100 Notable alumni of
Catholic University of Leuven
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The Catholic University of Leuven is 419th in the world, 146th in Europe, and 3rd in Belgium by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from the Catholic University of Leuven sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Otto, Crown Prince of Austria
- Enrolled in the Catholic University of Leuven
- 1929-1935 studied political science and government and social science
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Otto von Habsburg was the last crown prince of Austria-Hungary from 1916 until the dissolution of the empire in November 1918. In 1922, he became the pretender to the former thrones, head of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine, and sovereign of the Order of the Golden Fleece upon the death of his father. He resigned as Sovereign of the Golden Fleece in 2000 and as head of the Imperial House in 2007.
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Simon Mignolet
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Simon Luc Hildebert Mignolet is a Belgian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Belgian Pro League club Club Brugge.
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Abdul Qadeer Khan
- Occupations
- theoretical physicistphysicistengineeracademicmetallurgist
- Biography
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Abdul Qadeer Khan,, known as A. Q. Khan, was a Pakistani nuclear physicist and metallurgical engineer who is colloquially known as the "father of Pakistan's atomic weapons program".
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Selah Sue
- Occupations
- recording artistsinger-songwritermusiciansinger
- Biography
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Selah Sue is a Belgian musician and songwriter. Her debut album, Selah Sue (2011), was a major success, selling over 720,000 copies in Europe, 320,000 in France alone. In 2011, she had chart success with the hit singles "Raggamuffin", "Crazy Vibes" and "This World". In 2011, Selah Sue won a European Border Breakers Award (EBBA). In January 2012 during the EBBA award ceremony she was presented with the EBBA Public Choice Award.
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Herman Van Rompuy
- Enrolled in the Catholic University of Leuven
- 1968-1971 graduated with licentiate in economics
- Occupations
- economistpolitician
- Biography
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Herman Achille, Count Van Rompuy is a Belgian politician, who served as the prime minister of Belgium from 2008 to 2009, and then as the first permanent president of the European Council from 2009 to 2014.
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Gloria Álvarez
- Occupations
- writerannouncerpolitical scientisttelevision presenter
- Biography
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Gloria Álvarez Cross is a Guatemalan radio and television presenter, author, and libertarian political commentator. She is the host of the Viernes de Gloria radio program in Guatemala. Álvarez is also the program director of the National Civic Movement of Guatemala, an organization that advocates for political participation in the national politics of Guatemala. She has also published books on political topics for a popular audience.
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Bart De Wever
- Occupations
- historianpoliticiancolumnist
- Biography
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Bart Albert Liliane De Wever is a Belgian politician. Since 2004, De Wever has been the leader of the New Flemish Alliance (N-VA), a political party advocating for the independence of Flanders. He is also a member of the Chamber of Representatives. De Wever played a prominent role in the 2007 Belgian government formation and presided over his party's victory in the 2010 federal elections when N-VA became the largest party in both Flanders and in Belgium as a whole.
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Mathias Cormann
- Occupations
- international forum participantpolitician
- Biography
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Mathias Hubert Paul Cormann is a Belgian-born Australian politician and diplomat who currently serves as Secretary-General of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), having assumed the office on 1 June 2021.
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Paul Bulcke
- Occupations
- international forum participantentrepreneur
- Biography
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Paul Bulcke is a Belgian businessman who is the chairman and former CEO of Nestlé.
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Yves Leterme
- Occupations
- diplomatpoliticianinternational forum participant
- Biography
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Yves Camille Désiré Leterme is a Belgian politician, a leader of the Christian Democratic and Flemish party (CD&V). He was the prime minister of Belgium, from November 2009 to December 2011.
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Frank Vandenbroucke
- Occupations
- diplomatuniversity teacherpolitician
- Biography
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Frank Ignace Georgette Vandenbroucke is a Belgian-Flemish academic and politician of Vooruit who has been serving as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Health and Social Affairs in the government of Prime Minister Alexander De Croo since 2020.
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Theo Francken
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Theo Francken is a Belgian politician who has been a member of the Chamber of Representatives since 2010. He is a member of the New Flemish Alliance (N-VA), a conservative Flemish nationalist party.
