Live Webinar: Modus Operandi – Drugs & Illicit Goods

Mr. Bob Van den Berghe is a Law Enforcement Expert, Deputy Head, working for the UNODC Passenger and Cargo Control Programme (PCCP) in Vienna in Austria. PCCP is operational in more than in 86 countries. Bob brings a wealth of law enforcement expertise and experience, as well as a proven track record of implementing large scale projects in the Latin American and Caribbean region. For more than 25 years, Bob served in various positions in the national government and UNODC. He joined UNODC in 2014 as the Regional Coordinator in charge of implementing the CCP in Latin America and the Caribbean based in Panama. Before joining UNODC, Bob worked for the federal judicial Police in Belgium. From 2000 to 2014, he was part of the federal anti-narcotic team from the federal judicial Police at the Port of Antwerp in Belgium, considered the most important port in Belgium, and the second major commercial port in Europe. He has a lot of experience in international cooperation to improve port security, to fight organized crime and to assist the Governments to maintain and strengthen maritime, border and air container cargo controls so as to prevent illicit trafficking in narcotic drugs, precursor chemicals, biological, radioactive or nuclear (CBRN) materials, and other illicitly trafficked goods such as protected wildlife and contraband.

- Senior Field Contingent Officer European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex)
- Cross-Border Crime Detection Officer European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex)
- Operational Coordination Officer European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex)

Formerly Lieutenant Colonel at Royal Netherlands Marechaussee (RNM military and borderpolice, Willem Mudde is current Director of MAPS international and consultant at the Center for International Legal Coorperation (CILC) for a project in West Balkan countries.
Relevant working experiences are; former Head of PIU Netherlands and Head of the Targeting Center Borders of the Royal Netherlands Marechaussee, as well as previously studied Project and Program Management at The Hague University of Applied Siences and recently completed the IATA training on API and PNR.
Willem is also Vice President of the European Association of Airport & Seaport Police.

Editor of Border Security Report and Director of the World Border Security Congress