Diplomatic Coffee Chat with Ambassador Jean-Arthur Régibeau
The BMW Center for German and European Studies and BMW Group DC invite you to:
Shifting Global Dynamics – Europe’s Competitiveness, Security, and Global Relations: Belgium’s Priorities during the EU Council Presidency
with Ambassador Jean-Arthur Régibeau
Ambassador of the Kingdom of Belgium to the United States of America
Coffee and pastries will be served. RSVP here
Ambassador Jean-Arthur Régibeau has been Ambassador of Belgium to the United States since September 17, 2020.
He was born in 1962 in Liège, though he holds both Belgian and Swiss citizenships. He studied at the State University of Liège, where he obtained his Master’s degree in Law. He then obtained a Certificate in International Law from the State University of Leiden in the Netherlands. A year after that, he joined Johns Hopkins University’s SAIS program in Bologna, Italy, where he received a diploma in International Relations.
Early in his career, Mr. Régibeau worked for a Belgian bank in New York in 1987-1988. Working for a tour operator, he escorted groups of Belgian tourists visiting the United States in 1991 and 1992. Then, after a few years of working for private business and later as a legal advisor, Jean-Arthur Régibeau joined the Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1998.
He was the diplomatic advisor to the Minister of Defense from 1999 to 2002 and he went on to be First Secretary at the Belgian Embassy in Berlin. From 2003-2007, Mr. Régibeau returned to Brussels as Head of the Private Office of the Minister of Defense. In 2007, he was appointed Director general in charge of Multilateral Organizations at the Foreign Ministry. In this capacity, he managed some aspects of the Belgian presidency of the European Union in 2010. From 2012-2016, he also was Deputy Commissioner for the commemoration of World War I. In 2016, he took up his role as Ambassador to the Russian Federation, Armenia, Belarus & Uzbekistan.
Ambassador Régibeau speaks 4 languages fluently: French, Dutch, English, and German, and adds some Italian and Russian to his language repertoire. He also enjoys playing soccer, hiking, strategy games, history, and literature.