EGMONT – The Royal Institute for International Relations, also known as the Egmont Institute, is an independent and

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dedicated to

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on international relations. The main activities of the Egmont Institute include research, the organisation of events, and training for

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. The Institute is associated to the Foreign Ministry of Belgium, from which it receives a substantial part of its funding. The Egmont Institute furthermore receives funding from

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, membership fees and private partners.

History

In 1947, the Royal Institute for International Relations (the Institute’s original name) was founded by Belgian political leaders including

Paul van Zeeland Paul Guillaume, Viscount van Zeeland (11 November 1893 – 22 September 1973) was a Belgian lawyer, economist, Catholic politician and statesman who served as Prime Minister of Belgium from 1935 to 1937. Biography van Zeeland was born in Soi ...

, former

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; Prof. Charles de Visscher, member of the

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; Prof. Fernand Dehousse, member of the Belgian delegation to the Conference of San Francisco; and Prof. Henri Rolin,

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and

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.About Us
Egmont Institute In 2006, in the run up to its sixtieth anniversary, the Institute changed its name to “EGMONT – The Royal Institute for International Relations” referring to the

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, where many of its events are held.

List of presidents

* Charles De Visscher 1947–1958 * Fernand Van Langenhove 1958–1966 * Baron Snoy et d'Oppuers 1966–1977 *

Henri Simonet Henri François Simonet (10 May 1931 – 15 February 1996) was a Belgian politician. Born in Brussels, Henri Simonet studied law and economics at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), ULB and then went to Columbia University as CRB Graduate ...

1977–1983 * Baron de Strycker 1983–1987 * Burgrave Davignon 1988–2017 *

François-Xavier de Donnea François Xavier Gustave Marie Joseph Corneille Hubert, Knight de Donnea de Hamoir (born 29 April 1941 in Edegem, Antwerp) is a Belgian politician and a former mayor of the City of Brussels and Minister-President of the Brussels-Capital Region ...

2017–

Structure

The Egmont Institute is governed by the

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. The current President is Knight

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, and Vice-President of the Egmont Institute is Peter Moors, Permanent Secretary of the

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. Other members of the Board of Directors include prominent Belgian politicians, honorary ambassadors, public officials and

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. The current director general is Pol De Witte. About Arenberg room Egmont palace

Events

The Egmont Institute organizes various events, mostly in

. According to the Institute, its events aim to foster dialogue between researchers, policy-makers and

civil society Civil society can be understood as the "third sector" of society, distinct from government and business, and including the family and the private sphere.

Partnerships

The Egmont Institute is a lead partner in the European Strategic Partnerships Observatory and l’Observatoire de l'Afrique. It is also a member of the

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(ESDC), the Euro-Mediterranean Study Commission (EuroMeSCo), the

European Policy Institutes Network The European Policy Institutes Network (EPIN) is a network of 31 think tanks from most EU member states and beyond. Its main focus is on current EU and European political and policy debates. EPIN aims to contribute to the debate on the future of E ...

(EPIN), Think Global – Act European (TGAE), the Brussels Think Tank Dialogue (BTTD), Trans European Policy Studies Association (TEPSA), Europe-Africa Policy Research Network (EARN), and Expertise for Central Africa (E-CA). The institute regularly collaborates with the Belgian Royal High Institute for Defence. In 2012, the Egmont Institute and the

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launched the PhD Prize in European Defence, Security and Strategy.

Publications

EGMONT publishes the ''Egmont Papers'' and ''Policy Briefs''. They are accessible for free on thei
website

References

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