Céline Cocq is a virtual visiting research fellow at UNU-CRIS.
Dr. Céline C. Cocq is a legal expert in justice and home affairs in regional and interregional settings. She holds a PhD in law delivered jointly by the Université libre de Bruxelles and the University of Geneva, in which she analyses regional and interregional cooperation in counterterrorism-related matters, with a specific focus on the EU and ASEAN.
She has acted as a legal and political analyst for several EU and UN funded actors. More recently, she worked for the French Ministry of Justice dealing in turn with complex and serious offences and the prevention of terrorist acts. She is currently a JSPS postdoctoral fellowship at Waseda University where she pursues her research on cross border cooperation against serious transnational crime in Southeast Asia and the Pacific, with a focus on the role of Japan in the region and its collaboration with the EU in this matter.
During her visiting research fellowship at UNU-CRIS, Céline Cocq will primarily work on regional and interregional cooperation mechanisms in criminal matters and on the development of a methodological matrix for further studies in legal – with a touch of interdisciplinarity - comparative regionalism and interregionalism in close collaboration with Frank Mattheis within the Re-LAB Cluster.