Professor David Renders, UCLouvain,  is the current director of the Centre Montesquieu d’études de l’action publique, the honorary president of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Research in Legal and Criminological Sciences (2023 to 2024) and the honorary vice-dean of the Faculty of Law and Criminology in charge of relations with professional circles (2009 to 2012 and 2020 to 2023). He teaches general administrative law, administrative litigation, public policy law and administrative law in relation to European integration and is the author or co-author of more than three hundred books and contributions published in Europe, Canada, Brazil and Japan.