Karl-Heinz Lambertz

Contact:
Klötzerbahn 32
4700 Eupen
087 596.400
kab.lambertz@dgov.be

Chairman of the Council of the German-speaking Youth (1975-1980)
Chairman of the Socialist Group in the Council of the German-speaking Community of Belgium (1981-1990)
Member of the Parliament of the German-speaking Community (since 1981)
President of the Socialist Party of the German-speaking Community of Belgium (1984-1990)
Minister for Media, Adult Education, Policy for the Disabled, Social Aid and Professional Retraining (1990-1995)
Minister for Youth, Training, Media and Social Matters (1995-1999)
Minister-President, Minister for Employment, Policy for the Disabled, Media and Sports (1999-2004)
Minister-President, Minister for Local Authorities (since 2004)

Member of the Executive Board of the Socialist Party (PS) (since 1986)
Member of the Committee of the Regions (CoR), Commission for Culture, Education an Research (EDUC) and Commission for Economic and Social Policy (ECOS) (since 1999)
Member of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities (CLRAE - Chamber of Regions) (since 2000)
General reporter of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities (CLRAE) on gross-border cooperation (since 2006)
Chairman of the Working Group on Inter-regional cooperation at the CLRAE (since 2007)
Plenary Chair of the Committee on culture and education at the CLRAE (since 2008)
Member of the Bureau of the CoR (since 2009)
President of the Association of European Border Regions (AEBR) (since 2010)

Assistant professor at the Law department of the Catholic University of Louvain-La-Neuve (UCL) (1976-1980)
Consultant at the Office of the Minister for Institutional Reforms and deputy manager of Aerotech Ltd. (1980-1981)
Consultant for the SRIW (1981-1990)
Lecturer at the Faculty of Law of the UCL: (course: terminology of German law) (since 1988

Master in law and supplementary studies in German law at the University of Heidelberg (GER)

Belgian Presidency of the Council of the European Union