• Bio

    Odd Berner Malme is a peace and security professional who has enjoyed a distinguished career spanning the Norwegian security sector. He is currently an international expert with the CIDS. Malme graduated from the Norwegian Police Academy in 1970 and has since held several leadership positions, including Assistant Director General in the Ministry of Justice, Assistant Commissioner of Police, and Deputy National Police Commissioner of Norway. He has also gained extensive international experience from working abroad. He was Special Adviser for the United Nations International Independent Investigation Commission (UNIIIC) in Lebanon, Minister Councellor at the Permanent Mission of Norway to the UN in New York, Senior Adviser and funding member of The Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime, and Head of Law Enforcement OSCE Mission to Serbia. Malme has also taken on a number of special assignments, including Head of Project for the National Schengen Information System (SIS), Head of Project Milestone for the National Project Combating Heroin Trafficking from Afghanistan, and served as member of the International Police Advisory Committee to the UN. As Deputy National Police Commissioner (2001 – 2007) he was engaged in leadership of the biggest reform ever in the Norwegian Police Service.
    Malme is a graduate of the FBI National Executive Institute (2005).