Union Académique Internationale

Historian and archaeologist, specialist of Greco-Roman Antiquity.

Director of the excavations of Apamea (Syria, Prov. Of Hama) and Itanos (Greece, Eastern Crete).

Ordinary Professor at the Université libre de Bruxelles.

President of the French Network of Institutes for Advanced Studies and several Belgian foundations.

Former Rector of the Université libre de Bruxelles (2010-2016).

Member of the Classe des Lettres et des Sciences morales et politiques of the Académie royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique. Elected member on December 4, 2006. Permanent Secretary since January 1, 2018.

General Secretary of the Union Académique Internationale.