Author: Johann Wagner

Dr. Johann Wagner is a senior expert in the areas of strategic security management, public administrative law, police management, border security and management, criminology, fight against cross-border organised crime, risk analysis, counter-terrorism and foreign terrorist fighters, cybercrime and artificial intelligence in the context of transnational threats and fight against cross-border organised crime. Dr. Wagner has been a senior civil servant of the Bavarian Ministry for Internal Affairs (senior police officer) since 1979. He has worked in all relevant areas and departments of the Bavarian Police and Border Police, both in mid- and senior level. Due to his outstanding professional expertise, Dr. Wagner was continuously seconded as a senior adviser and an expert to international organisations since 1998. He worked for the European Union and with its agencies (Europol, Frontex), EU Commission and its delegations in various countries, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), United Nations (here peace keeping missions, UNODC, UNOCT, ICAO), NATO, INTERPOL, and with other supranational organisations. He has sound and proven academic education and working experience in evaluation and monitoring processes related to public policies and administration systems, institution and capacity building, project management and implementation, policy drafting, strategy and action plan drafting.