Frans van Daele

Franciskus Romanus Rumoldus, Baron van Daele (born October 24, 1947, in Oostburg) is a Belgian diplomat who served as the private secretary of His Majesty's Cabinet.

[1][2] Franciskus (Frans) van Daele has a master's degree in philosophy and arts (Romance philology) from the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium.

Between these two postings he served a second time at Belgium's Permanent Mission to the EU (as Antici, i.e. Chief of Staff to the Ambassador) and then in 1984-86 as press spokesman of the Foreign Ministry under Minister Leo Tindemans.

Between 2002 and 2006, van Daele served as Belgium's Ambassador to the US, where he closely followed American political and economic developments under the first and the second George W. Bush administrations.

He gave occasional lectures at the universities of Brussels, Liège, Antwerp and Ghent, and he cooperated on a regular basis with his alma mater, the University of Leuven (post-graduate program in European Studies, and occasional lectures in the faculty of Law and Political Sciences) of which he presides the Alumni Association (Alumni Lovanienses) since 2008.

He has been invited as a Distinguished Fellow of Johns Hopkins’ SAIS In Washington and in 2013 he taught a special Seminar on the European Council at the College d’Europe both in Bruges and in Natolin.

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