Philippe RIO (Brigadier General, National Gendarmerie General Inspectorate) (57 years old, married, 2 sons) After literary studies, Philippe RIO entered the Saint-Cyr Army academy in 1980, and the National Gendarmerie officers’ academy of Melun in 1982, to head to a Gendarmerie Officer career. During 37 years of duties in the Gendarmerie and other civilian and military institutions, including 18 years dedicated to international cooperation and crisis management, he had the opportunity to cumulate various police and crisis management experiences. He was in command of several police units in mobile and territorial gendarmerie: - Mobile Gendarmerie platoon, performing public security and crowd control tasks, - Republican Guard company, providing security to the Parliament and Constitutional Council, - District and Province level territorial units, organising and directing community policing, public security, road safety and criminal investigation in favour of hundreds of thousands inhabitants. As head of the drug enforcement section in the Criminal Investigations Department of the National Gendarmerie General Directorate, he developed a drug prevention and enforcement strategy and conducted the deployment of criminal analysis techniques and tools at national level. He had the opportunity to develop, deliver and manage training programs as the Crisis Management Operations Planning professor in the French Joint Forces Defence College, teaching to 300 senior officers from 30 countries. He developed his international skills and experiences in different environments: - in NATO military Headquarters (SHAPE), he started as assistant legal advisor and then called to manage an intelligence challenge, transferring police intelligence analysis tools into military intelligence systems and developing a training program in support of SFOR and KFOR; - in the French permanent representation to the EU (2006-2009), as a Justice and Home Affairs Counsellor, also responsible for interaction between internal and external security, he participated to the preparation and conduct of the French presidency, including the chairing of Council working groups; - in the French Ministry of Interior, he was incumbent for the crisis prevention and crisis management issues in the “International and European affairs delegation”, a small structure attached to the Minister's Cabinet; - in the European Union delegation to Libya as police advisor in 2012, he coordinated EU and Members States police cooperation issues and supported the EU ambassador and the EEAS in the final phase of EUBAM Libya preparation. Before his assignment as senior project manager in the French national gendarmerie general inspectorate, he was successively: - responsible for the gendarmerie external military relations (2013-2015), including the preparation and conduct of the French presidencies of the EUROGENDFOR High Level Interdepartmental Committee (CIMIN) for 2014 and of the Association of European and Mediterranean gendarmeries (FIEP) for 2015, - EUROGENDFOR Commander (2015-2017). He has a diploma in literary studies, a master in political sciences, and is graduated from the Joint Defence College Senior Command Course. He is an alumni of the National Defence Advanced Studies Institute (regional session of Montpellier in 2003), and of the European Security and Defence College “Common Security and Defence Policy high level course” (2010-2011)..