Catherine Piana is a Security and Insider Threat expert. For over 8 years, she has been the voice of Private Security in Europe and Aviation Security on an international level.In her position of Director General for both the Confederation of European Security Services (CoESS) and Aviation Security Services Association – International (ASSA-i), she has led a number of security initiatives, advocacy campaigns, EU-funded projects, standardisation projects and various publications.On behalf of CoESS, she was the coordinator of the EU-funded project AITRAP, which led to the creation of an e-learning platform on the Insider Threat in at the end of 2018, under the name of Help2Protect (H2P in short) with the support of Securitas, DHL and Palmyra Aviation Advisors. When the EU funds could no longer support the platform, Catherine and the AITRAP project manager, Hugo Lücke (Palmyra Aviation Advisors), took it over, updated and expanded it and set up the commercial company Help2Protect SRL.Catherine holds a Masters Degree in Translation (ISTI, Université Libre de Bruxelles), an MBA, a certificate in Counter Terrorism (Leiden University), is a Master Practitioner in Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP), and a certified Trainer and Coach.
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