Mark ReberMark Reber is a former member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police with over 20 years professional experience in policing and security sector reform.  His initial work was in the RCMP’s Internal Affairs Branch on internal disciplinary and conflict of interest investigations, public complaints and anti-corruption.  He then worked as an Executive Officer to a number of senior RCMP officers, and subsequently managed and led organizational change and renewal initiatives in areas including strategic planning, performance management and police labour relations.Prior to leaving the RCMP Mark was seconded to a number of international policing oversight agencies, initially for five years as Chief of Staff to the Oversight Commissioner for Policing Reform in Northern Ireland, and a subsequent eighteen months as Senior Inspector in the newly-formed Garda Síochána Inspectorate in Dublin, Republic of Ireland. His subsequent professional focus has been on leading policing reform and governance initiatives particularly in post-conflict locations including Colombia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Sierra Leone, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Somaliland among others. Mark has designed and managed investigative, analysis and operational strengthening initiatives for law enforcement and judicial agencies in Costa Rica, Botswana, Tanzania, Palestine, the Philippines and Egypt as well as most recently in Ukraine.He holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Management Practice from Ulster University and a Master of Arts degree in International Relations from the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs. Mark also holds Bachelor of Arts degrees in International Relations from Carleton University and in Political Science from the University of Toronto, and he is a certified United Nations Security Sector Reform Advisor and certified Organizational Assessor under the European Foundation for Quality Management. Since 2013 Mark has been a Visiting Professor at the School of Criminology, Politics and Social Policy, Ulster University, Belfast, Northern Ireland.