Gilles de Kerchove (born on the 3 October 1956 in Uccle Uccle Uccle or Ukkel is one of the nineteen municipalities located in the Brussels-Capital Region of Belgium.Uccle is known for its well-to-do areas, its green spots and its high rental rates.-History:... , Belgium) is a Senior European Official. Director of Justice and Home Affairs (HJA) in the Council Secretariat of the European Union from 1995 – 2007, he has since been appointed as EU Counter-terrorism Coordinator, succeeding Gijs de Vries Gijs de Vries Gijs M. de Vries is a Dutch Democrats 66 politician. He was deputy Interior Minister between 1998 and 2002, and was the European Union's anti-terrorism co-ordinator from 25 March 2004 to March 2007... .

Biography

He obtained his law degree at the Catholic University of Louvain-la-Neuve in 1979 and later followed a Masters

Master's degree

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 in Law at Yale Law School

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 in 1984.

He joined the European Commission

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 in 1985 as an administrator in Directorate General IV for Competition. From 1986 to 1995, he worked for the Belgian Government, as Chief of Staff of the Deputy Prime Minister

Deputy Prime Minister

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 and various ministries.

In his role as Director of JHA, he had central role in negotiations for Eurojust and the European arrest warrant. Since 2007, he is EU Counter-terrorism Coordinator. He was also Deputy Secretary of the Convention which drafted the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union from 1999 to 2000.

In addition to its administrative activities, he is also a lecturer in law at several universities in Belgium

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, particularly at the Université Catholique de Louvain (Louvain-la-Neuve), at the Facultés Universitaires Saint-Louis (Brussels) and the Université Libre de Bruxelles (Brussels).

External links

• CV on Facultés universitaires Saint-Louis
  Facultés universitaires Saint-Louis
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   website in Bruxelles
• EU Council – Fight against Terrorism