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Godfried Danneels
- Occupations
- Catholic priesttheologianuniversity teacherCatholic bishop
- Biography
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Godfried Maria Jules Danneels was a Belgian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as the Metropolitan Archbishop of Mechelen-Brussels and the chairman of the episcopal conference of his native country from 1979 to 2010. He was elevated to the cardinalate in 1983. His resignation that he had submitted in 2008 at the age of 75 was accepted by Pope Benedict XVI on 18 January 2010.
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Jean-Luc Dehaene
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Jean Luc Joseph Marie "Jean-Luc" Dehaene was a Belgian politician who served as the prime minister of Belgium from 1992 until 1999. During his political career, he was nicknamed "The Plumber", as well as "The Minesweeper", for his ability to negotiate political deadlocks.
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Roland Duchâtelet
- Occupations
- politicianentrepreneurengineer
- Biography
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Roland Duchâtelet is a Belgian businessman and politician. He is the owner of football club Újpest. He is the founder of the social-liberal political party Vivant in Belgium.
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David Van Reybrouck
- Occupations
- historianwritercolumnistuniversity teacherarchaeologist
- Biography
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David Grégoire Van Reybrouck is a Belgian cultural historian, archaeologist and author. He writes historical fiction, literary non-fiction, novels, poetry, plays and academic texts. He has received several awards for his works, which includes Congo: The Epic History of a People and Revolusi.
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Jan Peumans
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Jan Peter Peumans is a Belgian politician from the Flemish province of Limburg. Being part of the Flemish Movement, he was at a young age already member of the Volksunie. He seated for that party in the Limburgish provincial council and is since 2004, a Flemish Parliament member for the New Flemish Alliance (N-VA). In July 2004, he opposed, as Mayor of Riemst, the lengthening of the runway at Liège Airport. From 2007 until 2009, he was N-VA fraction leader in the Flemish Parliament. After the elections of 7 June 2009 (which was successful for his party; and with more than 27.000 Limburgish preference votes for him), he became President of the Flemish Parliament, succeeding Marleen Vanderpoorten.
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Koenraad Elst
- Occupations
- sinologistindologistwritercolumnistphilosopher
- Biography
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Koenraad Elst is a Flemish author, known primarily for his adherence to the Hindutva ideology and support of the Out of India theory. Scholars accuse him of harboring Islamophobia.
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Koen Lenaerts
- Occupations
- judgelawyeruniversity teacherpedagoguejurist
- Biography
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Koen Lenaerts, Baron Lenaerts is a Belgian jurist and the President of the Court of Justice of the European Union. He is also a Professor of European Law at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and was a member of the Coudenberg group, a Belgian federalist think tank.
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Vincent Van Quickenborne
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Vincent Paul Marie Van Quickenborne is a Belgian politician of the Open Flemish Liberals and Democrats who served as Minister of Justice in the government of Prime Minister Alexander De Croo from 2020 to 2023.
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Bart Swings
- Occupations
- inline speed skaterspeed skater
- Biography
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Bart Swings is a Belgian long track speed skater and inline speed skater. He is the 2022 Olympic champion on the speed skating mass start. Swings won Belgium's first gold medal in 74 years and is the first Belgian athlete ever to have won two medals in the Winter Olympics. In 2023 he won the Belgian National Sports Merit Award, the highest trophy for a sportsperson or team in Belgium.
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Koen Geens
- Occupations
- lawyerjuristpoliticianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Koen Geens is a Belgian jurist and politician of the Christian Democratic and Flemish (CD&V) who served as the Minister of Justice and as Deputy Prime Minister in the governments of Prime Ministers Charles Michel and Sophie Wilmès.
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Kim Gevaert
- Occupations
- sprinterathletics competitor
- Biography
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Kim Gevaert is a former sprint athlete and Olympic champion from Belgium.
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Len Sassaman
- Occupations
- engineercomputer scientistmathematiciancryptographer
- Biography
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Leonard Harris Sassaman was an American technologist, information privacy advocate, and the maintainer of the Mixmaster anonymous remailer code and operator of the randseed remailer. Much of his career gravitated towards cryptography and protocol development.
