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Biography
Yves Kreins (born 18 June 1952), a native of Sankt Vith, has since 2014 been the First President of the Belgian Council of State. This is the highest administrative court in the kingdom, with fourteen Chamber Presidents.
Kreins was appointed to the Council of State as a councillor in 1991. In 2014 he was appointed First President, in succession to Robert Andersen. He was sworn in on 20 January 2014 for a term ending 30 April 2017.
Since 1997 he has been lector of the Faculty of Law at the University of Liège. From 2000 to 2013 he was Secretary General of ACA Europe, the Association of Councils of State and Supreme Administrative Jurisdictions of the European Union.
In 2017 he has been appointed as judge of the Administrative Tribunal of the International Labour Organisation for a three-year mandate.
Honours
- 2015: Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Crown.
Publications
- Jacques Brassinne and Yves Kreins, "La réforme de l'état et la communauté germanophone", Courrier Hebdomadaire CRISP (Centre du Recherche et d'lnformation Socio-Politiques), 1028-9 (1984).
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| Preceded by Robert Andersen | First President of the Council of State 2014– | Succeeded by |