On 8 June 2009 he hold the lecture A New Age of Reason on the life and actual influence of Thomas Paine who died 200 years ago.
Dirk Bogarde | Guy Verhofstadt | Dirk Kempthorne | Dirk Haire | Dirk Benedict | Dirk Nowitzki | Dirk | Dirk Pitt | Dirk Coster | Dirk van den Broek | Dirk Reyn | Dirk W. Mosig | Dirk West | Dirk Stikker | Dirk Serries | Dirk Obbink | Dirk Nannes | Dirk Mudge | Dirk Maggs | Dirk Gently (TV series) | Dirk Gently | Dirk Edward Ziff | Dirk Coetzee | Dirk Bremser | ''Into thir dirk and drublie dayis, Quhone sabill all the hevin arrayis''. The Hunters in the Snow | Dirk Willems | Dirk Wears White Sox | Dirk VI, Count of Holland | Dirk VI | Dirk Verhofstadt |
Other well-known members of the board are Mathias De Clercq, a liberal Member of the Belgian Chamber of Representatives and Ghent alderman, and Dirk Verhofstadt, the brother of the liberal Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt.