Geert Muylle

Diplomat

September 2009 – Ambassador, permanent representative of Belgium to NATO

February 2009 – September 2009: Ambassador, permanent representative of Belgium to the Political and Security committee of the European Union

March 2008 - end 2008: diplomatic advisor to the Prime minister

January 2008 – March 2008: diplomatic advisor to the vice Prime minister and Minister of the budget of the Belgian federal government 

September 2004 – December 2007: deputy chief of staff / diplomatic advisor to the Minister president of the Flemish government

September 2002 - September 2004: Counsellor at the Permanent representation of Belgium to the European Union – coordinator for Home and Justice Affairs 

August 1998 – August 2002: Consul General of Belgium in Lille (Northern France)

February 1997 – July 1998: advisor for international affairs to the Justice Minister in the federal government

April 1994 – January 1997: First Secretary at the Permanent representation of Belgium to the United Nations in Geneva

June 1993 - March 1994: political advisor to the European Community Monitor Mission in the former Yugoslavia – following: head of the Belgian delegation to the same mission

October 1990 – May 1993: Second Secretary at the Belgian embassy in Warsaw

October 1988 – June 1990: diplomatic training, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

First laureate of the state diplomatic exam session 1987

Lawyer

October 1986 – July 1987

Education

1974-1980 - Secondary school Latin-Greek

1980-1985 - Law degree (licence, now master), Catholic University of Louvain 

1985-1986 - international relations and compared politics (postgraduate degree), Catholic University of Louvain-la-Neuve    2001-2002 - management (postgraduate degree), Catholic University of Louvain       

Married to Veronique Couckuyt
Three children: Thibaut, Olivier and Marie

Dutch (mother tongue), French, English, German