Dominique Weerts holds a degree in journalism. He began his career as Communication Manager for a private company specializing in automatic identification. He then opted for the non-profit sector in restructuring the sector of youth organizations in Haiti, Rwanda and Burundi. Back in Europe, he was appointed advisor to the Minister of International Relations of the French-speaking Belgian Governments (Walloon Region and Brussels-Wallonia Federation), where he finalized several international cooperation agreements between the two regional governments and their partners in many Caribbean, Western and Central African countries. He then joined the National Centre for Development Cooperation (CNCD), the coordination of French-speaking Belgian international solidarity organizations as Secretary-General. It was during this period that he founded the African and Caribbean Policy Support Committee (CAPAC) with some Professors from the University of Liège, where he led numerous missions in support to decentralization in Central Africa. In the meantime, he joined the Cabinet of the Presidency of a Belgian French-speaking political party, in charge of International Relations, Asylum and Migration. He was then appointed as Political Secretary at the Senate of Kingdom of Belgium. It was at this time that he participated in the creation of ECES. He later joined Kinshasa as advisor to the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) of the Democratic Republic of Congo and as an expert in the High School of Electoral Training in Central Africa (EFEAC). Subsequently, he became the representative of ECES in the Republic of Guinea in the framework of the Credibility and Transparency Elections Support Program (PACTE-Guinea). He supported several projects implemented by ECES, notably in the Comoros, and most recently the European Union Support to Democratic Governance in Nigeria (EUSDGN-Component 1), a program dedicated to the technical assistance for the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) of Nigeria and the Preventing Electoral Violence and Education for Inclusion (PEV-EDI) in Nigeria, a program funded by the German Foreign Office. He was also in charge of Operations at the ECES headquarters in Brussels for nearly two years.
He, then, assumed responsibility for Administration and Finance in Ethiopia and was after that deployed to Mali, as part of the “Pro-Observation Mali” Project, as Financial and Administrative Manager, until mid-2023. As LEAD accrediting facilitator, he provided several training courses in Chad in 2024. He is currently coordinator of the Civil Society and Media Support Project for inclusive and transparent elections in Gabon (PACMG), since November 2024.
