Jean-Claude Willame

{{short description|Emeritus Belgian professor}}

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| birth_name = Jean-Claude Willame

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1938|03|28}}[https://data.bnf.fr/fr/12060086/jean-claude_willame/ Profile] on the website of Bibliothèque nationale de France

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| nationality = Belgian

| spouse = Isabelle Durant

| notable_works = {{bulleted list | Patrimonialism and Political Change in the Congo (1972) | Patrice Lumumba: La crise congolaise revisitée (1990) | Aux sources de l'hécatombe rwandaise (1995)| Banyarwanda et Banyamulenge: Violences ethniques et gestion de l'identitaire au Kivu (1997)}}

| website = {{url|https://uclouvain.be/fr/repertoires/jean-claude.willame}}

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| discipline = Political science; African studies; History

| workplaces = {{ubl|University of California, Berkeley|Université catholique de Louvain|Université nationale du Zaïre|Centre d'études et de documentation africaines (CEDAF)}}

| alma_mater = University of California, Berkeley (PhD, 1971)

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| influences = Max Weber{{cite journal |last=Lemarchand |first=René |author-link=René Lemarchand |date=September 1973 |title=Reviewed Work(s): Patrimonialism and Political Change in the Congo by Jean-Claude Willame |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-political-science-review/article/patrimonialism-and-political-change-in-the-congo-by-jeanclaude-willame-stanford-stanford-university-press-1972-pp-xii-223-850/452A366269AEC5741AC198508468A77F |journal=The American Political Science Review |volume=67 |issue=3 |pages=1096–1098 |doi=10.2307/1958742 |jstor=1958742 |s2cid=148157976 |access-date=1 November 2020}}

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Jean-Claude Willame (born 28 March 1938) is a Belgian professor emeritus specialised in the political history of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He obtained his PhD in political science at the University of California, Berkeley in 1971. He was a professor at the Université nationale du Zaïre (National University of Zaire) from 1971 to 1975. In 1989, he was the deputy director of the Centre d'études et de documentation africaines (CEDAF), which developed into the contemporary history section at the Royal Museum for Central Africa in Tervuren. He retired as a professor at the UCLouvain Faculty of Economic, Social and Political Sciences and Communication at the Université Catholique de Louvain. As an independent expert within the Coimbra Group, Willame went to Congo-Kinshasa and Congo-Brazzaville to study opportunities of cooperation between the European Union and ACP countries.{{cite web |url=https://www.coimbra-group.eu/wp-content/uploads/ACPFinalReport_et_annexes15.07.03.pdf |title=8 ACP TPS 128- Travaux préparatoires à la mise en oeuvre du Cadre Commun de Coopération dans l'Enseignement Supérieur entre l'UE et les Pays ACP |last=Coimbra Group |date=15 July 2003 |website=Coimbra Group |access-date=1 November 2020 }}{{cite magazine |last=B. De W. |date=December 2003 |title=Réactiver la coopération universitaire avec les pays ACP |url=https://sites.uclouvain.be/alumni/ucl/Lv_144_1.pdf |magazine=Louvain |location=Louvain-la-Neuve |access-date=1 November 2020}}

He is married to Isabelle Durant, former Belgian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Mobility and Transport (1999–2003), who became Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in 2017.{{cite web |url=https://unctad.org/osg/deputy-secretary-general |title=Deputy Secretary-General |author= |date=3 July 2017 |website=UNCTAD |access-date=1 November 2017 |quote=Isabelle Durant, of Belgium, took up the position of Deputy Secretary-General on 3 July 2017.}}