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Helga Stevens
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Helga Stevens is a Belgian politician of the New Flemish Alliance (N-VA) and member of the European Parliament since 2014. She is well known for her work fighting for the rights of people with disabilities.
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Gwendolyn Rutten
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Gwendolyn Angeline Albert Maria Rutten is a Belgian politician. She was the chairwoman of the Flemish liberal party until March 22, 2020. On 11 January 2017 she resigned from the Flemish Parliament in order to prepare her party for the local election of 2018.
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Wallace Loh
- Enrolled in the Catholic University of Leuven
- Studied in 1968-1968
- Occupations
- academic administratoreducatorauthoruniversity teacher
- Biography
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Wallace Dao-kui Loh is a Peruvian/American university administrator. He was the president of the University of Maryland, College Park, from 2010 until 2020.
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Augusta Chiwy
- Occupations
- nurse
- Biography
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Augusta Marie Chiwy was a Belgian nurse who was a volunteer during the Siege of Bastogne in 1944. She worked with the U.S. Army physician John Prior and with fellow Belgian nurse Renée Lemaire, treating injured soldiers during the Battle of the Bulge.
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Francesca Vanthielen
- Years
- 1972-.. (age 52)
- Occupations
- economistactor
- Biography
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Francesca Vanthielen is a Belgian television actress and host, radio presenter, and economist. She is probably best known internationally for playing the lead role in the Svalbard-set adventure film When the Light Comes (1998) and for hosting Sterren op de dansvloer (Dancing with the Stars) between 2005 and 2008. She has worked as a host on Radio TAM TAM (BRT), Q-music and Studio Brussel.
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Rik Torfs
- Occupations
- juristpoliticiancolumnistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Henri Maria Dymphna André Laurent "Rik" Torfs is a Belgian canon law scholar and media personality. He is a former Senator for the Christian Democratic and Flemish party in the Belgian Federal Parliament and a former Rector of the Catholic University of Leuven.
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Édouard Ngirente
- Occupations
- economistpolitician
- Biography
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Édouard Ngirente is a Rwandan economist and politician. He serves as the Prime Minister of Rwanda, since 30 August 2017, having been appointed by the President of Rwanda, Paul Kagame.
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Bart Somers
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Bartolomeus Jozef Lodewijk Rosalia "Bart" Somers is a Belgian, Flemish politician. He is currently the mayor of Mechelen. In 2017, Bart Somers was awarded 2016 World Mayor Prize as recognition for his outstanding achievements in welcoming refugees during recent years and for the long-term integration of immigrants from different cultures, religions and social backgrounds. He obtained a law degree from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.
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Vincent Rijmen
- Occupations
- computer scientistmathematicianuniversity teachercryptographer
- Biography
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Vincent Rijmen is a Belgian cryptographer and one of the two designers of the Rijndael, the Advanced Encryption Standard. Rijmen is also the co-designer of the WHIRLPOOL cryptographic hash function, and the block ciphers Anubis, KHAZAD, Square, NOEKEON and SHARK.
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Marianne Thyssen
- Enrolled in the Catholic University of Leuven
- Studied legal science
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Marianne Leonie Petrus Thyssen is a Belgian politician of the Christian Democratic and Flemish Party (CD&V) who served as European Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs, Skills and Labour Mobility between 2014 and 2019.
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Liesbeth Homans
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Liesbeth Homans is a Belgian politician and is affiliated to New Flemish Alliance. She was elected as a member of the Flemish Parliament in 2009 and as a member of the Belgian Senate in 2010.
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Wouter Beke
- Occupations
- political scientistpolitician
- Biography
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Wouter Beke is a Belgian politician and a member of the CD&V. He was reelected as a member of the Belgian Senate in 2007. In 2014 he became a member of the Belgian Federal House of Representatives and was reelected in 2019. In July 2019 he succeeded Kris Peeters as Federal Minister for Work, Economy and Consumer affairs. He left the Belgian Federal Government in October 2019 to become Minister for Welfare, Public health, Family and Poverty reduction in the Flemish Regional Jambon Government.
