CURRICULUM VITAE

1. Family name: Hansen

2. First names: Kenneth Brant

3. Date of birth: 31-01-1970

4. Nationality: Danish

5.  Civil status: Married

6.  Education: Lawyer, LLM

Institution / Aarhus University, Denmark
Date: from (month/year):
to (month/year) / 9/1990
6 /1993
Degree(s) or Diploma(s) obtained: / BA Law
Institution / Aarhus University, Denmark
Date: from (month/year):
to (month/year) / 9/1993
1/1997
Degree(s) or Diploma(s) obtained: / MA Law
Institution / Edinburgh University, UK
Date: from (month/year):
to (month/year) / 9/1995
9/1996
Degree(s) or Diploma(s) obtained: / MA Law (LLM) in European Law

7. Language skills: (increasing competence from 1 to 5)

Language / Reading / Speaking / Writing
Danish / 5 / 5 / 5
English / 5 / 5 / 5
Greek / 5 / 4 / 3
French / 2 / 2 / 2

8. Membership of professional bodies: Member of the Greek Council for Refugees’ Lawyers Network

9. Other skills: Computer literate in Word, Excel, Databases and Internet research Sources.

10. Present Position: Resident Twinning Advisor

11. Years within the organization: 2 years

12. Key Qualifications:

·  Capacity of running an office and managing a project including the financial management.

·  Ability of coordinating large multi-faceted projects

·  Excellent promotion/presentation and communication skills.

·  Large experience in leading meetings incl. moderation of conferences, seminars etc.

·  Comprehensive analytic, researching and drafting skills

·  Supervision and coordination of external experts contributions to projects

·  Extended experience in providing training.

13. Specific Countries experience:

Country / Experience
United States / High School (studies)
United Kingdom / Master of Law (studies)
Italy / Language Studies
Denmark / Studies and work experience
Greece / Work experience
Latvia / Short term expert in Asylum project LV2001/IB-JH-01
Resident Twinning Advisor for Data Protection Project LV2006/IB/JH/03
Poland / Short term expert in Asylum Administration PL2002/IB/JH 02
Hungary / Resident Twinning Advisor for Integration Project HU2004/IB/JH/01

14. Professional Experience Record:

Date: from (month/year) to (month/year) / 4/1997
2/1999
Location / Copenhagen, Denmark
Company / The Danish Ministry of Interior/Immigration Service
Position / Section Responsible
Description / Acting Head of Section, responsible for decisions concerning family reunification, comments on law drafting, educational activities
Date: from (month/year) to (month/year) / 1 – 2002
2 - 2004
Location / Athens, Greece
Company / The Hellenic Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Position / Special Adviser to the Deputy Minister
Description / Legal and Political Adviser on issues of development assistance and bi-lateral economic relations.
Date: from (month/year) to (month/year) / 5/1999
8/2005
Location / Athens, Greece
Company / The Greek Council for Refugees
Position / Member of the Legal Assistance Unit
Description / Legal Protection Officer
Date: from (month/year) to (month/year) / 8/2005
03/2007
Location / Budapest, Hungary
Company / The Centre of International and European Economic Law
Position / Resident Twinning Advisor
Description / Overall responsibility of the implementation of European Transition Facility Project
Date: from (month/year) to (month/year) / 11/2007
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Location / Riga, Latvia
Company / The Centre of International and European Economic Law
Position / Resident Twinning Advisor
Description / Overall responsibility of the implementation of European Transition Facility Project

15. Other Relevant information

·  Short-term Expert, Phare Twinning Project, Poland (PL2002/OB/JH02). Issues dealt with: Integration of Refugees, media awareness and cooperation between the state and NGOs (2002-2003).

·  National Expert (Denmark) on a Database on Prosecutions and Investigations, AGIS Project, implemented by the Institute of Comparative Studies, London University (2004).

·  Short-term Expert, Phare Twinning Project Latvia on “Asylum and Migration Systems”, implemented in Latvia (2003-2004).

·  National expert (Denmark) on Civil Procedure, for project implemented by the Institute of Procedural Studies, Athens University (2003).

·  National Expert (Denmark) on Terrorism and Organised Crime, for project implemented by the Institute of Comparative Studies, London University (2002).

·  National Expert (Denmark) on National Criminal Records and Organised Crime, FALCONE project, implemented by the Institute of Comparative Studies, London University (2002).

·  Research on European developments in Spatial Planning, for Prof. Dr. D. Melissas (2001).

·  Article on Danish Foreign Policy after WWII, published in Foreign Issues (Exoterika Themata) (2004).

·  Chapter in Financial Crime in the EU, (Kluwer Law International, 2005)

·  Article on “The Process of making an Integration Strategy for Hungary” (published on the homepage of Center for International Relations, www.csm.org.pl , 2006)

16. Contact Address in the Member State, including telephone, fax and e-mail

Private Address:

Dimitrakopoulou 75

16673 Voula, Athens

Telephone: +30 210 8990839

Mobile: +30 6946 53 72 50

E-mail: