Luc Van den Brande

Studies

• Doctor in Law
• Licence of Notary
• Lawyer, Mechelen Bar

  Political career

Parliamentarian mandates

• Member of the Belgian House of Representatives for the district of Mechelen
• Leader of the Christian Democratic group CVP
• Member of the Council of Culture and the Flemish Council
• Senator for the district of Mechelen-Turnhout
• Member of the Flemish Parliament for Mechelen-Turnhout
• President of the Commission for Foreign and European Affairs
• Member of the Flemish Parliament for the province of Antwerp since June 2004
• Community Senator
• Member of the Federal advisory Committee on European Affairs

  Governmental functions

• Federal Minister of Employment and Labour
• President of the Government of Flanders and Minister for Economic Affairs, Small and Medium-Sized Business, Science Policy, Energy and Foreign Relations
• Minister-President of the Government of Flanders and Minister for Economic Affairs, Small and Medium-Sized Business, Science Policy, Energy and Foreign Relations
• Minister-President of the Government of Flanders, Minister for Foreign Policy, European Affairs, Science and Technology

  European mandates and responsibilities

• Member of the Bureau of the Assembly of European Regions
• Vice-president and president of the Assembly of European Regions
• Member of the Committee of the Regions
• Vice-president of the Committee of the Regions – Head of the Belgian delegation
• First Vice-president of the Committee of the Regions
• President of the Committee of the Regions of the EU
• Leader of the Christian Democratic Group in the Advisory Inter-parliamentary Council of the Benelux countries

  [Council of Europe]

• Effective member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
• Vice-president of the Parliamentary Assembly
• President of the Group EPP/CD in the Parliamentary Assembly and thus also member of the Presidential Committee, the Bureau and the Standing Committee
• Effective member of the Political Affaires Committee and the Committee on the Honouring of obligations and commitments by member states, known as the Monitoring Committee;
• Member of various subcommittees
• Several times rapporteur on various occasions, e.g. monitoring of Turkey and the Russian Federation
• Leader of the observatory delegation for the legislative elections and of ad hoc committees
• Representative of the Parliamentarian Assembly at the Committee of Ministers for the negotiations concerning the MOU between the Council and the UE
• President of the Council for Democratic Elections of the Venice Commission

  [Western European Union]

• Effective member of the Assembly of the Western European Union

  Other representations

• Co-President of the Euro-Mediterranean Regional and Local Assembly
• Extraordinary Professor on Politic institutions – KU Leuven
• President Flanders Technology International
• President Lemmens Institute
• President International Association Anton van Wilderode

  Political and social interest

• General politics, economic, scientific and technological policies, State reforms, European and foreign policy

  Controversies

Honours

• 2007 : Knight Grand Cross in the Order of Leopold II.
• 1999 : Grand Officer in the Order of Leopold.