Foreign speakers information
Tom Bauwens
Tom Bauwens, Fellow of the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO), Research group Crime & Society (CRiS), Vrije Universiteit Brussel.
Short CV: Tom Bauwens graduated as a Master in Criminological Sciences at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in 2009. He subsequently worked on a policy supporting research project regarding ‘integrated local safety and security policy' in Belgium. As Fellow of the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO), he is currently working at the research group Crime & Society, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, where he is preparing a doctoral dissertation about the Flemish mayor's safety discourse.
Jan Budaj & Monika Bandurova
Jan Budaj:
Jan budaj is one of the tribunes of the Velvet Revolution, which played a significant part in overthrowing the former Communist regime. Since 1st of january Jan Budaj is Deputy Mayor in City of Bratislava, his main arreas of interest are participatory democracy, city police improvement, green movements and involvement of citizens into the urban planning process.
Monika Bandurova:
Works as advisor in Deputy Mayor´s office. Ms Bandurova is preparing materials and analysis in areas of deputy mayor interest. Before working in City Hall S. Bandurova worked in consulting company.
Charlotta Gustafsson
The main task for the unit of development of crime prevention is to stimulate and support crime prevention at a local level in Sweden.
Wolfgang Kahl
German Forum for Crime Prevention (DFK), senior police officer, functions: management of knowledge transfer (scientific to practical level), editor of a professional journal, coordinator of several projects, in particular a project to establish a quality management system for violence prevention programs.
Gregor Wenda
Gregor Wenda, Federal Ministry of the Interior, Austria.
Gregor Wenda was born and raised in Vienna. He is a graduate of the University of Vienna Law School (Magister iuris) and the University of Salzburg Management Business School (MBA).
Affiliation: Federal Ministry of the Interior (BM.I); Deputy Head of Department at the Directorate-General for Legal Affairs.
Secretary-General of the Austrian Society of Administrative Sciences; Editor of the Federal Ministry of the Interior's official magazine "Öffentliche Sicherheit"; Editor of the Austrian Security Academy Journal; Member of different legal associations; Author of numerous publications, commentaries, and articles.
Sebastian Sperber
Sebastian Sperber is programme manager with the European Forum for Urban Security a network of European town, cities and regions working together on urban security and crime prevention. He is currently working on safety audits, ethics and efficiency of surveillance technologies and the European certificate in urban security. Sebastian holds Master's degrees in political sciences and in economics from the Institut d'études politiques de Paris (France) and the University of Mannheim (Germany). Prior to joining Efus, Sebastian has been project manager at the Council of Europe, where he worked on social cohesion and local democracy.