Belgium

Jennifer Vanderputten started her career in 2003 as a commercial lawyer at the Brussels Bar in a medium-sized law firm focused on international business namely in the PRC. 
She joined the Brussels prosecution office in 2009, where she worked in the economical and financial crime section before joining the organised crime section and becoming spokesperson. 
She joined the Prosecutor General’s Office in 2016, where she handled a diversity of cases in the Court of Appeal, from financial crimes to large scale drug and human trafficking cases. 
On academic level, she has been linked to the Catholic University of Leuven and to the Institut Charles Péguy. As a Belgian magistrate, Jennifer was accredited to accompany Belgian military forces on military operations abroad. Driven by a lifelong interest in geopolitics and a genuine concern for the security of our democratic institutions, she is involved, as an alumna, in the activities of the Royal Higher Institute for Defence.

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