eric vincken

Acting Director at Center for International Legal Cooperation (CILC)

Maastricht, Limburg, Netherlands

About

Senior project management position. More then 20 years of experience in international (legal) cooperation. Focus on South Eastern and Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Indonesia. Management position in NGO. Specialties: Legal reform, project and programme management

Experience

  • Center for International Legal Cooperation (23 yrs 8 mos)
    • Acting Director
      Sep 2025 - Present · 10 mos

    • Deputy Director
      Jan 2012 - Present · 14 yrs 6 mos

      Member of the board of directors of CILC. Development and management of EU funded Twinning projects, Service Contracts and Grants in the Western Balkans, as well as Netherlands Government funded TA projects in the Western Balkans. Project Leader on behalf of the Netherlands Ministry of Security and Justice in EU Twinning projects.

    • Senior Project Manager
      Nov 2002 - Present · 23 yrs 8 mos

      Development and management of numerous legal cooperation projects funded by the Netherlands Government, the European Union and other donors in the Western Balkans, Indonesia, Bulgaria, Georgia, Poland and Estonia in judicial training, training of legislative drafters, enforcement law and judicial officers, international cooperation in criminal law.

  • MS PL at Twinning projects
    2004 - 2016 · 12 yrs

  • International Project Advisor / Team Leader at UNDP / Ministry of Justice of Moldova
    Dec 1999 - Nov 2002 · 3 yrs

    Center for International Legal Cooperation / United Nations Development Program, Chisinau. Managing a Moldovan-Dutch-Romanian legal cooperation project in the field of judicial training, reform of the public prosecution, institutional support to the Moldovan Judges Association and the Constitutional Court of Moldova. Initiated Moldovan-Dutch cooperation in prison reform.

  • Project Manager at Center for International Legal Cooperation
    Mar 1995 - Nov 1999 · 4 yrs 9 mos

    Managing legal cooperation projects: on EU law with Moscow State University, Moscow State Academy of Law; development of model legislation for the Commonwealth of Independent States (model civil code, model bankruptcy law, model mortgage law, model criminal code and model criminal procedure code); drafting of the Armenian Civil Code, drafting of a General Administrative Law Act for Georgia; implementation of the new Civil Code of Georgia.