Bernard Vanheule

Bernard VANHEULE (1970) started his career in 1995 as trainee in the EU Council and later at the European Parliament (Grant ”Robert Schuman”). He joined the shipmanagement company Trimar (Luxembourg) as qualified lawyer before joining in 2002 the Cabinet of Belgian Minister for the Environment as marine attaché. In 2004 he was appointed Senior Legal Officer of the Royal Belgian Shipowners’Association.

As from 2019 he joined the European cruise leader Costa Group where he holds the position of EU Affairs Director.

He is also Vice Chair of the Cruise Line Association (CLIA)’s European Governance Affairs Committee.

He is an insightful “observer” of the EU Fit for 55 Package legislative negotiation.

He graduated in Law at the Université Catholique de Louvain (Belgium) in 1994 and in Sea-Use Law with “Summa Cum Laude” from the Université de Bretagne Occidentale (France) in 1996. He has been Guest Lecturer at the UN International Maritime Law Institute for numerous years.