Biographie

Françoise Tulkens holds a doctorate in law, a degree in criminology and a higher education diploma. She was a professor at the University of Louvain and taught, both in Belgium and abroad, general and special criminal law, comparative and European criminal law, youth protection law and human rights protection systems. She was the president of the School of Criminology and the Department of Criminal Law and Criminology. A judge at the European Court of Human Rights from November 1998 to September 2012, she served as Section President and Vice-President of the Court. Since 2011, she is an associate member of the Royal Academy of Belgium (Technology and Society Class). From 2011 to 2015, she was president of the King Baudouin Foundation. In September 2012, she was appointed member of the United Nations Human Rights Advisory Panel for Kosovo. Since 2016 she has been successively Vice President and President of the Federal Ethics Commission. In 2017, she was president of the International Monsanto Tribunal organized by civil society in The Hague. She is currently an expert of the Interministerial Commission on Women’s Rights. She is an honorary doctor of the Universities of Geneva, Limoges, Ottawa, Ghent, Liège and Brighton.