Board of Directors

 

Chairman

Count Herman Van Rompuy
President emeritus of the European Council
Minister of State
Professor

 

Vice Chairmen

Baron Jean-Pierre Hansen
Honorary Chairman of Electrabel – Engie
Member of the Royal Academy of Belgium

Baron Mark Waer
Ererector Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Voorzitter Unversitaire Ziekenhuizen KULeuven

 

CEO

Baroness Marie-Claire Foblets – Francqui Prize 2004
Professor at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Director Max-Planck Institut fuer ethnologische Forschung, Halle – Germany

 

Secretary General

Mevrouw Greet T’Jonck

 

 

Members of the Board

Mrs Valérie André
FRS / FNRS Humanities Research Director
Research Advisor at the Université Libre de Bruxelles
Professor at the Université Libre de Bruxelles
Member of the Royal Academy of Belgium for Science and Arts

Count Nicolas Boël
Honorary Chairman of Solvay SA

Mr Chris Buyse
Managing Partner Fund+ (Life Sciences Research Partners)

Count Frédéric Francqui
Administrator of Enterprises

Baron Jan Grauls
Honorary Ambassador and Honorary Diplomat of Belgium to the United Nations

Mrs Françoise Masai
Honorary Vice Governor of the National Bank of Belgium

Mr Alexandre Sevrin
Ordinary Professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel – Theoretical physics
Guest Professor at the Universiteit Antwerpen and the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Vice Director of the « Internationale Solvay Instituten voor Fysica en Chemie »

Mrs Sylviane Velu-Spreutels
Honorary Adviser to the Court of Cassation

Mrs Dominique Willems
Professor emeritus at the Universiteit Gent
Honorary Chairman and Member of the Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van België (KVAB) voor Wetenschappen en Kunsten

 

Honorary Board

Mr Herman Balthazar
Honorary Governor of the Province of East Flanders
Professor emeritus at the Universiteit Gent

Count Etienne Davignon
Minister of State
Vice President of Suez-Tractebel
Former Vice President of the Commission of the European Communities

Viscount Mark Eyskens
Minister of State
Former Prime Minister of Belgium
Professor emeritus at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

Baron Daniel Janssen
Honorary Chairman of the Board of Directors of SOLVAY S.A.

Mr. Pierre Van Moerbeke – Francqui Prize 1988
Professor emeritus at the Université Catholique de Louvain
Simons Foundation, New York

Mr Anton van Rossum
Director of Compagnies
Former Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Erasmus University Rotterdam

 

Advisory Board

Baron Thierry Boon Falleur – Francqui Prize 1990
Extraordinary Professor emeritus at the Université Catholique de Louvain

Knight Emile Boulpaep
Chairman Belgian American Educational Foundation, Inc.
Professor at the Yale University, School of Medicine

Baron Jacques Brotchi
Honorary President of the Senate
Honorary Chief of the Neurochirugy at the Hôpital Erasme
Honorary President of the « Fédération Mondiale des Sociétés de Neurochirurgie »
Emeritus Professor at the Université Libre Bruxelles

Baron Désiré Collen – Francqui Prize 1984
Professor emeritus at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Chairman Désiré Collen Foundation
Chairman Life Sciences Research Partners VZW
2005 Health Award InBev-Baillet Latour

Count Claude d’Aspremont Lynden – Francqui Prize 1995
Professor emeritus at the Université Catholique de Louvain
Member of the Center for Operations Research and Economectrics, Louvain-la-Neuve

Mrs Régine Kurgan-Van Hentenryk
Honorary Professor at the Université Libre de Bruxelles

Baron Niceas Schamp
Permanent Secretary of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and Arts
Professor emeritus at the Universiteit Gent

Baroness Greta Suetens-Bourgeois
Judge emerita at Court of Cassation
Professor emerita at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

Baron Piet Van Waeyenberge
Chairman of the Board DE EIK N.V.

Mr Joël Vandekerckhove
Professor emeritus at the Universiteit Gent
Honorary Director VIB.  Dept. of Medical Protein Research