Fabrice Leggeri, has been Executive Director of Frontex, the European Border and Coast Guard Agency, since 16 January 2015, overseeing an unprecedented period of expansion at the Agency. He joined Frontex from the French Ministry of Interior, where he ran the Division on Irregular Migration, with key responsibilities arising from Schengen-related public policies and illegal immigration. Earlier, he served as Head of the Unit dealing with cross border traffic, frontiers and visas. Mr Leggeri has worked extensively in the area of migration and international law. Following his first stint at the Ministry of Interior, he worked as national expert at the European Commission in 2000-2003, where he contributed to drafting the Commission paper that led to the creation of Frontex. He graduated from the École nationale d'administration (ÉNA), École normale supérieure (ENS) and L’Institut d’études politiques de Paris.