2 law degrees; research fellow; long career in different national and
international law enforcement organisations: senior officer in the German
Federal Criminal Police Office (head of crime investigation department);
different law enforcement functions in the structure of the European Union
and ICPO-Interpol; Founding Director of Europol Drugs Unit 1992 to 1999
and first Director of Europol 1999 to 2004; special representative of the
German Federal Ministry of Interior for the security cooperation with Gulf
States and other Near East countries; then head of the department police,
fire-brigades and public security in the Ministry of Interior of the
State Brandenburg;
since 2012 advisor to international organizations and governments, to German
public authorities and to private business for law enforcement and security
subjects; chairman of an academic advisory board on security and
compliance and member of a think tank for the German Federal Parliament;
author of and contribution to various books on penal law, law
enforcement and policing as well as of numerous articles for police
and law journals; lecturer on international penal law and law enforcement
cooperation.
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