Jan De Groof is founder and chairman of both the European Association for Education Law and Policy and of the Interuniversity Centre for Education Law. He is also a cofounder of the Russian and the South African Associations for Education Law and Policy. One of the leading education law specialists worldwide, he helped organize and chaired the First World Conference on the Right to Education, in Amsterdam, The Hague, 2004. De Groof is professor at the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium, and the University of Tilburg, Netherlands.