Ilkka Laitinen

Ilkka Laitinen

Ilkka Laitinen 2008 in Athens
Born 22 August 1962
Nurmes
Allegiance  Finland
Service/branch Finnish Border Guard
Years of service since 1982
Rank Brigade General
Other work Executive Director of Frontex

Ilkka Laitinen (born 22 August 1962 in Nurmes, Finland) is the Executive Director of Frontex, the European Union’s border protection agency.

He served in the Finnish Border Guard in 1982 and since 1985. He rose to the rank of colonel in 2004 and has held a wide variety of national and EU jobs. He was appointed as the first head of Frontex on 25 May 2005.[1]

References

  1. ↑ "Franco Frattini and Luc Frieden visit the External Borders Agency (Frontex) in Warsaw". http://europa.eu/''. 30 June 2005. Retrieved 18 March 2015. The Management Board of the Frontex Agency met for the first time in Warsaw, on 25 May 2005. [...] The Management Board, on the basis of the short list submitted by the Commission, appointed Colonel Ilkka LAITINEN of Finland as Executive Director of the Agency.