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Pieter De Crem
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Pieter Frans Norbert Jozef Raymond De Crem is a Belgian politician and member of Christian Democratic and Flemish (CD&V). He has been a Member of the Belgian Chamber of Representatives since 1995. He headed the CD&V fraction in the Chamber of Representatives from 2003 to 2007. Since 1995, he has been the mayor of Aalter in East Flanders.
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Bertus Aafjes
- Occupations
- writerprose writerpoetjournalist
- Biography
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Lambertus Jacobus Johannes "Bertus" Aafjes was a Dutch poet noteworthy for his poems about resistance to German occupation during World War II.
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Joachim Coens
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Joachim Coens is a Belgian politician and businessman who has served as the leader of Christen-Democratisch en Vlaams, a Christian democratic political party, since December 2019. Before politics, he had been managing director of the holding company for the Port de Bruges-Zeebruges.
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Abdollah Ramezanzadeh
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Abdollah Ramezanzadeh is an Iranian academic, writer and politician.
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Annemie Turtelboom
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Annemie Turtelboom is a former Belgian minister, who is currently serving as the Belgian Member of The European Court of Auditors since 2018.
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Paul De Grauwe
- Occupations
- economistpoliticiancolumnistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Paul De Grauwe is a Belgian economist and John Paulson Professor in European Political Economy at the London School of Economics and Political Science as head of the European Institute. He is also professor emeritus in international economics at KU Leuven and former member of the Belgian Federal Parliament.
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Caroline Gennez
- Occupations
- political scientistpolitician
- Biography
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Caroline Gennez is a Belgian socialist politician who has been serving as the Minister of Development Cooperation and Urban Policy in the De Croo Government since December 2022. She is a former chairwoman of the Socialist Party – Different (SP.A) in Flanders.
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Pieter Abbeel
- Occupations
- artificial intelligence researcher
- Biography
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Pieter Abbeel is a professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences, Director of the Berkeley Robot Learning Lab, and co-director of the Berkeley AI Research Lab at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also the co-founder of covariant.ai, a venture-funded start-up that aims to teach robots new, complex skills, and co-founder of Gradescope, an online grading system that has been implemented in over 500 universities nationwide. He is best known for his cutting-edge research in robotics and machine learning, particularly in deep reinforcement learning. In 2021, he joined AIX Ventures as an Investment Partner. AIX Ventures is a venture capital fund that invests in artificial intelligence startups.
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Sven Gatz
- Occupations
- zythologistpolitician
- Biography
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Sven Gatz is a Belgian Open Vld politician and the current Brussels Minister of Finance, Budget, Civil Service and Multilingualism in the government of the Brussels-Capital Region.
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Christian Van Thillo
- Years
- 1962-.. (age 62)
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Christian Van Thillo is a Belgian businessman.
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Stefaan De Clerck
- Occupations
- politicianlawyerbasketball player
- Biography
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Stefaan Maria Joris Yolanda De Clerck is a Belgian politician and former Minister of Justice of Belgium. He was Minister of Justice from 1995 until 1998 as well, when he resigned following the escape from prison of Marc Dutroux. He has served as chairman of Christian Democratic and Flemish party and held a seat in the Belgian Chamber of Representatives. De Clerck was mayor of Kortrijk.
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Dan Zahavi
- Occupations
- philosopherresearcher
- Biography
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Dan Zahavi is a Danish philosopher. He is currently a professor of philosophy at University of Copenhagen.
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Saskia De Coster
- Occupations
- editing staffwriterscreenwritercolumnistopinion journalist
- Biography
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Saskia De Coster is a Belgian writer. Her work has been published in literary magazines and she also writes screenplays and novels. De Coster has also been cited as an up-and-coming author. Saskia de Coster has published sixteen books as of 29 Jan 2022.
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Thomas Leysen
- Years
- 1960-.. (age 64)
- Occupations
- businesspersondirectorinternational forum participantentrepreneur
- Biography
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Thomas Leysen is a Belgian entrepreneur who graduated from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven with a degree in law.
