Karel Van Hulle lectures as emeritus professor at the Economics and Business Faculty of the KU Leuven. He is emeritus professor of the Goethe University in Frankfurt and fellow of the ICIR. He is a member of the Board of the Bermuda Monetary Authority and Chairman of the Conflicts of Interest Oversight Committee of the European Money Markets Institute.
He served as head of insurance and pensions at the EC until March 2013 and was member of the Public Interest Oversight Board from March 2016 until April 2021.
He joined the EC in 1984 after serving eight years with the Belgian Banking Commission. Before becoming head of insurance and pensions in 2004, he was head of accounting, auditing and company law.
Van Hulle is a lawyer by training. He studied law at the KU Leuven and at the Marquette University Law School in Milwaukee.
In 2013, Van Hulle was nominated distinguished fellow of the IAIS and in 2014 he was elected honorary fellow of the UK Institute and Faculty of Actuaries. In 2019, he summarised his experience with the development of Solvency II in a book “Solvency Requirements for EU Insurers. Solvency II is good for you”, Intersentia, Cambridge, Antwerp, Chicago, ISBN 978-1-78068-177-1, 727 p.
