UCLouvain is Belgium's largest French-speaking university. It is located in Louvain-la-Neuve,which was expressly built to house the university,and Brussels,Charleroi,Mons,Tournai and Namur. Since September 2018,the university uses the branding UCLouvain,replacing the acronym UCL,following a merger with Saint-Louis University,Brussels.
Philippe Van Parijs is a Belgian political philosopher and political economist,best known as a proponent and main defender of the concept of an unconditional basic income and for the first systematic treatment of linguistic justice.
Jean Tirole is a French economist who is currently a professor of economics at Toulouse 1 Capitole University. He focuses on industrial organization,game theory,banking and finance,and psychology. In particular,he focuses on the regulation of economic activity in a way that does not hinder innovation while maintaining fair rules.
The Louvain School of Management is the international business school of the University of Louvain (UCLouvain),Belgium,founded in 1897. The faculty offers courses on the campuses of Louvain-la-Neuve,UCLouvain FUCaM Mons and UCLouvain Charleroi.
Ugo Mattei is the Alfred and Hanna Fromm Professor of International and Comparative Law at the University of California,Hastings College of the Law,in San Francisco,California,and a full professor of civil law in the University of Turin,Italy. He is the academic coordinator of the International University College of Turin,Italy,a school where issues of law and finance in global capitalism are critically approached. He is also a columnist for the Italian newspapers Il Manifesto and Il Fatto Quotidiano. For his ground-breaking studies on the commons,in 2017 Mattei won the Elinor Ostrom Award for the Collective Governance of the Commons.
Tullio De Mauro was an Italian linguist and politician. De Mauro was Professor Emeritus of General Linguistics at the Sapienza University of Rome,and held the post of Italian Minister of Education from 2000 to 2001.
The University of Namur or Universitéde Namur (UNamur) is a Jesuit university in Namur,in the French Community of Belgium. Both teaching and research in the university are carried out by six faculties.
UCLouvain Saint-Louis Brussels is an autonomous university campus specialized in social and human sciences part of UCLouvain and based in Brussels,Belgium.
Shlomo Weber is an economics professor and president,New Economic School in Moscow,Russia;Academic Director of the Center for Study of Diversity and Social Interactions at NES;Robert H. and Nancy Dedman Trustee Professor of Economics Department of Economics,Southern Methodist University.
Sabino Cassese is an Italian jurist,former minister for the public function in the Ciampi government (1993–1994),and judge of the Constitutional Court of Italy (2005–2014).
Ivan Petrella is an Argentine social theorist and liberation theologian. He is the Secretary of Culture in Argentina's Ministry of Culture and currently teaches at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella in Buenos Aires,Argentina. He was an associate professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Miami in Coral Gables,Florida and co-executive editor of the “Reclaiming Liberation Theology”book series with SCM Press.
Bruno Amoroso was a Danish/Italian economist,author,and Emeritus Professor of Economics at the Department of Society and Globalization of the Roskilde University. He was internationally best known for his work on globalisation.
Josep Acebillo is a Spanish architect and is currently Research Professor at the University Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. He obtained his Architecture degree from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (ETSAB-1974).
Alberto Martinelli is a scholar of social sciences,President of the International Social Science Council,former 14th president of the International Sociological Association (1998-2002) and professor of Political Science and Sociology at the University of Milan.
Michel Weber is a Belgian philosopher. He is best known as an interpreter and advocate of the philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead,and has come to prominence as the architect and organizer of an overlapping array of international scholarly societies and publication projects devoted to Whitehead and the global relevance of process philosophy.
KU Leuven is a Catholic research university in the city of Leuven,Belgium. Founded in 1425,it is the oldest university in Belgium and the oldest university in the Low Countries.
Philippe R. DeVillé is a Belgian economist,and Emeritus Professor of Economics at the University of Louvain,known for his contributions in the field of socioeconomic systems theory in collaboration with Tom R. Burns and others.
The Faculty of Economic,Social and Political Sciences and Communication (ESPO) is a faculty of the University of Louvain,located on the campuses of Louvain-la-Neuve,FUCaM Mons and UCLouvain Charleroi. It originates in the School of Political and Social Sciences founded by Jules Van den Heuvel in Louvain in 1892. With over 6000 students,it is UCLouvain's largest faculty.
The Louvain School of Engineering or École polytechnique de Louvain (EPL) is a faculty of the University of Louvain,Belgium,founded in 1864. Known as the Faculty of Applied Sciences prior to 2008,it currently operates on the campuses of Louvain-la-Neuve and UCLouvain Charleroi.
Jean-Claude Willame is a Belgian professor emeritus specialised in the political history of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He obtained his PhD in political science at the University of California,Berkeley in 1971. He was a professor at the Universiténationale du Zaïre from 1971 to 1975. In 1989,he was the deputy director of the Centre d'études et de documentation africaines (CEDAF),which developed into the contemporary history section at the Royal Museum for Central Africa in Tervuren. He retired as a professor at the UCLouvain Faculty of Economic,Social and Political Sciences and Communication at the UniversitéCatholique de Louvain. As an independent expert within the Coimbra Group,Willame went to Congo-Kinshasa and Congo-Brazzaville to study opportunities of cooperation between the European Union and ACP countries.
