Board of Directors
Chairman
Count Herman Van Rompuy
Chairman emeritus European Council
Minister of State
Professor
Vice Chairmans
Baron Jean-Pierre Hansen
Honorary Chairman of Electrabel – Engie
Member of the royal Academy
Baron Mark Waer
Ererector Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Voorzitter Unversitaire Ziekenhuizen KULeuven
Executive Director
Mr. Pierre Van Moerbeke – Francqui Prize 1988
Professor emeritus at the Université Catholique de Louvain
Simons Foundation, New York
Members
Mrs Valérie André
FRS / FNRS Research Director Humanities
Research Advisor at ULB
Professor at the Free University of Brussels
Member of the royal Academy
Count Boël
Chairman of the Board of Solvay SA
Mr Chris Buyse
Managing Partner
Fund+ (Life Sciences Research Partners)
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
Baroness Marie-Claire Foblets – Francqui Prize 2004
Professor at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and Director Max-Planck Institut fuer ethnologische Forschung,
Halle – Germany
Count Frédéric Francqui
Administrator of Enterprises
Baron Jan Grauls
Honorary Ambassador – 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
Emeritus Professor at the Universiteit Gent
Member and Honorary Chairman of the « Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van België »
Honorary Board
Mr Herman Balthazar
Honorary Governor of the Province of East Flanders
Professor emeritus at the UGent
Honorary Vice Chairman of the Francqui Foundation
Count Etienne Davignon
Minister of State – Vice President of Suez-Tractebel – Former Vice President of the Commission of the European Communities
Honorary Vice Chairman of the Francqui Foundation
Baroness Janine Delruelle-Ghobert † (18/12/2022)
Honorary Senator – Judge emerita at the Constitutional Court
Viscount Mark Eyskens
Minister of State – Former Prime Minister of Belgium – Professor emeritus at the KUL
Honorary Chairman of the Francqui Foundation
Baron Daniel Janssen
Honorary Chairman of the Board, SOLVAY S.A.
Mr Anton van Rossum
Director of compagnies
Former Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Erasmus University Rotterdam
Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam
Advisory Board
Baron Thierry Boon – Francqui Prize 1990
Emeritus extraordinary Professor 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 Paul de Meester
Professor emeritus KUL
Honorary Chairman of BESIX
Mrs Régine Kurgan-Van Hentenryk
Honorary Professor at the ULB
Baron Niceas Schamp
Permanent Secretary of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and Arts
Professor emeritus at the UGent
Baroness Greta Suetens-Bourgeois
Em. Judge, Supreme Court of Belgium
Professor emerita at the KUL
Baron Piet Van Waeyenberge
Chairman of the Board DE EIK N.V.
Mr Joël Vandekerckhove
Emeritus Professor Universiteit Gent – Honorary Director VIB. – Dept. of Medical Protein Research
Baron Marc Verstraete † (18/08/2018)
Professor Dr. Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Centre de Biologie Moléculaire et Vasculaire