His Excellency Jean-Arthur Régibeau, current ambassador of Belgium to the United States, will speak on BYU campus.
Ambassador Régibeau studied law, international law and international relations in Belgium, the Netherlands, and Italy. After a few years of working for private business and as a legal advisor, he joined the Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1998. He was the diplomatic advisor to the Minister of Defense from 1999 to 2002 and he went on to be First Secretary at the Belgian Embassy in Berlin. From 2003–2007, Mr. Régibeau returned to Brussels as Head of the Private Office of the Minister of Defense. In 2007, he was appointed Director General in charge of Multilateral Organizations at the Foreign Ministry; he was also Deputy Commissioner for the commemoration of World War I. In 2016, he took up a role as Ambassador to the Russian Federation, Armenia, Belarus, and Uzbekistan.