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    "code": "9VXAD7",
    "name": "William De Meyer",
    "biography": "General William De Meyer has been a gendarmerie officer for more than 30 years.\r\nHe alternates between a carreer in France dealing with mainstream policing and assignments abroad.\r\n\r\n(i) Abroad and dealing with international cooperation :\r\n\r\n- he served in UN Missions :the IPTF (advisor to the  Ministers of the Interior) and the UNMIK (as deputy, then special advisor for  the 9 UN special police units) ;\r\n\r\n- he was police expert for the Palestine desk of the CPCC in the EEAS, before being appointed CPCC operational planner for EUAVSEC (South Sudan), EUCAP NESTOR (Horn of Africa) and EUBAM Lybia.\r\n\r\nMore recently he was head of the « world » under-directorate of the French Ministry of  European and Foreign Affairs bilateral  defence and security cooperation, and then special advisor for Gendarmerie and police cooperation.\r\n\r\n\r\n(ii) In France he was the Gendarmerie  Head of\r\n-          a mountaineering intervention platoon in the Pyrénées mountains (across the border with Spain);\r\n-          a general purpose policing district in Moselle, sharing borders with Germany and Luxembourg ;\r\n-          the Gendarmerie command of a Département (Yonne in Burgundy).\r\nHe was also appointed in the Gendarmerie CEPOL cell, and  organised courses as well as delivered several lectures on civilian crisis management and CSDP planning (Bramshill, Austria, Hungary).\r\n\r\nHe is now the special advisor to the Directeur Général de la Gendarmerie Nationale for European and international matters.\r\n\r\nGeneral De Meyer is a laureate of the Ecole de Guerre in Paris, and of the British police strategic commander course in Bramshill (NPIA, UK), he holds a taught PhD « Police et sociétés » from the political Institute of Toulouse (Fr.) and graduated from both the Gendarmerie commissioned officer course and the Military Academy of Saint-Cyr.",
    "submissions": [
        "C87R8G"
    ],
    "avatar": "https://conference.cepol.europa.eu/media/avatars/G%C3%A9n%C3%A9ral_DE_MEYER_SaJ3Rrb.jpeg"
}