Philippe Lamberts is a Belgian

Belgium

Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...

 politician, co-spokesperson of the European Green Party

European Green Party

The European Green Party is the Green political party at European level. As such it is a federation of green parties in Europe.-History:...

 (first with Ulrike Lunacek

Ulrike Lunacek

Ulrike Lunacek is an Austrian politician. She used to be a Member of Parliament of the National Council of Austria, and since 2009 is a Member of the European Parliament for Austria....

, then with Monica Frassoni

Monica Frassoni

Monica Frassoni is an Italian politician and was a Member of the European Parliament for the North West of Italy until 2009. She is a member of the Italian Green Party, part of the European Greens. Frassoni was co-chair, together with Daniel Cohn-Bendit, of the European Greens–European Free...

) and a Member of the European Parliament

Member of the European Parliament

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 for the Ecolo

Ecolo

Ecolo is a French-speaking Belgian green political party in Wallonia, Brussels and the German-speaking Community of Belgium...

 party.

He graduated as an engineer at the Université catholique de Louvain

Université catholique de Louvain

The Université catholique de Louvain, sometimes known, especially in Belgium, as UCL, is Belgium's largest French-speaking university. It is located in Louvain-la-Neuve and in Brussels...

 in 1986. Since 1987 he has worked as a manager in the private sector. Between 1999 and 2003 he was an adviser of the Vice-Prime Minister Isabelle Durant

Isabelle Durant

Isabelle A.J. Durant is a Belgian politician, member of the Ecolo party. On 15 September, 2010 Durant supported the new initiative Spinelli Group in the European Parliament, which was founded to reinvigorate the strive for federalisation of the European Union...

on foreign affairs and defence.