Law Degree at the University of Ghent, additional legal education in France, Germany, UK , US and Russia, member of the Bar of Brussels since 1974, member of the Brussels Bar's Council, teaching "MANAGEMENT AND IT" at the Bar's training-school, practising Belgian and International Commercial and Business Law requiring the proficiency in Dutch, French, German or English and sometimes of Russian, member of the editorial board and author in KLUWER UITGEVERS's, commercial legal form book for managers (type "Warren Forms of Agreement") with translations in French, German and English, member of the editorial board and author in RES ET JURA IMMOBILIA bilingual French/Dutch legal review on all aspects of real estate in Belgium, some publications in Russian, a.o. the translation of the EU Codex of the Rules of Conducts for Lawyers.