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Aster Berkhof
- Enrolled in the Catholic University of Leuven
- 1938-1942 studied Germanic philology
- In 1946 graduated with doctorate in philosophy
- Occupations
- journalistchildren's writerwriteruniversity teacher
- Biography
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Lodewijk Paulina Van Den Bergh, known as Lode Van Den Bergh, also using the pseudonyms Aster Berkhof and Piet Visser, was a Belgian writer.
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Paelabang Danapan
- Years
- 1953-.. (age 71)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Paelabang Danapan, also known as Sun Ta-chuan (Chinese: 孫大川; pinyin: Sūn Dàchuān), is an aboriginal Taiwanese educator and politician. He had served as Minister of the Council of Indigenous Peoples from 2009 to 2013 and Vice President of the Control Yuan from 2014 to 2020. Sun is a member of the Puyuma tribe in Taiwan, and is also a Roman Catholic.
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Kathleen Van Brempt
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Kathleen Van Brempt, is a Belgian social-democratic politician and member of Vooruit. She currently serves as Member of the European Parliament (MEP) as part of the Party of European Socialists and is leader of the local branch of her party in Antwerp.
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Wu Rong-i
- Years
- 1939-.. (age 85)
- Occupations
- economistpolitician
- Biography
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Wu Rong-i is a Taiwanese politician. Wu was the Vice Premier in 2005–2006., and now serves as senior advisor to Tsai Ing-wen, current President of Taiwan, and as Chairman of Taiwania Capital Management Corporation, the investment arm of Taiwan.
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Tomás Moulian
- Enrolled in the Catholic University of Leuven
- 1963-1965 studied social science
- Occupations
- historianwriteruniversity teachersociologistpolitical scientist
- Biography
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Tomás Moulian Emparanza is a Chilean political scientist and sociologist. A Guggenheim Fellow and winner of the National Prize for Humanities and Social Sciences, he is known for being a critic of the socio-economic structure of his country after the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.
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Steven Vanackere
- Occupations
- international forum participantpolitician
- Biography
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Steven Vanackere, is a Belgian politician from Flanders and member of the Christian Democratic and Flemish party (CD&V). He held the portfolios of Deputy Prime Minister of Belgium and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Institutional Reform in the Leterme II government. He is the son of Leo Vanackere, who, following a political career as a Member of the Chamber of Representatives and the Senate of Belgium, became the Provincial Governor of West Flanders in 1979. His grandfather, Remi Wallays, had also been a senator and had been a former Mayor of Wevelgem.
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Luc Sels
- Occupations
- university teachersociologisteconomist
- Biography
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Luc Sels is a Belgian sociologist.
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Gent Cakaj
- Years
- 1990-.. (age 34)
- Occupations
- civil servant
- Biography
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Gent Cakaj is a Kosovo-born Albanian politician, who served as the Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs of Albania from 2019–2020.
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Jo Vandeurzen
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Johan Maria Gerardus Vandeurzen is a Belgian politician, member of Christen-Democratisch en Vlaams (CD&V), a centrist Flemish Christian Democratic party.
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Lucas Van Looy
- Occupations
- emeritus bishopCatholic priesttheologianCatholic bishop
- Biography
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Lucas Van Looy S.D.B. is a Belgian prelate of the Catholic Church who was Bishop of Ghent from 2004 to 2019. He worked as a missionary in South Korea for more than a decade and held leadership positions with the Salesians from 1984 to 2003.
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Geert van Istendael
- Occupations
- translatorwritercolumnistpoetlinguist
- Biography
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Geert van Istendael is the pseudonym of Geert Maria Mauritius Julianus Vanistendael, a Belgian writer, poet and essayist. He studied sociology and philosophy at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. From 1987 until 1993, he worked as a journalist for the Belgian National Television and since 1993 he became a full-time writer. He is a brother of Frans Vanistendael. He is a supporter of Orangism and a Pan-Netherlands.
