EDUCATION
– PhD of international law, Ghent University, the greatest distinction June 1986
Relevant Coursework: Financial economy
Relevant research experience:
– Internship at the African Development Bank, Abidjan – Internship at the Inter-American Development Bank, Washington DC – Research at Belgian Treasury May 1983
June 1985
1982-1986
RELEVANT PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
LEGAL SECTOR
Attorney, at the bars of Antwerp and Gent 1978-1986
Relevant work: court proceedings, maritime law
ACADEMIC SECTOR
Researcher at the Department of International Law, Gent University Professor of International Law, Free University of Amsterdam 1982-1991
1988-1991
Professor of European Integration, Vesalius College, Free University of Brussels 1995-2000
Professor of International Law, Gent University 1990-2011
Teachings: general international law; international humanitarian law; European Organizations
Professor at Vesalius College, Free University of Brussels 2011-2020
Teachings: Introduction to International and European Law, International humanitarian law, European organizations
FINANCIAL SECTOR
Consultant for the ‘finance & investment sector’ of the Southern African Development Community (12 states) 1993-2000
Relevant work: drafting of treaties and protocols on financial sector reform
Non-Executive Director and Member of the Investment Committee of the Belgian Investment Company for Overseas Investments (BIO-INVEST) 2001-2006
Relevant work: start-up of the investment company, drafting of operational
Guidelines, member of the investment committee
Non-Executive Director in de raad van bestuur van de Belgian Technical Cooperation (BTC) 1998 – 2006
Expert to the Ethiopian Parliament on financial reform 2000-2001
Relevant work: advice on the incorporation of global financial standards into the reform of the Ethiopian legal system – a special course for top officials
FOREIGN AFFAIRS
Special Envoy of the Belgian Minister of Foreign Affairs for DR Congo 1998-1999
Relevant work: report on the renewal of bilateral diplomatic relations after the seizing of power by Joseph Kabila and the civil war
Advisor of the Belgian Minister of Foreign Affairs 2004-2007
SUMMARY OF PUBLICATIONS
Marc Cogen, Country Report on Implementation of International Humanitarian Law in Belgium, in: Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law, 1998.
Marc Cogen, Handboek Internationaal Recht, Mys & Breesch, 1998.
Marc Cogen, The Impact of International Humanitarian Law on Current Security Policy Trends, ICRC congress proceedings, November 2001.
Marc Cogen, De militaire integratie van de Europese Unie, in: Internationale Spectator, n°6, June 2001.
Marc Cogen, Does Europe Really Want a Military Capacity?, in: Proceedings of the Conference on European Defence, Royal Military Academy, Brussels, 2002.
Marc Cogen, Handboek internationaal recht, third revised edition, 2003.
Marc Cogen, The European Union, Conflict Prevention and Multilateralism, in: Reflections on Emerging International Law: Essays in Memory of Late Subrata Roy Chowdhury, Bangalore, 2004.
Marc Cogen and Eric De Brabandere, Democratic Governance and Post-Conflict Reconstruction, in: Leiden Journal of International Law, 2007.
Marc Cogen, ‘The Comprehensive Guide to International Law’, Bruges, Die Keure, 2008.
Marc Cogen, Democracies and the Shock of War – The Law as a Battlefield, Farnham, Ashgate, 2012.
Marc Cogen, Membership, Associate Membership and Pre-accession Arrangements of CERN, ESO, ESA, and EUMETSAT, in: International Organizations Law Review, 2012.
Marc Cogen, An Introduction to European Intergovernmental Organizations, Farnham, Ashgate, 2015.
Marc Cogen, Self-Examination and the Old Testament, Eugene, Wipf & Stock, 2024.