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Head of Strategy and Outreach, European Migrant Smuggling Centre, Europol
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Andy Smith
Director, Global Government & Industry Relations, Border Management & Immigration Services, SITA
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Angeliki Aloupi
Director of the Committee of Prevention and Management of Social Exclusion – Hellenic Community for
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Angelisa Corbo
Border Adviser, OSCE
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Brian Cooper
President & Chief Operating Officer, Global GRAB Technologies
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Capt Junaid Abdullahi
Exeuctive Secretary, Border Communities Development Agency, Nigeria
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Director, Innovative Travel Solutions, Vancouver Airport Authority
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Dinush Frings
Chief Operations Officer, European Association for Biometrics
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Dr Olomu Babatunde Olukayode
Deputy Comptroller of Customs, Nigeria Customs Service
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Dr. Aikaterini Poustourli
Scientific/Technical Officer, Capacity Building, IHU-ΔΙΠΑΕ, Greece
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Florian Forster
Head, Immigration and Border Management (IBM), Department of Migration Management (DMM), Internation
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Gerald Tatzgern
Head of Central Service Combating Human Smuggling and Human Trafficking, Ministry of Interior, Crimi
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Guido Ferraro
Project Leader, Transport and Border Security Unit, Joint Research Centre, European Commission
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Heiko Werner
Head of Security Group, Federal Office for Migration and Refugees, Germany
Helio Freixial
Smart Borders (EES – ETIAS) national project manager, SEF – Portuguese Immigration and Borders Servi
IT Project Manager in the area of borders, immigration and asylum, from
Inesa Nicolaescu
Associate Border Security Officer, Transnational Threats Department | Border Security and Management
Iryna Sushko
Executive director, Europe without barriers, Ukraine
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James Garcia
Assistant Director – Global Targeting Advisory Division, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, U.S.A.
James Nye
Assistant Chief Constable, Devon & Cornwall Police, UK
Jim has been a serving police officer in Devon and Cornwall Police
Jose Bondía
Head of National Coordination Centre - EUROSUR, Guardia Civil, Spain
Lieutenant Colonel Jose Bondía works as head of the National Coordination Centre
Judith Knopfli
Program Manager, International Organization for Migrations (IOM), Niger
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Karel Pelan
Assistant Director, Terrorist Networks Sub-Directorate, Counter-Terrorism Directorate, INTERPOL
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Archaeologist, Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports, General Directorate of Antiquities and Cultu
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Kingsley Nna
Senior Special Assistant to Abia State Governor on Niger Delta Affairs
Comrade Kingsley Nna is the Senior Special Assistant to Abia State Governor
Manoj Kumar
Second in Command, Border Security Force, India
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Matus Kapusta
Business Unit Director, Innovatrics
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Mile Milenkoski
Senior Counsellor, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Republic Of North Macedonia
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Nelson Goncalves
Senior IBM Specialist and Manager of the IOM African Capacity Building Centre, IOM, Tanzania
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Nicolas Phan
Market Manager Border Control and Passenger Flow Facilitation, IDEMIA
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Olasunkanmi John Oba
Nigerian Representative, AU-ECOSOCC
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Olivier Onidi
Deputy Director General, Directorate-General Migration and Home Affairs, European Commission
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Orfeas-Konstantinos Sotiriou
Expert in Antiquities Smuggling Phenomenon/Cultural Heritage Protection and National School for Publ
Paul Bazzano
Vice President of Sales & Business Development, Global GRAB Technologies
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Peter Campbell
Assistant Director: British School at Rome
Peter Nilsson
Police Commissioner, Head of Airpol, Europe
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Radu Pop
Head of Sales, Infrastructure and Frontier Security Solutions, Airbus Defence and Space
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Rear Admiral Ashraful Hoq Chowdhury
Director General, Bangladesh Coast Guard Force
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Rein Süld
Program Manager, Information Technology & Development Center Estonian Ministry of the Interior (SMIT
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Rocco Messina
Head of the Border Security and Management Unit, United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism, Counter
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Sean Buckley
Program Director, Parsons
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Senior Chief Inspector Hans-Peter Wagner
Project Manager for International Cooperation, Federal Police, Germany
Hans-Peter Wagner has been a member of the Federal Police in Germany
Tasiu Sanusi Saulawa
Deputy Superintendent, Nigeria Customs Service
Tatiana Kotlyarenko
Adviser on Anti-Trafficking Issues, Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights at the Organ
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Tony Stefan Mihaitoaia
Senior Border Management and Security Adviser, International Centre for Migration Policy Development
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Valdecy Urquiza
Assistant Director, INTERPOL, France
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MSc of Laws, International Law and Legal Studies, National School for Public Administration and Loca
From 2019 until today, she has been a Student at the National
Vladimir Pivovarov
National Coordinator, National Coordinative Centre for Integrated Border Management, North Macedonia
1992-1995 Chef of Regional Police – Kumanovo
1997-1999 Adviser of Ministry of Education
2002-2005