Rik Van de Walle appointed Envoy to the Belgian Presidency of the Council of the EU

Our Board of Directors has appointed Rik Van de Walle as our association’s Envoy to the upcoming Belgian Presidency of the Council of the EU effective immediately and until the end of June 2024.

Rik will advise and support the Board in the lead up to, and for the duration of, the Belgian Presidency.

Rik has been Rector of Ghent University since October 2017. In 2019, he was elected President of CESAER and he was re-elected in 2021 for a second term which completes at the end of this year.

Rik’s work will build upon the efforts undertaken by our association’s previous Envoys to Presidencies of the Council of the EU, including:

• Guillermo Cisneros Perez (Rector of Universidad Politécnica de Madrid)
• Staffan Bengtsson (President of Chalmers University of Technology)
• Vojtěch Petráček (Rector of Czech Technical University in Prague)
• Christian Lerminiaux (President of ParisTech)
• Arlindo Oliveira (former President of Instituto Superior Técnico)
• Ernst Schmachtenberg (former rector RWTH Aachen University).

For more information, please contact Justine Moynat (IT & Communication Officer).