from the Yale Law School and a Diplôme d’Etudes Supérieures Européennes (D.E.S.)
Verbeke joined the Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1981 and has served in various capacities for his country's foreign service, including as Chairman of the Security Council Sanctions Committees on Côte d'Ivoire, Iran and Al Qaida/Taliban, leader of the Security Council Mission to Kosovo (April 2007), Facilitator of the President of the General Assembly for the negotiation of General Assembly-resolutions on Millennium Development Goals-implementation and Economic and Social Council-reform (2005–2006), Personal Representative of the Minister of Foreign Affairs for Counter-Terrorism (2003), Special Envoy of the Prime Minister to the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) (2002–2005).
Verbeke was the permanent representative of Belgium to the United Nations and to its Security Council.
Later, Verbeke was the Secretary-General's Special Representative and Head of the UN Observer Mission in Georgia (UNOMIG) in 2008–09.
[3] From 2014 to 2015, Johan Verbeke was the Belgian Ambassador to the United States in Washington, D.C.[1] Afterwards, he became the director general of the think tank Egmont Institute.