Valerie De Ruyck graduated in July 2001 with great distinction at the Faculty of Law at the University of Ghent. She continued her education at the Universities of Hamburg, Ghent and Aix-Marseille where she followed a European Master in law and economics. In 2002 she started working as a lawyer at the bar in Brussels in the law firm Stibbe within the Department Commercial Litigation and Arbitration.
Mid 2005 she moved to the bar in Ghent where she founded her own law firm in her home town Deinze.
Since 2004 she is working as a practitioner teaching assistant at the University of Ghent within the domain of Private International Law.
