Dr. Rainer Deville, 45 year-old judge at the Appeal Court in Düsseldorf, Germany, is the judicial training expert on the project team.He is a long-term expert working on part-time basis in Kosovo. His principal professional task at present is to represent his native country's judiciary in the work of EU in Brussels.

Dr. Deville acted for the German Ministry of J ustice as supervisor of one of the biggest training academies in the country , the judicial training academy in Recklinghausen, and has been member of several conferences and work groups on judicial training at European level.

Dr. Deville combines long experience as a judge and court administrator with extensive international experience. He was assigned several specific tasks after the reunification of Germany . He has also served in countries like Vietnam or Latvia, where he assisted the Ministry of Justice to manage the count ry's succession to EU, including in the field of judicial training. He studied law in Lausanne, London and the United States.

Mr Colin Ackerley is the Human Resources Development Expert on the EAR project. He currently lives on the Isle of Wight, a small Island of the southern coast of England. Mr. Ackerley has a wealth of experience, having worked in many Eastern European countries such as Poland, Slovenia, Slovakia, Albania, Croatia, Macedonia, Romania as well as in EU member states such as Portugal, France, Finland and the Netherlands. As a project evaluator for the EU he has worked in countries such as Thailand, Singapore and the Philippines. He acted mainly as a team leader and policy adviser in institutions such as the Polish Agency for Regional Development and their Ministry of Economics. In Slovenia he assisted in the drafting of the white paper on Regional Development and has managed Accession training Programmes for the Romanian government ministries.

Mr Ackerley also has a wealth of experience as a principal lecturer, head of department and director in higher and further education in the UK. He has acted as a management consultant to numerous public sector organisations in the British public sector. He was also for some time Head of Accreditation at the British Institute of Management, the organisation that was responsible for the Management Charter Initiative and the development of competency based learning. He has published a lot of case studies that are currently on the web and have been developed to assist trainers throughout Europe. He was the consultant/author of the first Competent manager series published by BIM.

Mr Ackerley was active in the Labour Party in the UK, standing for Parliament and also acting as leader of the labour group and Deputy Leader of the Ashford Borough Council. Ashford is well known as the terminal point of the Channel tunnel, the largest EU project ever. He is currently on the Regional Board of the Coop which is one of the largest employers in the UK. He was a keen soccer player and has assisted in the management of several UK teams.