20th Anniversary Dinner Reception at Brussels Town Hall
Theodora Gentzis is secretary general and president of the board of directors of the Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation. She was previously director-general for European affairs, ensuring that Belgium is in a position to defend its interests within the EU by coordinating with the country’s stakeholders at the federal and federated level.
Gentzis served as adviser to the minister of foreign and European affairs, overseeing European issues and relations with partner countries in the EU’s east and southeast; and as counsellor for EU enlargement, the EU’s Eastern Partnership, and relations between the EU and neighboring countries in the EU Directorate-General for External Relations. She was a member of the administrative board of the European Fund for Democracy and a delegate to the European Committee for the Neighbourhood Program. Her other positions included counsellor in the Directorate for Internal Market and Transport, Telecom and Energy; and desk officer in the Directorate-General for Coordination and European Integration.
Gentzis holds a master’s degrees in European studies and in political science from the Institute of European Studies at the Université Catholique de Louvain, and a bachelor's degree in economics, politics, and social sciences from the Faculté Universitaire Saint-Louis.