Dr. Luk Van Langenhove

Director of the United Nations University Institute on Comparative Regional Integration Studies (UNU-CRIS)

Representative of the Rector at UNESCO in Paris

Institute: UNU-CRIS
Office: UNU-CRIS Potterierei 72, 8000 Brugge, Belgium
E-mail: lvanlangenhove (@) cris.unu.edu
Phone: +32 50 47 11 00
Fax: +32 50 47 13 09






PROFILE

Research Interests

Regional integration
Social sciences theory


Education

Ph.D., Psychology, Free University of Brussels


Appointments

Vice-President of the International Social Sciences Council
Lecturer at the VUB, ULB and the College of Europe


Biographical Statement

Luk Van Langenhove (BE) is Director of the United Nations University Institute on Comparative Regional Integration Studies (UNU-CRIS) in Bruges and Representative of the Rector at UNESCO in Paris. Before he was Deputy Secretary-General of the Belgian Federal Ministry of Science Policy, Deputy Chief of Cabinet of the Belgian Federal Minister of Science Policy and a researcher and lecturer at the Free University of Brussels (VUB). Since 2006 he is Vice-President of the International Social Sciences Council. He currently teaches at the VUB, ULB and the College of Europe.

Professor Van Langenhove is a graduate of the Free University of Brussels and received his Ph.D. in Psychology from the same university.

He has published widely on regional integration, social sciences theory, positioning theory and psychology. Recent books include People and Societies (Routledge, 2010), World-Regional Social Policy and Global Governance (with Deacon, Yeates and Macovei, Routledge, 2010).

He is the author of Innovating the Social Sciences (2007), De Benelux: Tijd voor een Wedergeboorte? (with Wouters et al., 2006), Positioning Theory (with Harré, 1998). He is also the editor of The EU as a Global Player: The Politics of Interregionalism (with Söderbaum, 2006), Global Politics of Regionalism: Theory and Practice (with Farrell and Hettne, 2005), Integrating Africa: Perspectives on Regional Integration and Development (with Van Ginkel and Court, 2003).

Personal website of Luk Van Langenhove to be consulted at www.lukvanlangenhove.be