Patrick Develtere

Patrick Develtere (born August 26, 1961 in Roeselare) succeeded Jan Renders in September 2010 as president of beweging.net, (formerly ACW) a Belgian Christian Workers’ movement. He was nominated as the only candidate in March 2010. His nomination was confirmed during a Congress in Ghent.

Patrick Develtere got his PhD in Social Sciences in 1994 at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven with his thesis Co-operation and Development. Develtere teaches development co-operation at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Leuven. Before he took the mandate as president of ACW he was the director of the Research Institute for Work and Society (nl) (HIVA). This institute is a partnership between the University of Leuven and ACW. He has also been secretary general of Wereldsolidariteit (nl), the NGO of beweging.net (formerly ACW). During many years he was the editor in chief of the Gids op Maatschappelijk Gebied (nl), the monthly magazine of beweging.net.

From 1987 till 1990 he has been an associate expert with the International Labour Organization (ILO). He was connected to the ILO regional office in Port of Spain (Trinidad and Tobago) and to the liaison office of the ILO with the European Commission in Brussels.

• A Plea for Qualitative Growth: Qualityis better than more - Develtere P., De gids op maatschappelijk gebied, April 2016
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