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Curriculum Vitae
Jean-Louis Schiltz was born on 14 August 1964 in Luxembourg.
He was elected to Parliament for the first time in the general elections of 13 June 2004 and appointed Minister for Development Cooperation and Humanitarian Affairs on 31 July 2004. At the same time he was put in charge of Communications. On 22 February 2006, he was entrusted a third ministerial portfolio, that of Defense. It was under his authority that Luxembourg’s army has entirely been reformed in 2007.
As Minister for Development Cooperation, Jean-Louis Schiltz was, during Luxembourg’s Presidency of the Council of the European Union during the first half-year of 2005, the key figure in negotiating the agreement whereby each Member State of the European Union will spend 0.7% of its gross domestic product on development aid by 2015. The negotiations on the revision of the Cotonou Agreement were also successfully concluded under his chairmanship, the signature of the Revised Cotonou Agreement took place in Luxembourg on 25 June 2005.
Since 6 September 2004, Jean-Louis Schiltz is governor of the Asian Development Bank.
As Minister of Communications, Jean-Louis Schiltz actively promotes Luxembourg in the fields of telecommunications and ICT. Minister Schiltz is also in charge of the development of the information and communication networks in Luxembourg. Thus he is the initiator of the LuxConnect project, a high bandwidth network between Luxembourg and primary foreign Internet access centres. LuxConnect aims to strengthen the international Internet connectivity of Luxembourg and to facilitate further investments into the sector of information and communication technologies.
From 2000 to 2006, Jean-Louis Schiltz was general secretary of the Christian Social Party. As general secretary he was the main driving force behind the new party program adopted in 2002. He was the campaign manager of his party for the general elections of June 2004 which have widely confirmed the Christian Social Party within the government. At present, Jean-Louis Schiltz is still a member of the party.
From 1989 to 2004, Jean-Louis Schiltz worked as a business lawyer at the Luxembourg Bar. As a lawyer, he joined the Young Bar Association and became in 1990 a member of the Committee. From 1997 to 1998 he held the post of chairman. He then became a member of the Bar Council.
Jean-Louis Schiltz has always combined his profession as a lawyer with his academic career. He worked as an academic assistant at the Law Faculty of the Université Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne and at the Centre universitaire de Luxembourg. He is also the author of a number of articles on banking and insurance law. From 1994 to 2004 he was the co-editor of the scientific journal Assurances et Responsabilité, which was edited by the Luxembourg section of the International Association of Insurance Law.
Jean-Louis Schiltz received a Master of Law and a postgraduate diplôme d’études approfondies (DEA) in business law at the Université Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne. In 1991 he passed the bar exam first in his class.
Keen on sports, Jean-Louis Schiltz was a Luxembourg team champion of fencing in 1983 and regularly goes running.
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