Céline C. Cocq

Dr. Céline C. Cocq is a legal officer at one of the Juridiction interregional spécialisée (JIRS) in France. Her expertise covers traditional security issues and transnational criminal matters at the regional and international levels: counterterrorism, cooperation mechanisms, data sharing, armed conflicts and human/humanitarian law. She holds a PhD in law delivered jointly by the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and the University of Geneva. She also holds a LL.M. in public international law (ULB, 2012), a Master II in international humanitarian law (University of Aix-Marseille, 2010) and University Diplomas in criminology and criminal justice (University of Lille II, 2005 and 2011). Besides her experience as a legal and policy analyst at the benefit of European institutions, she has worked in public institutions dealing with counterterrorism, serious transnational crime and human rights, such as the UNODC Regional Office in Southeast Asia and the Pacific, Europol, French Embassy and tribunal.