Simon Petermann, a doctor of political and diplomatic sciences granted by the Free University of Brussels (ULB), is an honorary professor at the University of Liège and the ULB. He has been President of the department of political sciences at the ULG and is at present Vice President of the International Academy of Geopolitics (Paris, France). He is a lecturer at the Royal Higher Institute for Defence in Belgium. A specialist on international issues, terrorism and its conflicts, he has been a guest professor in numerous European universities, in the United States, Brazil and Russia. He has also been special advisor on the Middle East to the Royal Institute for International Relations - Egmont (IRRI).He arranges training programmes, for magistrates and government officials of the federal police service and the agents of state security in Belgium, in the fields of international relations and geopolitics. He is currently an expert for tribunals on questions related to Islam. The author of several reports on the Guantanamo detention centre for the parliamentary assembly of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), he has visited the site on three occasions. He was a long standing observer for the European Union for the Palestinian elections of 20th January, 1996, and, more recently political advisor to the Gaza strip EUBAM (European Union Border Assistance Mission) (2008). He has also carried out missions in various eastern European countries and in the ex-Yugoslavia for the Council of Europe.

Selection of publications

Petermann S., Guantánamo. Les dérives de la guerre contre le terrorisme, Bruxelles, éd. André Versaille, 2009.

Petermann S. (and coll.), Les 100 discours qui ont marqué le XXe siècle, Bruxelles, éd. André Versaille, 2008.

Petermann S., Les services de renseignement en Belgique et les nouvelles menaces (dir.), Bruxelles, éd. Politeia, 2005.

Petermann S., La coopération militaire entre la Russie et les pays de la CEI (en russe), Editions de l’Université de Saint-Pétersbourg, 2002.

Petermann S., Devenir citoyen : initiation à la vie démocratique, Bruxelles, De Boeck, 3e édition, 2001.

Simon Petermann, Le Processus de paix au Moyen-Orient, Paris, PUF, « Que sais-je ?», n° 3034, 1995.