Professor at the Catholic University of Louvain and at ICHEC
Lecturer at the University of Paris X Nanterre
Visiting professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (V.U.B.) (Arbitration law)
Member of the Jury for the thesis defense of Mr. Dave Mertens “Vrije en eerlijke mededinging en de bescherming van inspanningen buiten het (intellectuele) eigendomsrecht” at the University of Antwerp (October 4, 2010)
Editor-in-chief of the Business Law Review (DAOR)
Member of the Editorial Committee of the Revue de Jurisprudence Liège, Mons, Brussels (responsible for the Civil Liability column)
Member of the editorial committee of the Handeslcontract series of the Larcier Group
Member of the Editorial Committee of the Revue Générale de Droit civil (Contracts and Obligations)
Member of the scientific committee of Businesslawtele.net
2000 – to date: Associate Lawyer, “Philippe & Partners”, member of the Brussels Bar and the Luxembourg Bar
1999 – 2000: Associate lawyer, “Simonet, Kelder, Philippe, Domont, Lories, Mertens”, Brussels
1984 – 1999: Associate lawyer, “Balon, Buyle, Maingain & Philippe, Brussels
1977 – 1984: Lawyer at the Brussels bar, collaborator of Professor R.O. DALCQ (Janson Baugniet association)
Member of the council of the Institute of European Law
Member of the French group “Transeurope Experts”
Participation as a lawyer in the “Forum on specifications for sustainable food for communities” (Bioforum – Gembloux) – March 9, 2009
Member of the coordinating committee of the von Bar commission on the standardization of contract law, a commission comprising university professors from different countries of the European Union and a commission whose work is financed by the European Union. Participation in the seminar in Warsaw on May 19, 2004., in Milan in December 2004, in Berlin in June 2005 and Tartu (Estonia) in December 2005, in Luzern December 2006; in Prague December 2007.
Assistance since 1960 to Central European countries in the transposition of directives (All Central European countries, management of a team of lawyers and university professors between 1999 and 2000 in Slovakia).
Member of the International Contracts group led by Professors Fontaine and de Ly.
Administrator of the Belgian Nuclear Association
Chairman of the board of directors of the Huyghebaert company (since 2002)
2001 – 2002: director of the company Vandemoortele (Kortrijk)
Member of the examination committee of the Institute of Company Auditors