Rik Torfs

Quick Facts

Full Name	Rik Torfs
Occupation	Columnist
Date Of Birth	Oct 16, 1956(1956-10-16)
Age	68
Birthplace	Turnhout
Country	Belgium
Birth City	Flemish Region
Horoscope	Libra

Rik Torfs Biography

Rik Torfs is one of the most popular and richest Columnist who was born on October 16, 1956 in Turnhout, Flemish Region, Belgium. Henri Maria Dymphna Andre Laurent “Rik” Torfs, a Belgian canon lawyer scholar and media personality was born 16 October 1956. He was a former senator for the Christian Democratic and Flemish parties in the Belgian Federal parliament and a former rector of the Catholic University of Leuven.

He gave lectures on Rubens and modern art at the St. Paul Church, Antwerp in 2004. He was also the guest speaker at the 2008 Willem-Elschot Society annual meeting. He was also the Bomans Society’s guest speaker in 2008. In 2009, he was the host of the Belgian Sports Personality of the year.

In October 2009 Torfs told the press that he wanted to bring together people from all walks of life into a new political forum for innovation. He started an informal Think Tank which, if successful could evolve into a new party for the elections of 2011. However, circumstances in Belgian politics forced new elections scheduled for June 2010.

In May 2010, Torfs was offered the second position on the senate list of the Christian Democratic and Flemish party (CD&V), next to Marianne Thyssen and took it. The press has called Torfs one of the so-called “white rabbits [nl] ” of Belgian politics 2010. During an interview for De Zevende Dag, Torfs appeared wearing a tie with a white rabbit print on it, which prompted the nickname. As a member of CD&V he aspired to reconceptualize the political ideology of the party together with Inge Vervotte and others. According to Torfs, these attempts failed to broaden the internal debate within the party and didn’t give rise to change within the party because of the highly rigid and hierarchical nature of the party system and its decision-making. From this perspective he started to think about leaving politics in the end of 2012. In March 2013 he quit politics and announced his candidacy to become Rector of KU Leuven.

Torfs has made many comments on issues relating to the Catholic Church. He appealed to bishops in 1994 to exercise their ius-remonstrandi against the papal letter ordinatio Sacerdotalis, which sought to end the debate about allowing women to priesthood. From 2002 to 2003, he was a member of the Canvas panel. He started a column in De Standaard titled The Slippery Slope. (Het Hellend Vlak).

Rik Torfs Net Worth

Rik Torfs is one of the richest Columnist from Belgium. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Rik Torfs 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He was a Sint-Gummaruscollege student (Lier), and he studied law at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven as well as the University of Strasbourg. He was a specialist in canon or ecclesiastical law. In 1987, he received his JCD with a dissertation about the canonical notion of marriage.

Torfs was appointed assistant professor at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven’s Faculty of Canon Law in 1988. In 1996, he was made a full-time professor. He was Dean of the Faculty from 1994 to 2003, 2009 to 2013, and again in 2013. He is also a visiting professor at the University of Stellenbosch and University of Paris, University of Nijmegen and University of Strasbourg. Torfs is also a member on the International Center for Law and Religion Studies academic advisory board at Brigham Young University and the International Religious Liberty Association board of experts. He was a past president and board member for the European Consortium for Church and State Research and he is also the founder and board member for the Working Group Nederlandstalige Canonisten (Dutch speaking Canonists). He became a member of the Commission for Intercultural dialogue in 2005, the Commissie ter invulling van de cursus maatschappelijke orientatie in 2006, and Les Assises de l’Interculturalite in 2009. He is an advisor to the Romanian government regarding protection of religious minorities.

He later became a weekly columnist for Le Soir from 2008 to 2009. Torfs was brought in several times as a guest on De Laatste Show (The Last Show) a talk show on Eén a public Dutch TV station in Belgium, owned by the VRT. Torfs soon became a frequent guest on some of Flanders’ media’s prime-time shows, including De Zevende Dag, Terzake, Zinzen, De Pappenheimers, Nachtwacht, Recht van Antwoord. In 2009 Torfs was a co-presenter with Siegfried Bracke in a television program devoted to covering Belgian elections called De Stemming. Between 2007 and 2009, he had his own ‘conversation’ program at Canvas called Nooitgedacht (Never Thought), a series of 30 in-depth conversations with notable guests, including Wilfried Martens, Guy Verhofstadt, Louis Michel, Philippe Claudel, Kamagurka and Liesbeth List. Torfs was a one-man jury panel on De Slimste Mens ter Wereld (The Smartest Person on Earth), a Flemish TV program produced by Woestijnvis on Eén. Presented by movie director Erik Van Looy, it features journalists, politicians and performers who are subjected to a daunting quiz. Torfs remarked on the questions, answers, contestants, or the presenter. Vlaamse Televisie Academie awarded it the Vlaamse Televisie Ster voor Beste Entertainmentprogramma. Torfs retired from the program in 2010.

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Rik Ranked on the list of most popular Columnist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Belgium. Rik Torfs celebrates birthday on October 16 of every year.