Monica den Boer

Professeur visiteur, Département d'études des relations internationales et diplomatiques de l’Union européenne

Monica den Boer (NL) is Academic Dean of the Police Academy of the Netherlands, Apeldoorn, and Professor in Comparative Public Administration, Police Academy Chair, at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Professor den Boer graduated from Tilburg University, Netherlands, and the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. Before joining the Police Academy, she was Managing Director at the Institute for European Law Enforcement Administration in Brussels (2002-03), Associate Professor of Public Administration at Tilburg University (1999-2002), Senior Lecturer for Justice and Home Affairs at the European Institute of Public Administration in Maastricht (EIPA, 1996-99) and a researcher in Leiden and Edinburgh.

She has published widely on Justice and Home Affairs cooperation in the EU, cross-border policing and organised crime, counter-terrorism, the Schengen Agreements, legal semiotics, as well as governance, accountability and information and communication technology. Her publications include Investigating Organised Crime in European Border Regions (with Spapens, 2002), Policing Europe: Theory, Law and Practice (with Anderson et al., 1995) and Policing Across National Boundaries (ed. with Anderson, 1994). At EIPA, she edited Controlling Organised Crime (with Doelle et al., 2000), Schengen Still Going Strong; Evaluation and Update (2000), Taming the Third Pillar (1998), Schengen, Judicial Cooperation and Policy Coordination (1998), Undercover Policing and Accountability from an International Perspective (1997), and The Implementation of Schengen (1997).