Rudy Van De Voorde was appointed Director General of the Belgian Prison Service in October 2018.

After obtaining a Master in Criminology, he started his career in the psychiatric care sector before making the switch to corrections. He started his penitentiary career as deputy director in the prison in Saint-Gilles (Brussels), launching several innovative initiatives in terms of staff organisation, staff management and regime development.

He then served as assessor in the Brussels Commission for Conditional Release, before heading the HR department of the Belgian Prison Service for six years. During that time, he also contributed to reforms of the federal public function within the Ministry of Justice.

After taking on assignments as director in the prison in Forest (Brussels) and the closed centre for minors in Everberg, he became head of the prison in Dendermonde.

He then was in charge of implementing new penitentiary security procedures and was head of the department responsible for the monitoring of the first generation of prisons under a public-private partnership framework.

Before being appointed Director General of the Belgian Prison Service, he worked as an advisor at the Minister’s Office, where the development of a draft law to improve the penitentiary environment and to introduce a minimum service in prison was among his core tasks.

Annie Devos has acquired a large experience throughout her career in the field of prison and probation. She has consecutively been prison governor (1988-1991), technical expert on prison policy for the Minister of Justice (1991-1995), seconded head of the department for policy and general affairs (1995-1997) and head of the department in charge of the individual inmates' file (1997-1999) at the Ministry of Justice. Afterwards, Annie has run the Belgian probation department – called "Houses of Justice" - since its creation in 1999. At the time, the services depended on the judicial organisation and were then transferred to the services of the Ministry of Justice until late 2014. In 2015, the services were divided between the 3 linguistic communities due to the 6th State reform. Annie has been appointed as Director-General for the Wallonia-Brussels Federation, which comprises the head office, the 13 local houses of Justice, the Centre for Electronic Monitoring and the Centre for Assistance to People concerned by any Radicalism or Extremism leading to Violence (CAPREV) and subsidises partner services in charge of offenders’ and victims’ support.

Annie Devos has been the vice-president of the Council for penological co-operation (PC-CP) of the Council of Europe since January 2022, and the President of the Confederation of European Probation since October 2022.