PROF. DR. RAF VAN RANSBEECK

Prof. dr. Raf Van Ransbeeck (Ph.D.) started his career as a lawyer (advocate) at the bar of Dendermonde (Sint-Niklaas) in 1994, after which he was active in the academical world. In 2006 he was appointed as a judge at the Commercial Tribunal in Brussels (Juge au Tribunal de commerce de Bruxelles) and was promoted in 2012 to judge at the Court of Appeal of Brussels (Conseiller à la cour d'appel de Bruxelles). He also had some additional commitments as a magistrate, such as member of the Management board of Belgian section of the International Union of Magistrates and member of the Civil European Judicial Network (EJN) in Belgium. Prof. dr. Van Ransbeeck is also organizer of various seminars and conferences as well as editor of various academic articles and books.

Since November 2015, Prof. dr. Van Ransbeeck serves as the director of the Belgian Judicial Training Institute , which he combines with a 20% part-time job as professor (assistant professor) at a Belgian university. In his capacity as director, he has been elected Chair of the Steering Committee of the European Judicial Training Network (EJTN) for the mandate 2026-2028, and he also convenes EJTN’s Exchange working group. Furthermore, IGO-IFJ is a member of the Euro-Arab Judicial Training Network (EAJTN) and Prof. dr. Van Ransbeeck has chaired and vice-chaired the Network on behalf of IGO-IFJ between 2019 and 2024.

In 2021, he was appointed, in his personal capacity, as one of the 25 members of the Expert Group on European Judicial Training within the European Commission for a renewable term of four years.

Since November 2022, Prof. dr. Van Ransbeeck also serves as Deputy Secretary-General of the International Organization for Judicial Training (IOJT).