Ambassador Jean de Ruyt
Adviser
Jean was the Permanent Representative of Belgium to the European Union and served as a foreign policy advisor to the European Union's High Representative and Vice-President Baroness Ashton. Prior to that, he was Ambassador to Italy and Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York, where he led the EU response to the events of 9/11. He is an Associate Fellow at the Egmont Institute and a member of the Royal Academy of Belgium.