Akkreditierungsdatum

16.09.2020

Details

Date of Birth | 1st May, 1962

Personal Status | married with three children

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1980-1985 | Law degree (licence, now master), cum laude, Catholic University of Louvain

1985-1986 | International relations and compared politics (postgraduate degree), magna cum laude, Catholic University of Louvain-la-Neuve

2001-2002 | Management (postgraduate degree), Catholic University of Louvain

Sprachen

Dutch, German, English, French

Berufliche Laufbahn

1986-1987 | Lawyer

1990-2004 | various positions in Warsaw, the former Yugoslavia, Geneva - United Nations, Brussels, France, Brussels - European Union

2004-2009 | diplomatic advisor to Mr. Yves Leterme in his different capacities, i. e. as Prime minister and vice Prime minister of the Government of Belgium and as Minister President of the Flemish government

2009-2010 | Ambassador, permanent representative of Belgium to the PSC and then to NATO

2010-2012 | Director general – bilateral relations, Member of the Board, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Belgium, Brussels

2012-2013 | Executive Board Member at holding company SDA, Wavre, Belgium

2014-2016 | Deputy to the Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Belgium, in charge of management issues / Director general a. i., Member of the Board, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

2016 | Ambassador – Permanent Representative of Belgium to the United Nations and international institutions in Geneva, to the Conference on Disarmament and the World Trade Organisation

since 2020 | Ambassador to Germany