To be elected

Thomas Leysen

Master in Law (University of Leuven-Belgium), Thomas Leysen started his career in the maritime business in Hamburg, London and Tokyo, then within the Transcor group.  In 1989, he joined Société Générale de Belgique and restructured their international trading activities.  He joined Umicore in 1993 as member of the Executive Committee, and successively managed several industrial divisions.  He became Executive Vice President of the company in 1998.  He has been the Chief Executive Officer of Umicore since May 2000.   Thomas Leysen is also Chairman of the Board of Corelio, director of CMB and IMEC and member of the Supervisory Board of Bank Metzler in Frankfurt.

Jean-Pierre Kinet

Jean-Pierre Kinet holds a medical degree (MD) from the University of Liège. He is currently a full Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School and at one of the Harvard affiliated hospitals, the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. He is a member of numerous Harvard, US and International committees such as various National Institutes of Health (NIH) expert panels and the International Strategic Committee of Biowin (Health Cluster of Wallonia). He has a large experience in the research and development of novel therapies and is a board member of several biotechnology companies.
 

Armand De Decker

Armand De Decker holds a Master of Law Degree from the University of Brussels (ULB - Belgium) and started as a lawyer.  In parallel, as from 1979, he pursued a political career within the Liberal Party ("Parti Réformateur Liberal").   In 1981, he was elected to the Belgian Chamber of Representatives where he served until 1995.  In 1995, he was elected to the Belgian Senate, and re-elected in 1999, 2003 and 2007. He served as President of the Council of the Brussels-Capital Region from 1995 to 1999. And from 1999 to 2004 he was President of the Senate.  From July 20, 2004, he served as the Minister responsible for International Development Cooperation in the Belgian Federal Government.  Armand De Decker currently is Mayor of Uccle (a commune of Brussels) and has been re-elected President of the Senate since July 12, 2007.  Mr. De Decker has received numerous special recognitions from many countries for different contributions (a.o.Belgian, France, Spain, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Italy, Mexico,...) and has various mandates in organizations such as "Alzheimer Belgian Association", Belgian Royal Institute of International Relations, Belgian Center of
Reference for the Central Africa Expertise.

Norman J-Ornstein

Norman J. ORNSTEIN is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research based in Washington D.C., USA, and counsels government campaign commissions.  He also serves as an election analyst for CBS News and writes in several US newspapers in parallel to having published several books related to US politics.  Mr. Ornstein has a B.A. from the University of Minnesota, from which he also received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree, and a M.A. and PhD from the University of Michigan.  He served as a member the Board of the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) and is currently on the Board of Directors of the Campaign Legal Center, as well as of the Board of Trustees of the US Capitol Historical Society.