Paul Gillen, Chair
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Paul Gillen is the Chairperson of European Cybercrime Training and Education Group(ECTEG) at Europol.
Paul is a Board member of the European Union Cybercrime TaskForce (EUCTF) at Europol and head of delegation for Ireland on the Interpol Workingparty on IT crime- Lyon. Paul is the head of the Garda Síochána (Irish Police Service), Computer CrimeInvestigation Unit (CCIU), a specialised unit within the Garda Bureau of FraudInvestigation charged with investigating computer-related crime. A member of AnGarda Siochana since 1983, Paul has been working in the area of Computer crimeinvestigations since 1996. Paul holds a Master of Science degree from the School of Computer science andInformatics at UCD. Paul was the project manager on a Falcone Project co funded by the EU Commissionand the Irish Department of Justice and Law Reform, this project published three reportsone of which outlined the requirement for the development of cyber crime training forspecialist investigators within the EU. Paul was also the project manager on a further AGIS co-funded project in 2005/2006which has developed and delivered academically accredited training for cyber crimeinvestigators across the EU. Paul is also the chairman of the academic advisory board for the MSc degree for lawenforcement cyber crime investigators internationally at University College Dublin. Paul is also responsible for the training of Irish Police nationally in fraud and hi tech crimeinvestigation techniques. Paul is currently the project manager for the EU Commission project for the developmentof a Masters Degree in Forensic Computing and Cybercrime Investigation for lawenforcement within the EU. And was recently selected as part of the Irish Centre ofExcellence for Cybercrime under the EU funded 2CENTRE project. |
Giorgio Ruggieri, Vice-Chair
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Giorgio is member of Italian Carabinieri since 1990 and has been working in the Cybercrime investigation since 1998.In 2002 he joined the Reparto Indagini Tecniche (Technical Investigation Department) of Raggruppamento Operativo Speciale Arma dei Carabinieri whose aim is to investigate High Level Crimes. He contributed in many training processes for Law Enforcement in Italy and abroad.
He contributed to courses like Wireless investigations, Voice Over IP and Communication Channel monitoring. |
Nicola Dileone, Board member
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Special advisors
Joe Carthy, PhD, BSc
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Joe Carthy is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at UCD, where he has been a fulltime academic since 1984. Joe is currently Head of the UCD School of Computer Science and Informatics and Director of the UCD Centre for Cybercrime Investigation. Joe’s original research area was Intelligent Information Retrieval but in recent years he has changed his research direction to Forensic Computing and Cybercrime Investigation. He is also currently teaching a course in this area at UCD. Joe has previously supervised 9 PhD students and 17 M.Sc. students and he is currently supervising 4 PhD students. Joe has played an important role in a number of activities under the AGIS programme of the European Commission (Directorate General Justice, Liberty and Security) in the area of Cybercrime Training and was Programme Manager for one AGIS programme in 2005-2006. He is also actively involved in an ongoing major ISEC project in Cybercrime Training, also working with DG Justice, Liberty and Security. Joe is actively involved in the EU 2CENTRE project which aims, with the support of the European Commission and major Information Technology companies to build an international Cybercrime Centres of Excellence Network for Training, Research and Education. He has lectured on a wide range of computing courses and has published a popular textbook on Computer Architecture. He is also the author/co-author of over 80 scientific papers. Joe has led research and training projects valued at more than €4.6 million. |
Robin Bryant
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Dr Robin Bryant is Director of Criminal Justice Practice (CJP) at Canterbury Christ Church University. Dr Bryant advises ECTEG on high-tech crime investigation training, took part in the consultation on ‘Core Investigative Doctrine’ (Centrex, 2004), was a Convenor for the International Police Executive Symposium (May, 2008), undertook an evaluation of High Tech Crime Investigation training for NSLEC (2003-2006), was Chair of the panel evaluating Estonian higher education provision in Policing, Prisons and Legal Services, (2005 and 2009) and evaluated European High Tech Crime Investigation training, (2006-2007). He has attracted funding from both Agis (EC) and Leonardo da Vinci (EC) for research into police training (with the former focusing on cybercrime investigation). He has published in the areas of digital crime, police investigation and police training. His edited publications include the best-selling ‘Blackstone’s Student Police Officer Handbook (Oxford University Press), now in its sixth edition, ‘Investigating Digital Crime’ and ‘Understanding Criminal Investigation (both for John Wiley and Sons). He is currently editing ‘Policing Digital Crime’ for Ashgate Publishers. Dr Bryant has also undertaken funded research into the introduction of dispersal areas (countering anti-social behaviour), restorative justice in prisons, ‘binge’ drinking and the introduction of a national Police ‘Wiki’ in the UK. Dr Bryant’s tributes include Certificates of Appreciation from Kent Police (2003, 2007); the Police Service of Northern Ireland (2000) and the Estonian Higher Education Accreditation Centre (2005, 2009). |
Cheryl Baker
Nigel Jones
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Jean-Christophe Le Toquin
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Mikael Lindstrom
Jaap van Oss
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Valentin Gatejel
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