Meet the Project Administrator

Guido Deboeck

Guido Deboeck is an amateur genealogist who has collected information about his family for the past twenty-five years. In addition to conventional genealogy he explored genetic genealogy over the last few years and has launching in 2005 the Flanders-Flemish DNA Project. This project was setup to collect and analyze DNA in one place on the web from anyone with Flemish roots.

The author started his career as a health economist in the World Health Organization, worked on rural development projects around the world and eventually became an advisor and manager of investment technology at the World Bank. He published several articles and books including Flemish DNA & Ancestry: History of three families over five centuries using conventional and genetic genealogy. He also published financial books including Visual Explorations in Finance: using self-organizing maps (1998) that was translated in Japanese and Russian; and Trading on the Edge: Neural, Genetic and Fuzzy Systems for Chaotic Financial Markets (1994).  Besides being an avid genealogist and home beerbrewer, he writes investment columns for Bella On-line, the Women’s Voice on the Internet

The Flanders-Flemish DNA Project administrator shown at the right at the 3rd International Conference on Genetic Genealogy, November 2006 (with Mr. & Mrs Jim Brown)