Mr. Barend Cochez, Federal Crisis Center Belgium

Police liaison officer and operational coordinator of the CBRNe expertise Center (National Crisis Center Belgium), Detective and first Chief Inspector. Former team leader at Brussels Federal Judicial Scientific Police. He assumed the role of Forensic Incident Commander during the Brussels airport bomb attacks and central station bombing. Forensic Incident Commander (participant) during the Belgian exercise of the EU GIFT CBRN project (2017). He also participated for the Belgian National Crisis Center at the H2020 Biogarden exercise (2018) and the BeLife CBRNe terrorism exercise (2019). Ho obtained the Certificate in National Counter Terrorist Forensic Management – SO15 – UK. Member of EU DG ECHO CBRNe Task Team and advisory board member within several EU projects.