- BELGIAN
- Born in 1947
- Qualified social worker (1969) and degree in social work from the Free University of Brussels in 1986. Dissertation title: Housing crisis andcollective action in towns and cities - supervisor Nicole Delruelle
- Founder of the housing service of Greater Brussels and of the action committee of the Northern District in Brussels (1968-1974)
- Head of the housing service of the Town Planning Authority of Greater Brussels (1974-1989)
- Sociology prize from the National Institute of Housing in 1971
- Head of the Housing Grant service of the Housing Administration of Brussels Capital (1989-present)
- President of the Housing Hub (a parastatal viewdata data bank)
- Coordinator, President and General Secretary of the association Revitalisation of Districts in Crisis in Europe and programme coordinator for Belgium (1989-1995). Thirty cities in ten countries. Belgian cities: Anderlecht, Charleroi, Genk. French cities: Mulhouse, Lyon, Béziers. English cities: Manchester, Paysley, Belfast
- Administrator of the social constituent of the local agreements within the Ministry of the Brussels-Capital Region and of the INTERREG programme “Four Cities” 1995-2001
- Coordinator of the WHO Healthy Cities Programme “Brussels, Healthy City-Region” and of the INTERREG programme “Neighbours of Europe”
- International Secretary of the ECDE (1989-1991) (European community development exchange) Seminars organised in Dublin (I), Letterkenny (I), Abergavenny, Caerphilly, Belfast (GB), Porto (P), Enschede (PB), Bari (I), Perudgia (I), Orebro (Su). Currently president of the network
- President of the association COPRODEV (Coordination for the promotion and defence of travellers)
- Part-time lecturer at the Higher Institute of Paramedical and Social Education (ISSHA) - Special issues regarding community work-local development
- Role of Social Engineer to the DSQ (social development of neighbourhoods) in Anderlecht (1989-1994)
- Member of the European Network for gypsies and travellers
- Publications on urban struggles and collective action and the problem of housing
- Co-author of a book on: urban struggles in Brussels
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