Ms. Anita Hazenberg assumed her current duties as the first Director of the Innovation Centre Directorate, INTERPOL Global Complex for Innovation in Singapore on 1 July 2017. In almost 40 years of her career in the Netherlands Police, Ms Hazenberg was involved in various operational duties across the Netherlands specializing in violence against women and children and international police cooperation. She progressed into the international foray to take up several trailblazing roles, including as the Director of the European Network of Policewomen (ENP); the first Programme Director 'Police and Human Rights' for the Council of Europe (France); the founder and first director of the School for Police Leadership; the first coordinator for International Strategic Alliances and Deployment of the Staff of the Dutch National Police Commissioner; and as the initiator and Conference Director of the global annual law enforcement think-tank consisting of top-level executives - Pearls in Policing. She holds a Master in Public Administration and Change Management.