Denis Stokkink is a trained economist with a comparatively broad and rich professional experience. His position as consultant for the Belgian Secretary of Labor allowed him to actively participate in the Belgian presidency of the European Union in 2001. Since 2003 he is the president of the European Think Tank “Pour la Solidarité”, providing services to policy-makers as well as social and economic decision-makers within the European Union in order to promote solidarity in all its aspects. He also is administrator of numerous social economy organisations in Europe and provides essential knowledge on socio-economic european politics to several Belgian and French training organisms.