Title
Head of Unit “International Coordination”
Company
Zollkriminalamt (Central German Customs Investigation Administration)
Bio

On the 1. August 1979 I started my career in the german customs administration. After I finalised the college for Higher Professional Training in Sigmaringen (degree of a bachelor of public finance) in 1982, I worked as a customs investigation officer in Düsseldorf, where I was responsible for the fight against customs offences, narcotics, endangered species and IPR-Fraud. In 1994 I moved to the Ministry of Finance, to the Investigation Department. In 1999 I joined the Drugs department in the Central Customs Investigation Office in Cologne as Head of Operations and Information systems.

In 2006 I took over the Unit “International Cooperation”. Our tasks are coordinating the activities of the different International Organisations. In addition my unit is also responsible for the project management in the field of Training measures and capacity building.

In 2014 I took over the responsibility of the EU-working group “Internet-Crime” (C@IC). Together with colleagues from 11 EU-Member-states we face the challenges of the Internet and try to find solutions to customs-related criminal acts by the use of the INTERNET. Our main activities are building up networks, cooperate with international organisations and assist other countries to set up structures to fight against Internet-Crime.