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July 2004 Senator, Member of Brussels Regional Parliament

2003-2004 Senator, Member of the Committee of Foreign Affairs and Interiors Affairs

1999-2003 First Deputy Chairman, Belgian Senate - Committee of Foreign Affairs
1995-2003 Senator, Member of the Committee of Foreign Affairs

1997-1999 President, International Crisis Group (ICG)

1991-1995 Secretary-General, Médecins Sans Frontières-International (Doctors Without Borders)

1989-1991 Deputy Medical Director, Pasteur-Mérieux, Paris

1988-1989 Fellow, Center for International Studies and Research (CERI), Paris

1985-1988 Project manager, Médecins Sans Frontières, Paris

1983-1985 Field missions, Médecins Sans Frontières, (Honduras, Guinea, Sudan)

Academic Qualifications

1983 Liège University (Belgium), Doctor of Medicine (Honours)

1987 Paris Institute of Political Studies (France), Masters in International Affairs

1988 INSEAD, Management Programme, Fontainebleau (France)

Languages

Fluent in French, English and Spanish

Basic knowledge of Dutch and Portuguese

Selected Publications

Rwanda and Genocide in the XXth Century, New York University Press and Pluto Press (London), 1995. Original book in French: Rwanda, essai sur le génocide, Complexe, 1994.

L'Humanitaire impossible ou deux siècles d'ambiguïté, Armand Colin, Paris, 1993.

Amérique centrale: enjeux politiques, Complexe, Bruxelles, 1989.

Co-editor of ‘Justice Internationale: de Nuremberg à La Haye et Arusha’, Bruylant, 1997.

Populations in danger 1995, A Médecins Sans Frontières report.

Various articles published in Foreign Policy (USA), Health and Human Right (Harvard USA), Preventive Diplomacy (Basic Books, USA), Politique Internationale (France), etc.

Editor-in-chief of ICG reports (1997-1999).

Board Membership and Miscellaneous

The Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS).

Revue des Questions Humanitaires.

Henry Dunant Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, Geneva.

International Crisis Group, Brussels.

World Economic Forum, Forum Fellow, Davos.

Foreign Policy Association

International observer during several elections in Asia, Central America and Europe.

Initiator, and then Secretary, of the Belgian Senate Special Committee of Inquiry into the Genocide in Rwanda in 1994 (1997).