Marie-Claire, Baroness Foblets is a Belgian lawyer and anthropologist, who is currently Director of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology[1] and Professor at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.
[2] Her research interests are interculturalism, migration and minorities.
[3] In 2004, she was awarded the Francqui Prize on Human Sciences for her research on anthropology.
[4] In 2016, the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven gave her an honorary degree.
[5] She is a member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences[6] and an Honorary Professor of Law and Anthropology, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany.