Sub-Fonds - Hostie, Jan

Hostie, Jan-Frans, born on 29 January 1884 in Ghent, Belgium.

Career:

• Barrister at Brussels and Anvers Courts of Justice;
• Legal adviser at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Belgium;
• Director at the Marine Administration;
• Secretary-General of the Central Commission for the Rhine navigation;
• Director of the Communications Section, Ministry for Foreign Affairs;
• Delegate at the Peace Conference;
• Delegate at the Port Commission;
• Member of the Communication Section of the Economic Supreme Council;
• Deputy delegate at the Belgian-Dutch 1920 negotiations;
• Deputy delegate at the Danube Conference;
• Delegate for the Anglo-Belgian negotiations about free zones in the Tanganyika Territory;
• Member of the Commission for the freedom of communications and transit;
• Member of the Communication and transit provisionary Committee of the League of Nations, of which he was the representative at the Barcelona Conference;
• Since 1924 Member of the permanent Judicial Committee of the League of Nations Communication and Transit Organization;
• He presided over the Enquiry Commission about the Oder river;
• He participated in the Expert Committee on the dispute about the Polish postal service at Danzig;
• Member of the Special Committee on the Polish Direction of the railways in Danzig;
• He was Belgium Commissioner at the Rhine and Elbe River Commissions;
• From 1921 to 1937, he was Secretary general of the Rhine navigation Central Commission;
• In 1929 and 1932, he taught at the International Law Academy;
• He collaborated to the Digest of International Law and the Revue de droit international et de législation comparée;
• Member of the American Society of International Law.