Gilles de Kerchove
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Gilles de Kerchove (born on the 3rd October 1956 in Uccle, Belgium) is a Senior European Official. Director of Justice and Home Affairs (HJA) in the Council Secretariat of the European union from 1995 - 2007, he has since been appointed as coordinator of the fight against terrorism in the EU, succeeding Gijs de Vries.
He obtained his law degree at the Catholic University of Louvain-la-Neuve in 1979 and later followed a Masters in Law at Yale Law School in 1984.
He joined the European Commission in 1985 as an administrator in Directorate General IV for Competition. From 1986 to 1995, he worked for the Belgian Government, as Chief of Staff of the Deputy Prime Minister and various ministries.
In his role as Director of JHA, he had central role in negotiations for Eurojust and the European arrest warrant. Since 2007, he is coordinator of the fight against terrorism in the EU. He was also Deputy Secretary of the Convention which drafted the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union from 1999 to 2000.
In addition to its administrative activities, he is also a lecturer in law at several universities in Belgium, particularly in Leuven and Brussels