!!!Karel Velle \\ %%(float:left;margin-left:20px;margin-right:30px;) [{Image src='velle_karel.jpg' alt='Karel Velle' height='200'}] %% [{AcadMemberDataPlugin}] \\ \\ \\ \\ __Present and Previous Positions__ * 2005 - today National Archivist (=director-general of the National Archives and State Archives in the Provinces) * 2004 - 2005 Advisor, later vice-director of the cabinet of the Minister of Science Policy ([http://www.belspo.be]) (federal government) * 2003 - today Part-time senior lecturer at the department of history of Ghent University * 2001 - 2003 Part-time cabinet member of the Minister of Justice * 2001 - 2002 Visiting lecturer at the department of modern history of Ghent University * 1993 - today Career at the State Archives (senior assistant: 1 February 1993; Senior archivist: 1 December 1995 * 1991 - 1992 Lecturer at the faculty of medicine of the Rijksuniversiteit Gent (academic year 1991-1992) * 1989 - 1993 Contractual attaché and assistant at the State Archives, training at the National Archives in Brussels, later at the State Archives in Beveren * 1984 - 1988 Aspirant at the Nationaal Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek NFWO [[National funds for scientific research] – posted at the department of modern history of the Rijksuniversiteit Gent * 1981 - 1983 Teacher in secondary education: history, Dutch, aesthetics \\ __Fields of Scholarship__ [{AcadMemberFOScholarshipPlugin}] \\ __Honours and Awards__ *2010 Member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for the Sciences and the Arts *2007 Member of the Royal Historical Commission (Royal Decree of 14 April 2008) *2006 - 2010 Member of the Executive Board and president of the Audit Commission ACOM of the International Council on Archives (); since September 2010 only member of ACOM; since then secretary-general of EURBICA, the European ‘branch’ of the International Council on Archives and member of the ‘Working group on displaced archives’ *2005 Member of the Executive Board of the The Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO-Vlaanderen) *2005 Member of the Executive Board of the Belgisch Historisch Instituut te Rome (Belgian Historical Institute in Rome) *2001 - 2007 Member of the historical commission of the Province East-Flanders *Member of different executive boards of local or regional historical associations \\ %%columns-900 %%coolborders-140-70 [{Image src='User/paper_content_pencil_48.png' width='48px' class='image_left'}] [Curriculum Vitae |User/Velle_Karel/CV] %% ---- %%coolborders-140-70 [{Image src='User/book_48.png' class='image_left'}] [Publication list|User/Velle_Karel/Publications] %% ---- %%coolborders-140-70 [{Image src='User/camera_noflash_48.png' width='48px' class='image_left'}] [Highlights of my work and anecdotes|User/Velle_Karel/Highlight] %% ---- %%coolborders-140-70 [{Image src='User/database_48.png' class='image_left'}] [Other information|User/Velle_Karel/OtherInformation] %% %% [{ALLOW view All}] [{ALLOW edit kvelle}] [{ALLOW upload kvelle}] [{ALLOW comment All}]