Speakers

Sigurd Schelstraete is currently the Director of Disarmament and Non-Proliferation at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Belgium. This Division coordinates the arms control policy of Belgium in both the conventional and weapons of mass destruction field. It also performs the tasks of National Authority under the Chemical Weapons Convention.

S. Schelstraete is a career diplomat. His last foreign posting was as deputy chief of mission at the Embassy in Washington DC. Previously, he served at the Belgian Delegation to the Political and Security Committee of the European Union, at the Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York and at the Embassy in Kigali. He started his career as member of the “Former Yugoslavia coordination team” during the Belgian presidency of the EU in 1993.