Noël Klima

Noël Klima is Research Coordinator at the Institute for International Research on Criminal Policy (IRCP) and coordinator of the interdisciplinary consortium on societal impact IDC Crime, Criminology & Criminal Policy at Ghent University, where he also leads its work on knowledge transfer, capacity building and societal impact. He is co-founder and lecturer at RadiLab – UGent Impact Lab for Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism (P/CVE), is part of the scientific advisory board of the Hannah-Arendt Institute, and is member of PIXLES and i4S – Smart Solutions for Secure Societies. Noël Klima has broad experience working at the interface of research, policy and practice in different organisations at national and international level.

He previously served as Programme Management Officer for the P/CVE-programme at the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute – UNICRI in Rome, Italy. He also worked for several years at the Belgian Federal Public Service Home Affairs, DG Security and Prevention as Deputy Head of the Unit Radicalism in Brussels and as Coordinator of the Secretariat of the European Crime Prevention Network (EUCPN).

Noël Klima received his PhD in Criminology Master’s degree in European Criminology and Criminal Justice Systems from Ghent University and studied law at the Westfälische Wilhelms-University Münster (DE), University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne (FR) and Radboud University Nijmegen (NL). Noël Klima is a trainer for Science for Policy (Joint Research Centre’s ToT-programme) and Research Impact.