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Luc Van den Brande
- Occupations
- university teacherpoliticianlawyer
- Biography
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Luc Van den Brande is a Flemish politician, member of the CD&V and was Minister-president of Flanders from 21 January 1992 until 13 July 1999. He took the initiative to create the Flanders Institute for Biotechnology (VIB). On 6 February 2008 he became President of the European Union's Committee of the Regions for a period of two years.
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Matthias Diependaele
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Matthias Diependaele is a Belgian politician affiliated to the N-VA who is the current Minister for Finance, Budget, Housing and Immovable Heritage in the Flemish Government. He previously served as a member of the Flemish Parliament between 2009 and 2019.
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Anicetus Bongsu Antonius Sinaga
- Occupations
- Catholic bishopCatholic priest
- Biography
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Anicetus Bongsu Antonius Sinaga, was the Indonesian Roman Catholic bishop of the Diocese of Sibolga and then Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Medan from 2009 to 2018.
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Marnix Gijsen
- Occupations
- performing artistwriterpoetactorpolitician
- Biography
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Marnix Gijsen was a Belgian writer. His real name was Joannes Alphonsius Albertus Goris; his pseudonym relates to Marnix van Sint Aldegonde and the surname of his mother (Gijsen).
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Anne Provoost
- Occupations
- children's writerwriteressayist
- Biography
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Anne Provoost is a Flemish author.
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Bambang Subianto
- Enrolled in the Catholic University of Leuven
- In 1981 graduated with Master of Business Administration
- In 1984 graduated with Doctor
- Occupations
- researcherlecturereconomist
- Biography
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Bambang Subianto was an Indonesian academic and technocrat who served as Minister of Finance from 1998 to 1999. Before assuming the post of finance minister, Bambang worked in the Department of Finance for about a decade.
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Hans Kluge
- Enrolled in the Catholic University of Leuven
- Studied medicine
- Occupations
- physician
- Biography
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Hans Henri Marcel Paul Kluge is a Belgian medical doctor and public health expert with more than 25 years of experience spanning three continents. As of 1 February 2020, he served as the World Health Organization Regional Director for Europe after being nominated in September 2019 by the WHO Regional Committee for Europe. In 2019, Belgium proposed Dr Kluge as a candidate for the position of WHO Regional Director for Europe.
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Patricia De Martelaere
- Occupations
- translatorwriteruniversity teacherphilosopher
- Biography
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Patricia De Martelaere was a Flemish philosopher, professor, author and essayist. Born in Zottegem, Belgium, her full name was Patricia Marie Madeleine Godelieve. She graduated in philosophy from the Catholic University of Leuven and then taught and lectured there and at the Catholic University of Brussels.
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Renaat Landuyt
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Renaat Julien Landuyt is a Belgian socialist politician. He is a member of the SP.A.
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Johan Sauwens
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Johan Sauwens is a Belgian politician from the province of Limburg.
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Wouter Van Besien
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Wouter Van Besien is a Belgian politician. From 25 October 2009 until 15 November 2014, he was the chairman of the ecologist party Groen.
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Vic Anciaux
- Occupations
- physicianpolitician
- Biography
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Victor Anciaux was a Belgian doctor and politician. A member of the People's Union, he served in the Chamber of Representatives from 1965 to 1995.
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Rudi Pauwels
- Years
- 1960-.. (age 64)
- Occupations
- international forum participantpharmacologist
- Biography
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Rudi Pauwels is a Belgian pharmacologist and biotech entrepreneur.
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Louis-Philippe Loncke
- Occupations
- engineerlecturerexplorer
- Biography
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Louis-Philippe Loncke is a Belgian explorer, adventurer and motivational speaker. In 2008, he achieved the world first crossing on foot of the length of the Simpson desert, which was a North to South traverse passing through its geographical center. In 2018, he traversed Tasmania during the austral winter without resupplies and was nicknamed the Mad Belgian by some Australians.
