Gilles de Kerchove
Rising tsar
By Judith Crosbie - 06.12.2007 / 00:00 CET
Gilles de Kerchove has a bit of a daredevil streak in him. The 51-year-old Belgian has in the past enjoyed throwing himself out of planes and off mountains in pursuit of his parachuting and hang-gliding hobbies. His new role as EU counter-terrorism co-ordinator is a similar leap into the unknown given the high-profile nature of the job and the difficulty of doing it with so few powers.
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The CV
1956: Born Brussels, Belgium
1979: Graduates in law, Catholic University of Louvain-la-Neuve (UCL)
1979-83: Teaching assistant, UCL Law School
1984: Master of laws, Yale Law School, US
1985: Administrator in the European Commission (DG Competition)
1986-88: Secretary of the Walloon government
1989-92: Chef de cabinet of the Belgian deputy prime minister, minister of justice and minister of small- and medium-sized enterprises
1993-95: Chef de cabinet of the Belgian deputy prime minister, minister of justice and minister of economic affairs
1995-2007: Director for justice and home affairs at the EU Council Secretariat
2007: EU counter-terrorism co-ordinator
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