# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gilles-de-kerchove
# Generated: 2026-08-15T07:23:39.025Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gilles-de-kerchove"
name: "Gilles de Kerchove"
slug: "gilles-de-kerchove"
description: "Gilles de Kerchove d'Ousselghem is a Belgian senior European Union official. He was director in the general directorate of Justice and Home Affairs (JHA) in the General Secretariat of the Council of the European Union from 1995 to 2007; he has since been appointed as EU Counter-terrorism Coordinator, succeeding Gijs de Vries."
tagline: "Belgian jurist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Gilles_de_Kerchove.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1956-10-03"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           38.43
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.539021333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilles_de_Kerchove"
    title: "Gilles de Kerchove"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%84_%D8%AF%D9%89_%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%B4%D9%88%D9%81"
    title: "جيل دى كيرشوف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilles_de_Kerchove"
    title: "Gilles de Kerchove"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilles_de_Kerchove"
    title: "Gilles de Kerchove"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilles_de_Kerchove"
    title: "Gilles de Kerchove"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilles_de_Kerchove"
    title: "Gilles de Kerchove"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilles_de_Kerchove"
    title: "Gilles de Kerchove"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q472885"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump