Patrick Develtere
Patrick Develtere (born August 26, 1961 in Roeselare, Belgium) is Professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Leuven (KU Leuven). From 2017 until the beginning of 2020 he was a principal adviser for European Social Policy at the European Political Strategy Centre (EPSC), the in-house think tank of the European Commission. Before joining the EPSC in 2017 he was the president of , (formerly ACW) the Belgian Christian Workers’ movement. Biography. Patrick Develtere got his PhD in Social Sciences in 1994 at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven) with his thesis "Co-operation and  Development". Develtere teaches international development co-operation at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Leuven. From 2010 until 2017 he was the president of ACW, now Beweging.net. Beweging.net, also known as the Christian Workers' Movement. Prior to this he was the director of the (HIVA). This institute is a partnership between the University of Leuven and Beweging.net. He has also been secretary general of , the NGO of beweging.net. During many years he was the editor in chief of the , the monthly magazine of beweging.net. From 1987 till 1990 he was an associate expert with the International Labour  Organization (ILO). He worked for the ILO regional office in Port of Spain (Trinidad and Tobago) and to the liaison office of the ILO with the European Commission in Brussels.