Ilkka Laitinen

Ilkka Laitinen (born 22 August 1962 in Nurmes, Finland) is the Executive Director of Frontex, the European Union’s border protection agency.

He served in the Finnish Border Guard in 1982 and since 1985. He rose to the rank of colonel in 2004 and has held a wide variety of national and EU jobs. He was appointed as the first head of Frontex on 25 May 2005.