Debates

  • Future of the border management in Europe including the role of Frontex

    Moderator: Paweł Świeboda – demosEuropa - Center for European Strategy

    Cecilia Malmström – Commissioner for Home Affairs
    Ilkka Laitinen – Frontex Executive Director
    Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba – Interior Minister of Spain
    Robert Strondl – Chairman of Frontex Management Board

  • Fundamental Rights in Border Management

    Moderator: Gil Arias – Frontex Deputy Executive Director

    Wolfgang Heinz – Member of CPT for Germany
    Morten Kjaerum – Director of European Agency for Fundamental Rights
    Volker Türk – Director, Division for International Protection Services of United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
    Bjarte Vandvik – Secretary General, European Council on Refugees and Exiles

  • Profile of the future border guards

    Moderator: Erik Berglund – Frontex Capacity Building Division Director

    Pentti Nikkanen - Adjunct Professor, Ph.D., Institute for Educational Research, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland
    Janet Firth - Principal Lecturer Head of HR, University of Wolverhampton Business School, UK
    Klaus Roesler – Frontex Operations Division Director

  • Border control

    Moderator: Edgar Beugels – Frontex Head of Research and Development Unit

    Frank Paul – Head of Unit, Large Scale IT Systems – DG1 JLS, European Commission
    Robert Mocny – Director US-VISIT, Department of Homeland Security TBC
    Tony Bunyan – Director, Statewatch

  • Interagency cooperation

    Moderator: Ilkka Laitinen – Frontex Executive Director

    Rob Wainwright – Director of Europol
    Willem de Ruiter – Executive Director of European Maritime Safety Agency
    Ferenc Bánfi – Head of European Police College
    Peter Widermann – Director General of International Centre for Migration Policy Development
    Eugenio Ambrosi – Senior Regional Advisor for Europe and Central Asia, External Relations Department, IOM
    Kai Skogstom – Chief Advisor to KP Border and Boundary Police, EULEX Kosovo