Stephan Van den Broucke is Professor at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences and the Psychological Sciences Research Institute of the Université Catholique de Louvain. Stephan participated as a principal investigator in several large scale international projects, including the European Health Literacy Survey (HLS-EU), Reviewing Public Health Capacities in Europe, Action-For-Health, and IC-Health, and coordinated the EU Diabetes Literacy project. He is an Executive Board Member of the International Union for Health Promotion and Education (UHPE) and is an associate editor of Health Promotion International and editorial board member of Archives of Public Health and Journal of Public Health Research. Stephan regularly serves as an adviser for the European Commission and the World Health Organization. Research and teaching interests include health psychology, preventive health behavior change, health promotion planning and evaluation, self-management education for chronic disease, health literacy, and public health capacity building