Education
Patrick Develtere got his Doctor of Philosophy in Social Sciences in 1994 at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven with his thesis Company-operation and Development.
Patrick Develtere got his Doctor of Philosophy in Social Sciences in 1994 at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven with his thesis Company-operation and Development.
He was nominated as the only candidate in March 2010. His nomination was confirmed during a Congress in Ghent. Develtere teaches development co-operation at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Leuven.
Before he took the mandate as president of ACW he was the director of the Research Institute for Work and Society (HIVA).
This institute is a partnership between the University of Leuven and ACW. He has also been secretary general of Wereldsolidariteit, the non-governmental organization of beweging.net (formerly ACW). During many years he was the editor in chief of the Gids op Maatschappelijk Gebied, the monthly magazine of beweging.net.
From 1987 till 1990 he has been an associate expert with the International Labour Organization (International Labor Organization). He was connected to the International Labor Organization regional office in Portuguese of Spain (Trinidad and Tobago) and to the liaison office of the International Labor Organization with the European Commission in Brussels.