André Molitor was also a professor of public administration at the Université catholique de Louvain.
Molitor was born in Kermanshah, Qajar Persia, the son of a Belgian civil servant, established in Iran since 1901, on a mission of modernization of the Iranian customs.
In 1935, he obtained the title of Doctor in Law, and since 1937, pursued a career in the Belgian public office.
He was also the principal private secretary of the Minister Pierre Harmel and was the craftsman of the school pact of 1958, which ended a period of political dissension over the funding of secondary education.
Since the end of World War II, André Molitor directed La Revue Nouvelle, (E : New Review), a Christian Democrat publication in Belgium.