Patrick Nopens

Brigadier General (Retd) Patrick Nopens was twice Belgian defence Attaché to Moscow and the CIS (2000-2004 and 2007-2009). From 2009 to 2015 he was a senior associate fellow at the Egmont Institute, focusing on CIS affairs. Since then, he nas become involved in preventing corruption in defence and security in working for NATO, Transparency International and the Defence Academy of the UK.