Monique Mund-Dopchie

Monique Mund-Dopchie (born in Ronse, Belgium, on 21 August 1943) is a Belgian classicist. She is the current president of the Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium.

In 1970 Mund-Dopchie obtained a doctorate in Classical Philology. She went on to work as a professor of Ancient Greek Literature and of the History of Humanism in the Philosophy Department of the Université Catholique de Louvain. In 2008 she became professor emeritus. After her retirement a Festschrift was presented to her jointly with Gilbert Tournoy, relating to her work on Neo-Latin Renaissance literature: ''Syntagmatia: Essays on Neo-Latin Literature in Honour of Monique Mund-Dopchie and Gilbert Tournoy'', edited by Dirk Sacré and Jan Papy (Leuven University Press, 2009)

In 2000 she was elected a corresponding member of the Royal Academy of Belgium, and in 2004 a full member. Since January 2017 she has been president of the Academy. Provided by Wikipedia