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Rudy Aernoudt
- Occupations
- university teacherpoliticianeconomist
- Biography
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Rudy Aernoudt is a Belgian professor, writer, politician, economist and philosopher, born in Torhout. He was many times Chief of staff of the Ministers of economy and innovation both in Flanders and in Wallonia, of the Belgian Minister of economics and scientific policy and of the President of the European Economic and Social Committee, Henri Malosse. He is the only person to serve as Head of Cabinet at the European, Belgian, Walloon and Flemish levels. He is professor of corporate finance at the Universities of Ghent and Nancy and Professor of Economics, Monetary and Geopolitical Environment for the International Executive MBA, a joint venture of HEC Paris and UCLouvain.
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Eva Brems
- Enrolled in the Catholic University of Leuven
- Graduated with doctorate
- Occupations
- politicianuniversity teacherpolitical activisthuman rights activistjurist
- Biography
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Eva Brems is a Belgian university professor, human rights defender and politician. She is a senior lecturer in human rights and non-Western law at Ghent University. Besides her academic engagements, Brems has also been politically active. From 2006 until 2010, she was the president of the Flemish division of Amnesty International. In the spring of 2010 she announced her candidacy in the 2010 Belgian general election for the Chamber of Representatives. She now represents the constituency of Leuven for the environmentalist party Groen.
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H. Narayan Murthy
- Occupations
- psychologist
- Biography
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Hosur Narayan Murthy was an Indian clinical psychologist, writer, philosopher, Sanskrit scholar and teacher who headed the department of clinical psychology at National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences (NIMHANS) at Bangalore. He was born in the city of Bangalore in 1924 to Brahmin parents Hosur Ramaswamaiah Subba Rao and smt Rajamma. Murthy's father was an official at "Iron and Steel Plant" at Bhadravathi town in Karnataka.
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Bashar Warda
- Occupations
- university teacherCatholic priestCatholic bishop
- Biography
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Bashar Matti Warda is a Chaldean Catholic cleric and the current Archbishop of Erbil (in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq).
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Christoph D'Haese
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Christoph D'Haese is a Belgian politician and is affiliated to the N-VA.
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Lodewijk Aerts
- Occupations
- theologianCatholic priestCatholic bishop
- Biography
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Lode Aerts, identified also as Lodewijk Aerts, is a Belgian prelate of the Catholic Church who has been Bishop of Bruges since December 2016.
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René Stockman
- Occupations
- physicianphilosophernurse
- Biography
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Brother Dr. René P. E. Stockman, F.C. is the Superior General of the Congregation of the Brothers of Charity since 2000. He is a Belgian specialist in psychiatric caregiving.
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Francis Campbell
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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Francis Martin-Xavier Campbell is a British diplomat and academic. Since January 2020, he has been the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Notre Dame Australia. From 2014 to 2020, he was the Vice-Chancellor of St Mary's University, Twickenham. From 2005 to 2011, he was the British Ambassador to the Holy See. He is an Honorary Fellow of St Edmund's College, Cambridge.
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Edward Braxton
- Occupations
- Catholic bishopCatholic priest
- Biography
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Edward Kenneth Braxton is an American prelate of the Catholic Church who served as bishop of the Diocese of Belleville in Illinois, from 2005 to 2020.
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Lode Van Hecke
- Occupations
- Catholic bishopCatholic priest
- Biography
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Lode Van Hecke OCSO is a Belgian Catholic prelate who serves as Bishop of Ghent. He was previously abbot of Orval Abbey from 2007 to November 2019. A monk since 1976, he is the only Trappist ever to be appointed bishop of a Belgian diocese.
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Thomas Blondeau
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- journalistwriterpoet
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Thomas Blondeau was a Flemish writer, poet and journalist. He studied literature at the University of Leuven and the University of Leiden. He wrote for newspapers including Mare, Deng, De Revisor, De Standaard and Dif.
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Jan Verroken
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- politician
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Jan Verroken was a Belgian politician.
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Eric Defoort
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- historianuniversity teacherpolitician
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Eric Defoort was a Flemish Belgian politician and president of the European Free Alliance.
