Virgil SPIRIDON serves as Head of Operations of the Cybercrime Programme Office based in Bucharest, responsible for managing the cybercrime projects on capacity building of the Council of Europe. He was the head of the Romanian National Cyber Crime Unit from 2003 to 2012, where he created and developed the Cybercrime Unit in Romania and established the cybercrime strategy for the Romanian National Police. Virgil used to be the Director of the Organised Crime Department, for one year and Deputy Chief of the Romanian National Police for more than four years having responsibilities on organized crime, counterterrorism and financial crimes. He was the driver of the EMPACT projects on Cybercrime and Credit card fraud and was involved in drafting the study on good practices in the Specialized Cybercrime Unit in the IPA project coordinated by the Council of Europe.
He graduated the Romanian Police Academy in 1997 and followed a master course on international law on 1998. Virgil is one of the graduates of the US FBI National Academy, being part of one of the sessions from 2005.