Profile
Jean-François Henrotte is the Managing Partner of Lexing – Belgium. He is specialized in Data protection and privacy, Intellectual and industrial property and Information technology law. He is also the president the CIB and the secretary general of the UIA . Jean-François is vice-president in charge of communications for Lexing® Network.
Professional experience
Collaborator ULg
President of Euregio Arbitration Center
Secretary-General of International Center for Collaborative Law
Editor-in-chief of the Revue du Droit des Technologies et de l´Information.
Editor-in-chief of the collection Lexing – Technologies avancées & Droit.
Member of the editorial committee of the legal journal J.L.M.B.
Editor-in-chief of Managing Lawyer.
Member of the editorial committee of the journal PIN CODE – Revue internationale de la Propriété intellectuelle et du droit du Numérique
Member of the Association pour la Protection des Données au Luxembourg.
Deputy legal assessor of the Conseil provincial de Liège de l´Ordre des Architectes
Member of the editorial committee of the journal Cahiers de droit immobilier (1999-2002).
Member of the comité des utilisateurs du système d´information Phenix (2006-2012).
Expertises
Diplomas, certificates and other qualifications
- Specialized in ICT law and intellectual property (Decisions of the Liège Bar Council of September 11th 2001 and September 27th 2011)
- Diploma in advanced bilingual studies (FR-EN) in competition law and intellectual property : European and international aspects (ULiège - IEJE)
- Diploma in specialized studies ICT - law and management (UNamur - CRIDS)
- Qualified in the training programme at the Bar to the Court of Cassation
- Master's degree in law - University of Liège (ULiège)
- Bachelor's degree in law - University of Namur (UNamur)
Activities within the Bar Association
- 2016 : CCBE Innovation Award
- 2014 : UIA Monique Raynaud-Contamine Award
- 2009 - 2011, 2014 - 2016 and 2019 - 2020 : Member of the Liège Bar Council
- 2013 - to date : Member (President 2016-2022) of the External relations Commission of the Bar association of Liège.
- 2020 - to date : Founding member of the Gender Commission of the Bar association of Liège.
- 2019 - 2021 : President of the Innovation Commission of the Bar association of Liège.
- 1999 - 2020 : President of the ICT & Communication Commission of the Bar association of Liège.
- 2014 - 2016 : Vice-president of the Ethics rules Commission of the Bar association of Liège.
- 2013 - 2016 : President of the Sponsoring Commission of the Bar organisation of Liège.
- 1999 - 2016 : Teacher in the Bar Professional Training Course for the bars in the jurisdictional district of Liege - theoretical courses on ICT.
- 2000 - to date : Member (President 2015-2016) of the ICT Commission and member of the communication and Ethics rules commissions of the Council of French and German Speaking Bar Organisation
- 2019 - to date : Member of The European incubator of the Brussels Bar
- 2012 - to date : Expert of the ICT Committee and, since 2021, Belgian delegate to the Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe (CCBE)
- 2022 - 2023 : Director of Strategy of the International Union of lawyers (U.I.A.).
- 2023 - to date : Secretary-General of the International Union of lawyers (U.I.A.)
- 2017 - 2022 : Director of Digital Strategy of the International Union of lawyers (U.I.A.).
- 2012 - to date : Vice-president (president 2016-2017) of the Privacy and rights of the digital person commission of the International Union of lawyers (U.I.A.).
- 2019 - to date : President (Administrator 2019-2023) of Conférence Internationale des Barreaux de tradition juridique commune (CIB)
- 2015 - to date : Member of International Bar Association