Willem Ombelet graduated as a medical doctor from the University of Leuven in 1979. He started his career researching infertility and IVF in 1984 in Pretoria, South Africa. In 1998, he obtained his PhD degree at the University of Leuven.
From 2001 until 2004 he was the President of the Flemish Society of Obstetrics and Gynaecology.
He has contributed to 190 international peer-reviewed articles and he was (co-) editor of 17 books.
He was the founder of the Genk Institute for Fertility Technology, the Walking Egg non-profit organization and the international scientific journal “Facts, Views & Vision in ObGyn”.
He was the coordinator of the ESHRE Special Interest Groups “Andrology” and Global and Sociocultural aspects of infertility” and the chair of the ESHRE Special Interest Groups until 2023.
He is an associate editor of the “Journal of Clinical Medicine” and “Reproduction & Fertility”.
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