Emmanuel Klimis holds a doctorate in political and social sciences from Université Saint-Louis - Brussels, as well as a postgraduate diploma in international public law and a degree in political science (with a focus on international relations) from ULB. He works on the link between security and development, on governance, and on justice and human rights in the context of North-South relations.
For almost twenty years he has been conducting research into Belgian cooperation policies with fragile and post-conflict states, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, as a scientific researcher but also in support of several international (United Nations, European Union) and national (Belgian federal government, Wallonia-Brussels Federation) bodies.
He has been a director of the NGO RCN Justice et Démocratie, and an evaluator of development projects for the Belgian Federal Service for Foreign Affairs. He teaches political science, international relations and development studies at UCLouvain (Brussels Saint-Louis and Brussels Woluwé sites) and at the Haute-Ecole Bruxelles-Brabant. He has also taught at the Institut d'études politiques de Lille, ULB, Université de Liège and the Ecole nationale d'administration de la RD Congo.
Emmanuel Klimis is in charge of several academic development cooperation projects in Burkina Faso and Burundi. He represents UCLouvain at the Commission for Development Cooperation of ARES and represents ARES on the Wallonia-Brussels Council for International Cooperation.