Security Management in Hazardous Environments

Carolin Alvermann is a trained judge and lawyer of German nationality and is practicing as an attorney-at-law in Geneva, Switzerland, and in Stuttgart, Germany. She is currently working on cases related, inter alia, to labor law and to the law of the international civil service, some of which are brought before international tribunals such as the Administrative Tribunal of the International Labor Organization and the European Court of Human Rights.

As a former legal adviser with the International Committee of the Red Cross, at its headquarters in Geneva as well as in Iraq (2004) and in Afghanistan (February 2005), she has extensive experience in the law of armed conflict and international security issues. She has co-authored the study on “Customary international humanitarian law” (Cambridge University Press, 2005), and did extensive research on accountability, reparation, immunity and human rights. She has given lectures in international law and EU-law, contributed to a commentary on the law of the European Union, and served with the Legal Section of the United Nations Office at Geneva.

Per Jonsson started off as a computer programmer but found another calling and now works as a training and project officer for the Folke Bernadotte Academy. He holds a bachelors degree in peace and conflict studies and is pursuing a master’s degree in political science. He has undergone training for international emergency relief work by the Swedish Rescue Services Agency and the center for disaster medicine at Umeå University. 

Dennis Kullman is working as Equal Opportunities Specialist at the Director General’s Office at the Swedish Rescue Services Agency. He has a Bachelor of Arts in Literature and Bachelor of Law. He also has studied Political Science and Gender. In his BA of Law he is specialized in Labor Law, Sex Equality and EU-law. Dennis Kullman has worked as a research officer at the Equal Opportunities Ombudsman’s office, with the active measures that the employers and the trade unions are required to cooperate. He has developed an education program for those organizations. 

For a couple of years he worked as gender expert at the County Administrative Board of Stockholm.

In his capacity as gender expert he has traveled around the world to inform companies, authorities and organizations about gender equalities issues. He has been a member of several EU-projects. As a single parent to three children he has been interested in working with gender equality issues. 

Chris Sanderson is Director Government Support at Control Risks’ London headquarters.  He is responsible for advising governments, international organisations and humanitarian agencies on strategies to achieve their operational goals in complex and hostile environments, whilst effectively mitigating the risks to their people, information and physical assets.  He heads the delivery of Control Risks’ services to the UK Government in Iraq, Saudi Arabia and overseas embassies, and initiated the establishment of Control Risks’ Country Office in Afghanistan.  He oversees the provision of security support to a number of other major diplomatic and international clients.

Chris briefs senior politicians and civil servants on security and risk issues, and participates in international institution and think-tank discussions, particularly those relating to state-building operations in crisis regions and their legal and operational implications. 

Prior to joining Control Risks in 2005, Chris spent 30 years in the British Army, serving in his last appointment as a Colonel on the MOD’s Defence Intelligence Staff in Whitehall, acting as Chief of Staff for Defence Intelligence Collection, and leading on Intelligence capability development.  During his career, which focused primarily on intelligence, security, and operational planning and capability development support to operations, he deployed to the Balkans, Afghanistan, Iraq and Northern Ireland.  Throughout his time in the Army, Chris worked extensively with the UK’s intelligence and security agencies, and those of NATO and other nations, in particular the US. 

Chris was an Army Scholar, has a degree in Politics from Liverpool University, and is a graduate of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, the Royal Military College of Science Shrivenham and, as an Army student, the Royal Air Force Staff College Bracknell. He served as an instructor at the Army Staff College, Camberley.  He was awarded an MBE in the 1991 Gulf War Operational Awards.  He speaks some French, Spanish and German.