Bart De Schutter is a Belgian scientist and was a member of the Coudenberg group a federalist think tank.
In addition he obtained a MA in Political and Diplomatic Sciences from the Universite Libre de Bruxelles in 1960.
In Strasbourg (France), he followed the Special Programme on European Organizations at the Faculté Internationale pour l'Enseignement du Droit Comparé and in Geneva the United Nations International Law Commission Seminar.
He also co-initiated a similar programme at the Anglia Polytechnic University (Law School at Cambridge) of which he is Honorary Fellow.
In 2001, he became the founding President of the Institute for European Studies of the VUB, until he got replaced by Karel de Gucht in 2015.