CAPACITY TRAINING INTERNATIONAL - Key Persons
Chris Boyd is a former United Nations Police Director and Acting Deputy Police Commissioner, responsible for the administration of 11,000 international and local national police in Kosovo, at the time, the largest UN Policing Mission in the world supported by Police contingents from 52 contributing States. During his United Nations tenure, Chris oversaw the inception and development of the Kosovo Police Service, where the International Police Training Centre also fell under his remit. Due to his time in the United Nations Mission in Kosovo, and having been responsible for liaising with UNHQ and the contributing Member States, Chris retains relationships with a number of Senior Police Commanders from around the world.
On completing his service with the Royal Ulster Constabulary in Northern Ireland, Chris worked as the Training Manager for an international training foundation managing and designing a Human Rights (VPSHR) based security-training project in conjunction with the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline on behalf of BP. Chris has similarly managed VPSHR training projects in Papua New Guinea for Barrick Gold and Ghana for Tullow Oil, and was engaged as a Human Rights Consultant reviewing tactical training materials for the Police Service of Northern Ireland.
For several years Chris initially managed security, and then managed community and government relations for a Canadian Oil and Gas Exploration and Production company in Iraqi Kurdistan, before assuming a general management position with the company. He was also their corporate lead on the Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights implementation across the company's operations.
Chris holds a Master's degree in Law (LLM) with merit, having completed his Master's dissertation in ‘Transnational Corporate Human Rights Accountability'. Chris also holds a Post-Graduate Certificate in Human Rights and Development Management with Distinction, and a certificate and postgraduate diploma in professional management. Chris is a Fellow of the Institute of Leadership and Management (UK).