Ms. Monika Weber is a holder of Doctoral Degree in Criminal Law with more than 27 years of professional experience in the field of migration and border management. The first 12 years of her career Ms. Weber spent with the Immigration and Border Police of the Czech Republic, finishing as the Deputy Head of Immigration and Border Police in Prague and Middle Bohemia. Her portfolio ranges from border management, immigration issues and document security to gender in border management and combatting trafficking in human beings. Since 2003 she has also been performing the trainer duties on criminal law, immigration and documents security, training of trainers, developing the tailor made training manuals/curricula, as well as the distance learning e-tools. For more than 10 years Ms. Weber worked as a Project Manager at ICMPD being responsible for implementation of border management projects in different regions. Since 2020, Monika works as Senior Advisor on Border Management and Security at ICMPD, providing expertise on integrated border management, in particular on document security and gender in border management, in countries of the Eastern Partnership, Central Asia, Western Balkan, Silk Routes, Middle East as well as the Sub-Saharan Africa.
Language skills: Czech, Slovak, English, German, Russian