Pierre Delval

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Full Name	Pierre Delval
Occupation	Criminologist
Date Of Birth	May 30, 1960(1960-05-30)
Age	64
Birthplace	Verdun
Country	France
Birth City	Verdun
Horoscope	Gemini

Pierre Delval Biography

Pierre Delval is one of the most popular and richest Criminologist who was born on May 30, 1960 in Verdun, Verdun, France. Pierre Delval (born May 30, 1960 in Verdun, France) is a French criminologist and forensic scientist, specialized in counterfeiting and counterfeit-crime. He is the President and founder of the Swiss WAITO Foundation, the first nongovernmental organization to deal with the criminal aspect of counterfeiting, contraband and food fraud at an international level. He is the author of several publications on counterfeit consumer goods and fiduciary documents. He is regularly consulted by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and the United Nations on the latest issues regarding the convergence between consumer protection and human rights. Often criticized by intellectual property rights protection associations for his alternative policy in the fight against dangerous counterfeiting, Delval’s plan of action is still essentially focused on consumer protection as concerns safety and public health, and the defense of states’ economic interests and assets.

Delval was passionately interested in detection methods for fake works of art and convinced that expert evidence based on iconographical analysis from art specialists alone is not enough to discover the truth. In 1986 he secured a scientific and technical partnership between the laboratory of the French Museums Service (Direction des Musées de France) and the PTS. During this period the French Scientific Police became aware of the value of exchanging expert knowledge with the largest French research laboratories, major universities, Écoles, and foreign crime-detection laboratories, including the BKA. The fields that required analysis and involvement on the part of the scientific police included forged documents, counterfeit currency, and the authentication of terrorist tracts and anonymous letters. At that time, this principally involved the demands of the Action Directe group and the beginnings of international terrorism.

In 1993, Delval moved to a different environment once again, this time developing a piece of private international engineering dedicated to the protection of fiduciary currencies and identity documents against forgeries affecting the state or involving organised crime. His project was an international first: combining fiduciary security traditions with microprocessing procedures on the world’s first identity and voter registration smart card on behalf of the Paraguayan State. Several other similar projects immediately followed in East Africa and in the Gulf.

In January 1994, Delval was appointed by the Iraqi Government to examine the possibility of creating a national official government printing works, capable of halting the wave of forgeries affecting the State in provenance from Asia Minor. Iraq was under international embargo and certain states were attempting to destabilise the Ba’athist economy, which had already been weakened by the long war against Iran and recent UN economic sanctions. Delval spent seven years working with Europe, Iraq and the UN, trying to find the technical, financial and political solutions necessary to put anti-forgery measures in place in Baghdad, while respecting the conditions set by the UN Security Council.

In spite of the arrival, in 1986, of professor Michèle Rudler at the head of the Scientific Police Laboratory of Paris and the materialisation of her modernisation work in the laboratories, Delval left the PTS in 1987 and joined the Groupement d’Intérêt Economique Cartes Bancaires (CB Bank Card Group: France’s national inter-bank network). He was responsible for smart card security and its application throughout French national territory and became an expert in the fight against electronic banking forgery. He put in place the policy of security approval for bank smart card production sites and of personalisation, a policy which was later taken up by card issuers Visa and Mastercard, within the framework of the international EMV process.

Pierre Delval Net Worth

Pierre Delval is one of the richest Criminologist from France. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Pierre Delval 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

From his first years at university, he was convinced that art, law and the sciences can provide common points in the fight against fake works of art. As a doctoral candidate in 1984, he chose an assignment of sixteen months study at the Scientific Police Laboratory of Paris (Laboratoire de Police scientifique de Paris), then known as the Criminal Identification Laboratory of Paris (Laboratoire d’Identité Judiciaire de Paris). Delval very quickly attracted the attention of Professor Pierre Fernand Ceccaldi, Director of the Laboratory and an internationally renowned criminalist and forensic scientist. He was sent to the Lausanne Institute of Criminalistics (Institut de Criminalistique de Lausanne), the world’s leading scientific police school, in order to specialize in the scientific analysis of forged documents.

The Professor Jacques Mathyer, Director of this Institute, encouraged Delval to continue on this path by training him in the new methods of forensic investigation of counterfeit currency. On his return to France in 1985, he was offered the opportunity of presenting himself to Jacques Genthial, director of the newly established PTS, the French Technical and Scientific Police (Police Technique et scientifique française), created by Pierre Joxe, Interior Minister at the time. Delval received an appointment as an Engineer at the Vice-Directorate (Sous-Direction) of the PTS. He was in charge of developing new technologies for criminal investigation within the five national laboratories and took scientific responsibility for the forged documents department of the Criminal Identification Laboratory of Paris, which had just received the new title of Scientific Police Laboratory of Paris. Delval contributed to the rapid improvement of these five French laboratories, which had been particularly affected by thirty years of opposition to change, and focused on the application of fundamental research in the fields of voice recognition and surface morphology analysis to criminalistics. Similarly, he prompted the French Ministry of the Interior to invest in scanning electron microscopy, making it possible to work on trace elements/trace evidence at the infinitesimal level.

In January 1989, on the strength of his rare know-how, he created his own research and design firm, Saqqarah, specialised in the protection of high- security documents. In the course of his duties as national Inspector for the French Bank Cards GIE group, Delval also worked for public and semi-public institutions such as the Française des jeux (French national lottery) detecting security weaknesses in fiduciary and identity documents and documents establishing legitimate rights.

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All that remained to be done was the creation of a real international technical operational centre, grouping together the means necessary for the fight against counterfeiting and equipped with the necessary tools of legitimacy, traceability and control. At the end of 2006, the latter initiative met with disagreement on the part of the Unifab (Union des Fabricants, a French organisation of companies and industrial associations). The Unifab opposed Delval’s initiative and obtained the withdrawal of his project by the Ministry of Industry. Nevertheless, the Council of Europe, with its 47 Member States, showed its agreement with Delval, as from 2006, through the Parliamentary Assembly’s ratification of the Convention on the necessity of a political, legal and technological alternative with regard to the fight against dangerous counterfeiting (counterfeiting-crime).

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In January 2009, Delval was appointed Chairman of the Swiss Committee for Standardisation, within the SNV (Swiss Association for Standardization), in charge of collaboration on the new international ISO PC246 and TC 247 standards for technical prevention and dissuasion against counterfeiting and fraud in general. These standards are broadly inspired by the AFNOR AC Z60100 Agreement of 2006. He was also appointed by the UNICRI (United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute) to work on the creation of an international forum responsible for the fight against dangerous counterfeiting and began establishing links between consumer rights and human rights with the Council of Europe.