TNO/DRIVER+

Dr. Marcel van Berlo is a senior project manager at TNO (the Netherlands) in the field of human factors and security since 1993. Selected topics of interest are crisis management, disaster risk reduction, community resilience, urban security, team performance, training and serious gaming. He holds a Ph.D in Instructional Psychology and Technology from the University of Leuven (Belgium). From 2000-2005 he was coordinating the Team Training research group within TNO, from 2011-2014 he coordinated the Community Resilience product group, and from 2004-2017 he was a senior business developer in the field of human factors and security. Since 2017 Marcel is the Technical Coordinator of the European research project DRIVER+ and since 2019 the chair of the EARTO Security and Defence Research Working Group. He is member of the editorial board of the Dutch magazine ‘Secondant’ on public safety and security. 

IICT, BULGARIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES/DRIVER+

Todor Tagarev is a former Minister of Defence (2013). He has represented Bulgaria on EDA’s R&T Steering Board and the NATO Science and Technology Board. Currently he is Professor at the Institute of Information and Communication Technologies of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and leads its Centre for Security and Defence Management.  

EUROPEAN COMMISSION (DG HOME)

Dr. Philippe Quevauviller is Research Programming and Policy Officer at DG HOME. He started his career at the European Commission in 1989 as scientific officer at DG RESEARCH, then as policy officer at DG ENVIRONMENT (in charge of EU groundwater policies) in the years 2002-2008, and back to DG RESEARCH from 2008 to 2013 in the area of hydrometeorological hazards. He moved to the Secure Societies Programme in 2013, firstly at DG ENTERPRISE (2013) then at DG HOME (2015), where he is responsible for research programming in the area of Disaster Resilient Societies. Since 2014, he is coordinating the development of the Community of Users on Secure, Safe and Resilient Societies. 

Besides his work at the European Commission, he is also Associate Professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), a scientific writer and editor. He holds two PhDs (oceanography and environmental chemistry) and the highest French University degree (HDR). 

EUROPEAN COMMISSION JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE (JRC)

Dr. Montserrat Marín Ferrer joined the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) in 2002 as PhD Student coming from the Department of Ionizing Radiation Physics (Autonomous University of Bellaterra, Barcelona), where she worked as associated lecturer. She was appointed Technical Manager of the Illicit Trafficking Radiation Assessment Program (ITRAP+10), a program initiated by the European Union and the United States, in cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), that highlighted the importance of updated standards for nuclear security. Montserrat has worked in the field of Nuclear Emergency Preparedness and Response before being nominated Coordinator of the Disaster Risk Management Knowledge Centre (DRMKC). 

At the DRMKC she is currently dealing with actions meant to provide coordinated Scientific support for the efficient and coherent implementation of different policies and agreements in the context of Disaster Risk Reduction, such as the European Union of Civil Protection Mechanism and the Global Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction. 

ECORYS/DRIVER+

Agnese Macaluso is a consultant at Ecorys, a research and consultancy company, focused on (strategic) development, implementation and evaluation of public policy. She has experience on issues related to conflict prevention, urban violence and local governance, violent extremism and EU foreign relations.

Her areas of expertise are:  

• Coordination and implementation of projects in the domain of urban innovation, regional integration and security;  
• Coordinate acquisition of projects with EIB, European Commission, WORLD BANK, DFID; 
• Strategic planning within EU and international market.  

Previously, Agnese was a researcher at The Hague Institute for Global Justice under the Conflict Prevention Program and worked for the European External Action Service and Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She holds a Master’s degree in international Relations and European Studies from the University of Florence.