Gilles de Kerchove d'Ousselghem (born 3 October 1956 in Uccle (Ukkel),

Belgium Belgium, ; french: Belgique ; german: Belgien officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe. The country is bordered by the Netherlands to the north, Germany to the east, Luxembourg to the southeast, France to th ...

) is a Belgian senior European Union official. He was director in the general directorate of

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(JHA) in the General Secretariat of the Council of the European Union from 1995 – 2007, he has since been appointed as EU Counter-terrorism Coordinator, succeeding

Gijs de Vries Gijsbert Marius "Gijs" de Vries (born 22 February 1956) is a retired Dutch-American politician and diplomat who served as State Secretary for the Interior and Kingdom Relations from 1998 to 2002 and European Union Counter-terrorism Coordinato ...

Biography

He obtained his law degree at the

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(UCLouvain) in 1979, later followed by a Masters in Law at

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in 1984. He joined the

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in 1985 as an administrator in Directorate General IV for Competition. From 1986 to 1995, he worked for the

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, as chief of staff of the

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and various ministries. During his time in office as director in the JHA sector, he had a central role in the negotiations for Eurojust and the European arrest warrant. Since 2007, he holds the office of EU Counter-Terrorism Coordinator. He was also Deputy Secretary of the Convention which drafted the

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from 1999 to 2000. In addition to his administrative duties, he is also a lecturer in law at several universities in

, particularly at the

(UCLouvain) in

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, at

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and the Université libre de Bruxelles (Brussels). In 1979 he married Anne del Marmol (15 April 1956) and has three children: Arnaud (1984), Thomas (1987) and Antoine (1988).

Political digital agenda

Since 2015 he is fighting encryption and demands backdoors.https://techxplore.com/news/2020-11-video-games-under-regulated-eu-anti-terror.html – Video games are 'under-regulated': EU anti-terror czar

References

External links

CV
on

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website in Brussels
EU Council – Fight against Terrorism
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