Intelligence and Security Specialist

• Designed and implemented projects in Kosovo and Bosnia and Herzegovina on security sector reform and community safety.
• Engaged in strategic planning for Saferworld's work in South Eastern Europe.
• Published several articles and research and recommendations reports on Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, security sector reform, and intelligence.
• Frequently advocated for the sustainable development of the security sector in Kosovo and Bosnia and Herzegovina through targeted briefings with key stakeholders, including Prime Ministers, senior advisors, government institutions, European Union officials, and international organisations.
• Assisted the politically-sensitive police reform process in Bosnia and Herzegovina on the issue of community-based policing.
• Co-ordinated and participated in an analysis of conflict drivers in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
• Built the capacity of local, non-governmental partner organisations in Kosovo and Bosnia and Herzegovina in dealing with security policy, public safety and small arms control issues.
• Based in Pristina from July 2006 to July 2007 before relocating to London headquarters.

• Designed, managed, monitored projects in the Kosovo security sector totalling more than US $5 million.
• Coordinated and supervised the work of project teams to ensure efficiency and consistency.
• Developed the strategy for and the implementation of the Internal Security Sector Review.
• Acquired thorough knowledge of issues and challenges related to the security situation in Kosovo and received daily security incident reports.
• Established strategic partnerships on security sector reform and institution building.
• Helped design capacity building and training programmes for police and security personnel.
• Drafted concept papers, project documents, budgets, reports, and liaised with donors for reporting and resource mobilisation, successfully securing more than US $3 million.
• Frequently provided briefings to small and large groups as well as to the SRSG and the Prime Minister.
• Implemented the high-profile, politically-sensitive KCAP project assessing Kosovo's administrative capacity to manage all the functions of an autonomous entity.

• Worked on high-profile cases within multi-disciplinary teams.
• Participated in strategic discussions to identify the most effective approaches to complex cases.
• Provided clients with detailed legal opinions, both in English and French.
• Represented high-level clients in front of various levels of courts.
• Performed highly-specialised research and report drafting.
• Worked most of the time under high pressure and with tight deadlines.

• Assisted in the management and the expansion of a worldwide network of recruiting agents.
• Worked on the global database of international applicants.
• Created new tools and procedures to dramatically increase the speed of data entry and to maximise the potential of the database while minimizing the risks of errors.

• Undertook comprehensive research mandates for government lawyers in matters related to public and administrative law.
• Took part in strategic discussions for the management of high-profile matters including the case to defend the constitutional validity of an important administrative tribunal.

• Three-day intensive practical course presented by the Global Facilitation Network for Security Sector Reform (GFN-SSR) and the Security Sector Development Advisory Team (SSDAT).
• Experts' presentations and cases studies addressed defence, penal and justice reform, reform of intelligence services, disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration, and small arms and light weapons.

• MA dissertation entitled The Missing Agency: The Case for a Canadian Foreign Intelligence Service.
• Wrote more than fifteen research papers, including an in-depth political and strategic assessment of Syria.
• Courses included Middle Eastern Security, Past and Present of US Intelligence and British Intelligence in the Second World War.

 Diploma

• Theoretical and practical formation leading to a license to practice law.
• Called to the Québec Bar in May 2003.

 Diploma

• Participated in exchange programmes to attend the University of Western Ontario (London, Canada) and the Université de Montréal (Montréal, Canada).
• Courses included Public International Law, Immigration and Refugee Law, International Conflict Resolution (MA level), and International Trade Law.

 Diploma

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