Born in Brussels the 07.03.25, Diplomas in Philosophy and Theology (Mayor Seminary of Malines, 1943-1949); Ordained priest in 1949;. Licence in Social and Political Sciences (Catholic University of Louvain, 1952); Postgraduate studies in Sociology at the University of Chicago (1952-1953); Graduated of the Internationl Institute of Applied City Planning (Brussels, 1954); PhD in Sociology (Catholic University of Louvain, 1974).

Professor emeritus of the Catholic University of Louvain (1990); Honorary Professor of the National Institute of Higher Studies of Ecuador (IAEN from 2013) ; Invited professor at the Universities of Tilburg, Birmingham, Pablo Olavide (Sevilla), Buenos Aires, Sherbrooke, Montreal, UCA (Managua), Universidad nacional (Bogotá), Universidad central (Ecuador), Puebla, UNAM (Mexico), Sapientiae (Rome), Sofia (Japon), Hanoi,

Honorary PhD of Notre Dame University (USA) and La Habana University (Cuba); honorary member of the Academy of Sciences of Vietnam and of Cuba.

Camilo Torres Price of the National University of Bogotá; UNESCO Price for

Development.

Secretary of the International Conference of Sociology of Religion (1954-1964), General secretary and Vice-president of the International Federation of Socio-religious Research Institutes: FERES (1968-1990); Director of the International Journal of Sociology of Religion, SOCIAL COMPASS (1960-1990); Founder of the Tricontinental Center (New Louvain) and of the Journal: ALTERNATIVES SUD; personal representative of the President of the General Assembly of the UNO in the Stiglitz Commission of Financial and Monetary Crisis (2008-2009).

Author of various books on Sociology of Regilion, of Rural Sociology and of Sociology of Globalization and of many articles. Books in English: Challenge to Change (New York, 1963), The Eleventh Hour – Explosion of a Church (New York, 1964), Religion and Ideology in Sri Lanka (Colombo, 1974 and New York 1985), Population and Food (New York, 1976), Sociology of Indian Catholicism (Cochin, 1975),Sociology of a Vietnamese Commune (London 1984), Agrofuel (London, 2010), A postcaptalist paradygme: Common Good of Mankind (Panama, 2012), Peasant Agriculture in Asia (Panama, 2013).