Place of main employment (name of hospital, university, company, agency or any other institute or organisation):
Ghent University Hospital Ghent Fertility and Stem cell Team
Curriculum vitae Petra De Sutter
Born 10 June 1963, Oudenaarde (Belgium)
Gender: female
Married, one son, Tom, 21 years old
Medical / academic CV:
-Medical doctor, Gent University 1987
-Obstetrician-gynecologist, Gent University 1994
-PhD’s in biomedical sciences, 1991 and 1994
-Professor Reproductive medicine, University Gent, since 2000
-Head Dept Reproductive Medicine, University Hospital Gent, since 2006
-Member of the ethics committee of University Hospital Gent, 2007-2014
-Member of College of the Belgian High Health Council, 2009-2014
-Member of the French Agence de la Biomédecine, 2012-2014
-Member of the Belgian Royal Academy of Medicine, since 2009
-Member executive committee European Society for Human Reproduction and Embryology, since 2013
-Member of the board of governors of Gent University, since 2014
-Member of the board of governors of Gent University Hospital, since 2014
Academic interests: bio-ethics of reproduction, womens’ health, human fertility and embryology, stem cell biology
Publications: more than 400 academic papers, several books and book chapters
Political CV:
-Appointed Senator for the Flemish Green party (Groen), Belgian Senate, since 2014:
-committee on institutional affairs (rapporteur for three reports so far)
-committee on European affairs
-Member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), since 2014:
-committee on migration, refugees and displaced persons (one report)
-committee on social affairs, health and sustainable development (two reports)
-Member of the Belgian APPG on population and development, since 2014
-Member of the board of the European Parliamentary Forum (EPF) on Population and Development, since 2015
-Chair of the Socialist Women's Working Group at the PACE, since 2015
-Member of the bureau of the Socialist Group at PACE, since 2015
-Vice-chair of the Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons, PACE, since 2016
Political interests: human rights (esp. women, sexual minorities, refugees), European affairs, sexual and reproductive health and rights, LGBTQI rights, health and environment