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Fulbright Alumnus Koen Lenaerts Elected President of the EU Court of Justice

Herman De Croo, Minister of State, Françoise Meunier, Director General of EORTC, Judge Koen Lenaerts, Court of Justice of the European Union, and Margaret Nicholson, Executive Director, Commission for Educational Exchange between the United States of America, Belgium and Luxembourg during Margaret Nicholson’s Retirement Gala in 2012.
Herman De Croo, Minister of State, Françoise Meunier, Director General of EORTC, Judge Koen Lenaerts, Court of Justice of the European Union, and Margaret Nicholson, Executive Director, Commission for Educational Exchange between the United States of America, Belgium and Luxembourg during Margaret Nicholson’s Retirement Gala in 2012.

We have some very exciting news in the world of Fulbright Belgium this week! Mr.
Koen Lenaerts, an alumnus of Fulbright, has just been elected to be the President of the Court of
Justice of the European Union on October 8, 2015, and Mr. Lenaerts will be
serving as President until October 6, 2018. Previous to being elected President, Mr. Lenaerts was
the Vice President of the Court of Justice of the European Union since October 2012, and he was
also a judge at the Court since 2003. Mr. Lenaerts has also been a full professor of European
Law at KU Leuven since 1983. After studying law at KU Leuven, Mr. Lenaerts was awarded a
Fulbright Grant to study at Harvard University from 1977-1978. At Harvard, Mr. Lenaerts
received a Masters of Law and a Master in Public Administration. We are very proud of our
Fulbright alumna Koen Lenaerts, and we wish him much success in his new position as the
President of the Court of Justice of the European Union.