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Jaak Gabriëls
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- politician
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Petrus Josephus Jacobus "Jaak" Gabriëls is a Belgian politician and member of the Flemish Liberals and Democrats (VLD) (Dutch: Vlaamse Liberalen en Democraten or VLD). He graduated in 1965 at the Catholic University of Leuven as Master of Philosophy and Arts. He started his political career as a Provincial Councillor for Limburg from 1974 to 1977. From 1977 till the last day of December 2012 he was the Mayor of Bree, and from 1977 he was Member of the Chamber of Representatives. From 1995 to 1999 he was a Member of the Flemish Parliament.
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Ingrid Robeyns
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- economistwomen's rights activistuniversity teacherphilosopher
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Ingrid A. M. Robeyns holds the Chair Ethics of Institutions at Utrecht University, Faculty of Humanities and the associated Ethics Institute.
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Dirk Van Mechelen
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- politician
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Dirk Louis Maria Van Mechelen was the Flemish minister of Finance and Budget and Town and Country Planning. He is a member of the Open Flemish Liberals and Democrats.
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David Ricken
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- Catholic bishopCatholic priest
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David Laurin Ricken is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church, serving as the bishop of the Diocese of Green Bay in Wisconsin since 2008. Ricken previously served as bishop of the Diocese of Cheyenne in Wyoming from 1999 to 2008.
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Peter Van Rompuy
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- politician
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Peter Van Rompuy is a Belgian politician. He is the leader of the CD&V in the Flemish Parliament. On February 6, 2019, he became group leader of the CD&V in the Flemish Parliament, following the appointment of Koen Van den Heuvel to the Flemish government.
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Jef Valkeniers
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- physicianpolitician
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Jozef Maria Zacharias Valkeniers (Schepdaal, Belgium - 29 December 1932) is a physician-neuropsychiatrist and a Flemish politician.
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Lodewijk De Witte
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- politician
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Lodewijk "Lode" De Witte is the former governor of the Belgian province of Flemish Brabant.
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Paul Claes
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- poettranslatorwriteruniversity teacher
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Paul Claes is a Flemish scholar, writer, poet and translator.
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Hans Bruyninckx
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- political scientistuniversity teacher
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Hans Emiel Aloysius Bruyninckx is a Belgian political scientist and international relations scholar specialized in international environmental governance and European environmental politics. He has headed the European Environment Agency since 2013. While in this position, he is on leave from his posts as Professor of International Relations and Global Environmental Governance, Institute for International and European Policy; and Director, Research Institute for Work and Society, both at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven).
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Mark Coeckelbergh
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- philosopher
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Mark Coeckelbergh is a Belgian philosopher of technology. He is Professor of Philosophy of Media and Technology at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Vienna and former President of the Society for Philosophy and Technology. He was previously Professor of Technology and Social Responsibility at De Montfort University in Leicester, UK, Managing Director of the 3TU Centre for Ethics and Technology, and a member of the Philosophy Department of the University of Twente. Before moving to Austria, he has lived and worked in Belgium, the UK, and the Netherlands. He is the author of several books, including Growing Moral Relations (2012), Human Being @ Risk (2013), Environmental Skill (2015), Money Machines (2015), New Romantic Cyborgs (2017), Moved by Machines (2019), the textbook Introduction to Philosophy of Technology (2019), and AI Ethics (2020). He has written many articles and is an expert in ethics of artificial intelligence. He is best known for his work in philosophy of technology and ethics of robotics and artificial intelligence (AI), he has also published in the areas of moral philosophy and environmental philosophy.
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Barbara Baert
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- art historianuniversity teacher
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Barbara Baert is a Belgian art historian, and professor of art history at KU Leuven. In 2016 Baert earned the prestigious Francquiprijs, which is yearly awarded by the Francqui-Stichting to a scientist in human, exact and biological-medical sciences.
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Bart De Strooper
- Years
- 1950-.. (age 74)
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- physicianuniversity teachermolecular biologistneuroscientist
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Bart De Strooper is a Belgian molecular biologist and professor at Vlaams Instituut voor Biotechnologie and KU Leuven and the UK Dementia Research Institute and University College London, UK. De Strooper's research seeks to translate genetic data into the identification and treatment of neurodegenerative diseases and treatments. interest are the secretases, proteases which cleave the amyloid precursor protein (APP), resulting in amyloid peptides.
