Pablo Dreyfus ( 1969/70 – 1 June 2009 ) was an Argentine arms control expert that worked in South America , particularly Brazil , to help end the illegal weapons trade prevalent in South America . His work as a consultant and opinion as an expert in his field was in demand worldwide years before the time of his death , in the crash of Air France Flight 447 . Dreyfus encouraged better accounting of weapons to prevent them falling into the hands of criminal organizations . He pushed for legislation requiring stricter controls on the labelling of ammunition . He raised the alarm about practices that facilitated arms smuggling in Argentina , Brazil , Paraguay and Venezuela , which led to legislation in Brazil . He supported the development of anti-gunrunning security in Mozambique , Angola , El Salvador and other countries . Following the theft of grenades from an Argentine military garrison in 2006 , Dreyfus remarked " If a supermarket can keep control of the amount of peas it has in stock , surely a military organization could and should be able to do the same with equal if not greater efficiency with its weapons . The key words are logistics , control , security . " Born in Buenos Aires , Dreyfus got his PhD in International Relations at the Institut Universitaire de Hautes Études Internationales ( Graduate Institute of International Studies ) where his emphasis was Transnational Crime patterns . At 2009 , he was the research coordinator of the Small Arms and Light Weapons cluster in a local NGO in Rio , Associate Professor of the Superior Institute of Religious Studies , consultant of Small Arms Survey , senior researcher and professor of the Latin American Social Sciences Institute ( FLACSO ) and coordinator of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung ( FES ) Brazilian think tank of regional security . Dreyfus became better known in the English-speaking world for his work for Viva Rio
Air France Flight 447
Air France Flight 447
Pablo Dreyfus