Alexander Seger has been with the Council of Europe (Strasbourg, France) since 1999. He is Head of the Cybercrime Division and in that function he is the Executive Secretary of the Cybercrime Convention Committee in Strasbourg as well as Head of the Cybercrime Programme Office of the Council of Europe in Bucharest, Romania (www.coe.int/cybercrime).
Prior to this he headed for many years the Economic Crime Division where he was responsible for the Council of Europe’s cooperation programmes against, corruption, organised crime, cybercrime and money laundering. From 1989 to 1998 he was with what now is the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime in Vienna (Austria), Laos, Pakistan and Afghanistan, and a consultant for German Technical Cooperation (GTZ) in drug control matters.
Alexander Seger is from Germany and holds a PhD in political science, law and social anthropology after studies in Heidelberg, Bordeaux and Bonn.
Sessions auxquelles Alexander Seger participe
Mardi 5 Avril, 2022
Session in English interpreted into Italian / Sessione in inglese con la traduzione in italianoIn an increasingly interconnected world, highly inter-dependent, dealing with the challenges of the modern data-driven and digital world, though bringing tremendous benefits for our economies and societies, also becomes increasingly challenging for privacy and the protection of personal data.
Jeudi 7 Avril, 2022
Mercredi 14 Mai, 2025
At the end of 2024, the United Nations gave consensus final approval to a new multilateral Convention Against Cybercrime. The Convention obliges State Parties to criminalize a range of cyber-dependent offenses and to assist each other in obtaining electronic evidence for criminal investigations and prosecutions. The UN Convention has many similarities to – but also some differences from -- the Council of Europe (COE) Cybercrime Convention (Budape...