Board of Directors
Paul Geerlings
Emeritus Professor VUB
Vice-President & Treasurer
Nicolas Boel
Chairman of the Board of Directors of Solvay Group
Eric Boyer de la Giroday Honorary Chairman of the Board of Directors ING Belgium sa/nv
Daniel Janssen
Former Chairman of the Board of Directors of Solvay S.A.
Jean-Marie Solvay
President
Gino Baron
Emeritus Professor VUB
Secretary
Eric De Keuleneer
Former Chairman of the Board of Directors of the ULB
Pierre Gurdjian
Chairman of the Board of Directors of the ULB
Karsten De Clerck
Chairman of the Board of Directors of the VUB
Honorary members
Franz Bingen
Emeritus Professor VUB
Former Vice president and Treasurer of the
Solvay Institutes
Philippe Busquin
Minister of State
Former European Commissioner for Research
Eddy van Gelder
Former Chairman of the Board of Directors of the VUB
Jean-Louis Vanherweghem
Former Chairman of the Board of Directors of the ULB
Lode Wyns
Emeritus Professor VUB
Former Vice-rector for Research VUB
Former Deputy Director for Chemistry of the Solvay Institutes
Guests
Anne De Wit
Professor ULB
Scientific Secretary of the International Committee for Chemistry
Gert Desmet
Professor ULB
Deputy Director for Chemistry
Marc Henneaux
Professor ULB
Director
Franklin Lambert
Emeritus Professor VUB
Alexandre Sevrin
Professor VUB
Deputy Director for Physics and Scientific Secretary of the International Committee for Physics
Marina Solvay
Chairwoman of the Archives Committee of the Solvay Institutes
Karel Velle
Secretary of the Royal Flemish Academy for Science and the Arts of Belgium
Didier Viviers
Secretary of the Royal Academy for Science and the Arts of Belgium
Presidents and Directors
Ernest Solvay, his son Armand Solvay and his grand-son Ernest-John Solvay successively presided over the destiny of the International Solvay Institutes until 1958. In 1958, the Institutes were restructured with the creation of the positions of "President" and "Director".
Presidents
1958-2010: Jacques Solvay
2010-present: Jean-Marie Solvay
Directors
1958-2003: Ilya Prigogine (Professor ULB, 1977 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry)
2003: André Jaumotte (Honorary Rector and Honorary President ULB)
2004-present: Marc Henneaux (Professor ULB)