INTRODUCTION MONDAY ROLAND GENSON (GSC) Since 2007, Roland Genson is a Director in the General Secretariat of the Council of the European Union. He is currently assigned to DG 'Justice and Home Affairs' (JHA), in charge of 'Police and customs cooperation & Schengen'. From 1998 to 2007, on behalf of the Ministry of Justice of the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg, he assumed the coordination of JHA matters at the Brussels' Permanent Representation to the EU. Roland also occupied various functions in the Luxembourg law enforcement sector and was designated as a project manager to reorganize and merge Gendarmerie and Police. CHLOÉ BRIÈRE Chloé holds an LL.M. in European law (College of Europe, Bruges, 2009-2010, grade «very good») et d un master 2 «European economic law» (Sciences Po Paris, University of Strasbourg, grade «assez bien»). After working two years as an academic assistant in the legal department of the College of Europe, she is since July 2012 PhD researcher at the Institute for European Studies. Since September 2013, she is a member of the GEM PhD School, Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate «Globalisation, the EU & Multilateralism». LEGISLATIVE PROCEDURE AND WORKING STRUCTURE - SERGE DE BIOLLEY Now adviser in the cabinet of Joelle Milquet (minister of justice, Belgium) and scientific collaborator at the the Institute for European Studies of the Université Libre de Bruxelles. Past Adviser at the Belgian Ministry of Justice. JUDICIAL CONTROL IN THE EUROPEAN PENAL AREA - JUDGE LARS BAY LARSEN (ECJ) Mr. Bay Larsen holds degrees in political science and law from the University of Copenhagen. For several years he worked in the Danish Ministry of Justice. He was Judge at the Danish Supreme Court before becoming Judge at the Court of Justice in January 2006. CONFERENCE: FOREIGN FIGHTERS: TOWARDS A CRIMINAL LAW REVOLUTION? HANS NILSSON (GSC) Professor at the College of Europe since 1997. Head of Division, Judicial Cooperation, Council of the European Union since 1996. Many times head of Council of Europe expert missions to Central and Eastern European Countries, secretary to numerous committees of experts; Council of Europe and Council of the European Union representative to international organisations conferences. Author of books and articles on arbitration and anti-trust, computer crime, data protection, economic crime. GILLES DE KERCHOVE (EU CTC) He obtained his law degree at the Catholic University of Louvain in 1979 and later followed a Masters in Law at Yale Law School in 1984. He joined the European Commission in 1985 as an administrator in Directorate General IV for Competition. From 1986 to 1995, he worked for the Belgian government, as chief of staff of the deputy prime minister and various ministries.
In his role as director of JHA, he had central role in negotiations for Eurojust and the European arrest warrant. Since 2007, he is EU Counter-terrorism Coordinator. He was also Deputy Secretary of the Convention which drafted the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union from 1999 to 2000. CHRISTOPHE MARCHAND (Lawyer) Christophe Marchand is a specialised criminal law attorney based in Brussels, Belgium. He deals with complex and international cases including money laundering, murder, human trafficking, drug trafficking, terrorism, international humanitarian law and extradition. He has expertise in human rights and terrorism issues, especially in North Africa. Christophe qualified as an attorney in 1996 and is a partner at the law firm Jus Cogens in Brussels. JØRN VESTERGAARD (University of Copenhagen) Jørn Vestergaard is Professor of Criminal Law at the Law Faculty of the University of Copenhagen. He has published books and articles in Danish and English on a broad range of topics within the field of criminal and procedural law, including issues in European and international criminal law, anti-terrorism legislation, sentencing and criminal policy, law enforcement, police cooperation and police accountability. In 2012, he published a comprehensive textbook on Danish criminal law regarding sanctions and sentencing. In 2013, he published a second revised edition of a comprehensive textbook on crimes and other offences under Danish law. SABINE GLESS (University of Basel) Sabine Gless is a Professor for Criminal Law and Criminal Proceedings at the University of Basel since 2005. She earned a doctorate degree in law from the University of Bonn, completed a habilitation at the University of Münster, and worked at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law. Her research and writing encompasses various fields of criminal law and criminal procedure law as well as international criminal law, and in particular matters of judicial assistance and European criminal law. Her key interests therein especially lie with general principles of cross border cooperation in criminal matters. VALSAMIS MITSILEGAS (QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY) Valsamis Mitsilegas is Head of the Department of Law, Professor of European Criminal Law and Director of the Criminal Justice Centre at Queen Mary University of London. From 2001 to 2005 he was legal adviser to the House of Lords European Union Committee. His interests and expertise lie in the areas of EU law (with particular focus on the evolution of the Union into an Area of Freedom, Security and Justice), global security governance and human rights. TUESDAY POLICE COOPERATION CHRISTIAN KRASSNIG (COMMISSION) - JAROSLAW LOTARSKI (COMMISSION) Jaroslaw LOTARSKI works as a policy officer at the European Commission, Directorate-General for Migration and Home Affairs and his tasks cover notably data retention and law enforcement access to personal data. Previously, he worked as
