Professor of International Law and the Law of International Organisations, Director of the Institute for International Law and Chairman of the International Relations Council, Faculty of Law, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (from October 1998)

President of United Nations Assocation Flanders Belgium (from June 2003)

Of Counsel, Linklaters De Bandt, Brussels (from November 1997)

Former functions:

Lecturer and Senior Lecturer, Maastricht University (1994-1998) and Antwerp University (1998), on international, European, economic and financial law
Visiting Professor, European Company Law, Liège University (1996-1998)
Law Clerk, Court of Justice of the European Communities, Luxembourg (1991-1994; Cabinet of Advocate General Walter van Gerven)
Legal Adviser to the Belgian Minister of Finance, Brussels (1989)
Assistant in financial, economic and commercial law, Antwerp University (1987-89)

Studies:

PhD in Law, Catholic University of Leuven (1996)
Visiting Researcher, Harvard Law School (1990-91)
Master of Laws, Yale University (1989-90)
Lic. Juris, Antwerp University (1987)
Bachelor of Philosophy, Antwerp University (1984)