Bart De Schutter

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Prof. Dr. Em. Bart De Schutter is a Belgian scientist and was a member of the Coudenberg group a federalist think tank.

[edit] Education

He graduated as Doctor in Law from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) in 1959. In addition he obtained a MA in Political and Diplomatic Sciences from the Universite Libre de Bruxelles in 1960. In 1961, he obtained a LLM from Harvard University (USA). In Strasbourg (France), he followed the Special Programme on European Organizations at the Faculte Internationale pour l'Enseignement du Droit Compare and in Geneva the United Nations International Law Commission Seminar.

[edit] Career

He started his career at the VUB where he became Dean of the Faculty of Law and Rector. In addition, he was member of the Board of Directors of the VUB and President of the Board of the VRT, the Flemish Public Radio and Television network. Since 1971 until 2003, he has been Director of the IES-VUB PILC Programme of the Anglia Polytechnic University (Law School at Cambridge) of which he is Honorary Fellow.

He is the Belgian representative at the Joint Supervisory Body of Europol and Schengen since 1997. Since 2001, he is the Belgian representative in the Joint Supervisory Authority of the EU Customs Information System. Since 2001, he has been the President of the Institute for European Studies . Since 2005, he is Chairman of the Erasmus Hogeschool Brussel. He is a Member of the Belgian Privacy Commission.