Pascale VIELLE

Pascale Vielle is a professor of social law at the Catholic University of Louvain (UCL-Iacchos, ESPO and DROI) since 1998. Of Belgian and Swiss nationality, she holds a law degree from the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and a doctorate in law from the European University Institute of Florence. She worked as a researcher at the ULB (1988-1989) - where she is still a scientific collaborator - and at the University of Geneva (1994-1998). She was the first director of the Federal Institute for the Equality of Women and Men from 2004 to 2006 (similar to the Halde in France). She worked at the European Commission (1989-1990), at the International Labour Organization (1992-1994), and was a member of the Belgian High Council of Justice from 2008 to 2016. Pascale Vielle is a member of the scientific committees/boards of the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme Ange-Guépin, in Nantes; the European Trade Union Institute; the Belgian Social Security Review; and the SH2 Panel (starting grants) at the European Research Council (2010-2018). She commits her scientific expertise to several initiatives and citizen movements in Belgium and worldwide. Her research and teaching focus on international and European social protection law and policy, as well as on the gender approach to law. She is currently working on the articulation of social and environmental policies from an ecofeminist perspective.