Piet DesmetVice Rector of KU Leuven & KU Leuven Campus Kulak Kortrijk and Coordinator at Itec, IMEC Research Group at KU Leuven

Piet Desmet is full professor of French linguistics and language teaching methodology at the Linguistics Department of the K.U.Leuven. He teaches French linguistics at the Kortrijk Campus of the K.U.Leuven (K.U.Leuven Kulak) and French language teaching methodology and applied linguistics at the K.U.Leuven.

He serves as a member of the Leuven research unit French, Italian and Comparative Linguistics. He also coordinates the Kortrijk research team ITEC (Interdisciplinary Research on Technology, Education & Communication) which focusses on educational technology across disciplines. He is the National Representative of EUROCALL for Belgium.

For the moment he is president of the Arts Faculty and member of the managerial committee of K.U.Leuven Kulak. He is vice-president of Alliance française West Flanders and a board member of the Business Language and Communication Centre (BLCC) and of the regional broadcasting company Focus-WTV.