legal officer at the Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs and as Head of complaints and legal advisor to the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS). Before joining the EU public service he was academic lecturer and researcher in European and French Public Law at the University of Sheffield, the European University Institute in Florence and the Institut d'études politiques in Toulouse. He holds a PhD in public law (Toulouse), two LL.M (Florence and Toulouse) and MSc in Economics (Toulouse). FROM CLASSIC JUDICIAL COOPERATION TO MUTUAL RECOGNITION + EAW ANNE WEYEMBERGH (PRESIDENT OF THE IEE) Graduated in Law (ULB, 1993-1st Class Honours), she holds a Master Degree in Public and Administrative Law (ULB, 1994-1 st Class Honours) and a Master Degree in International Law (ULB, 1995-1st Class Honours). She has completed a PhD in Law at the ULB (2003 Alice Seghers Price). She is a full time Professor at the ULB (Institute for European Studies). Together with Serge de Biolley, she has founded and coordinates the European Criminal Law Academic Network (ECLAN). In addition she is the coordinator of the IEE-ULB team on European criminal law. Since one year, she has been appointed as President of the IEE-ULB. KASPER VAN DER SCHAFT (PUBLIC PROSECUTOR ILAC) Public Prosecutor at the Internationaal Rechtshulp Centrum (IRC/International Legal Assistance Centre) in Amsterdam (NL) Responsible for the treatment of European Arrest Warrants (surrender within EU), extradition requests (outside EU) and international assistance requests. INÉS ARMADA (VUB-ULB) She graduated in Law at the University Complutense of Madrid in 2009. As a member of the Madrid s Bar Association she worked in a Spanish law firm specialized in criminal law for two years. She then obtained an LL.M in International Law at the Complutense University, completing her studies with an LL.M at the College of Europe. Following an internship at the European Parliament, she became a PhD researcher at the VUB and the ULB, under the cosupervision of Prof. Paul de Hert and Prof. Anne Weyembergh. She is also working at the European Criminal Law Academic Network (ECLAN). WEDNESDAY APPROXIMATION OF SUBSTANTIVE LAW+FINANCIAL CRIMES KATALIN LIGETI (UNIVERSITY OF LUXEMBURG) Ms. Ligeti holds a Masters of Law from the Fötvös Loránd University of Budapest and a PhD from the University of Hamburg. She teaches is an associate Professor of European and International Criminal Law at the University of Luxembourg. She teaches is an Asssociate Professor of European and International Criminal Law at the University of Luxembourg. SAMULI MIETTINEN (University of Helsinki)
APPROXIMATION OF PROCEDURAL LAW+SALDUZ DIRECTIVE STEVEN CRAS (GSC) 2001 Ongoing: Administrator - Justice and Home Affairs - Assisting notably the Presidency of the Council of Ministers of the European Union (justice and home affairs) in achieving concrete results, such as adoption of legislative texts, in the field of judicial cooperation in criminal matters. 1994 2000 Referendaire - Court of First Instance, Assisting two (Dutch) judges at the Court of First Instance. 1992 1994 - Advocaat - De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek (Advocaat-stagiaire in Brussel and Amsterdam) 1991 1992 - Master dans Law - College of Europe 1985 1991 - Law dans Rechten - Law - Universiteit Utrecht 1990 Jan - Feb: Siena; March - July: Università degli Studi, Bologna (Italy) ANNA HODGSON (COMMISSION) THURSDAY EUROJUST CATHERINE DEBOYSER (EUROJUST) Head of the Legal service of Eurojust. She was previously juge d instruction in Belgium. EUROPOL BART DE BUCK Senior Legal Officer, Europol, The Hague. OLAF EPPO JOHN AE VERVAELE (University of Utrecht) John Vervaele (1956) is full time professor of economic and European criminal law at Utrecht Law School (the Netherlands) and professor of European criminal law at the College of Europe in Bruges (Belgium). He is since September 2014 President of the oldest word organization for criminal justice (AIDP). His scholarly work is dealing with collar crime and economic offences and European criminal law and procedure. The main topics in his research field are: enforcement of Union law; standards of due process of law, procedural safeguards and human rights; criminal law and procedure and regional integration; comparative economic and financial criminal law; terrorism and criminal procedure. He has realized a lot of research in these areas, both for Dutch Departments and European Institutions and worked as well as a consultant for them. He is regularly teaching as visiting professor in foreign universities, in Europe, the US, Latin America and China. FRIDAY EXTERNAL DIMENSION - WOUTER VAN DE RIJT (GSC) Principal administrator, General Secretariat of the Council of the European Union - DG Justice and Home Affairs, he has worked for the EU Council since 1999. Prior to that, he worked for the Schengen Secretariat and before that, for the Dutch Parliament. DATA PROTECTION - PAUL DE HERT Currently, at Brussels, Paul De Hert holds the chair of 'Criminal Law', 'International and European Criminal Law' and 'Historical introduction to eight major constitutional systems'. He is Director of the VUB-Research group on human rights (HUMR), Director of the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of Law (Metajuridics) and core member of the Research group Law Science Technology & Society (LSTS). At Tilburg he holds a position as an associated-professor, teaching the course 'Privacy & Data Protection' in the
renowned Institute of Law and Technology at the Tilburg University. He is board member of several Belgian, Dutch and (other) international scientific journals such as The Computer Law & Security Review (Elsevier), The Inter- American and European Human Rights Journal (Intersentia) and Criminal Law & Philosophy (Springer). He is co-editor in chief of the Supranational Criminal Law Series (Intersentia) and of the New Journal of European Criminal law (Intersentia). NEGOTIATION EXERCISE GUY STESSENS (GSC) -