Michèle Coninsx of Belgium was sworn in on 6 December 2017 as the new Executive Director of the Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate (CTED). Secretary-General António Guterres administered Ms. Coninsx’ oath of office.
Ms. Coninsx had most recently served as President of Eurojust, the European Union agency tasked with dealing with judicial cooperation in criminal matters. Joining CTED at the rank of Assistant Secretary-General, Ms. Coninsx took over from Jean-Paul Laborde of France.
CTED became fully staffed in September 2005 and was formally declared operational in December 2005. CTED’s mandate was extended until the end of 2021 by Security Council resolution S/RES/2395 (2017).
CTED comprises some 40 staff members, about half of whom are legal experts who analyze the reports submitted by States in areas such as legislative drafting, the financing of terrorism, border and customs controls, police and law enforcement, refugee and migration law, arms trafficking and maritime and transportation security. CTED also has a senior human rights officer.
CTED is divided into two sections: an Assessment and Technical Assistance Office (ATAO), which is further divided into three geographical clusters to enable the experts to specialize in particular regions of the world, and an Administrative and Information Office (AIO).
In addition, five technical groups work horizontally across ATAO to identify issues and criteria for making assessments in their particular area of technical expertise and then disseminate these across the three clusters. The groups deal respectively with technical assistance; terrorist financing; border control, arms trafficking and law enforcement; general legal issues, including legislation, extradition and mutual legal assistance; and finally, issues raised by resolution 1624 (2005); as well as the human rights aspects of counter-terrorism in the context of resolution 1373 (2001).
Across AIO, there is also a quality control unit to improve the technical quality and consistency in language and format of CTED documents and a public communications and outreach unit to strengthen its outreach activities.
In support of the Committee’s work on resolution 1624 (2005), CTED has prepared two reports (S/2006/737 and S/2008/2) summarizing the responses submitted thus far by about half of the United Nations membership.
Secretary-General Antonio Guterres swears in Michèle Coninsx (Executive Director, Counter-Terrorism Executive Directorate)
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Under resolution 1535 (2004), the Security Council established the Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate (CTED) to assist the work of the CTC and coordinate the process of monitoring the implementation of resolution 1373 (2001).
