François Vincke was born at Bruges, Belgium, in 1949. He was admitted to the Brussels Bar after a distinguished career of more than two decades serving as company lawyer, General Counsel and Secretary General of a multinational energy and chemicals corporation.

He received his degrees from the Facultés universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix in Namur, cum laude, from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Louvain, magna cum laude and from the Europa-Instituut of the University of Amsterdam. He was assistant professor at the Universitaire Instelling Antwerpen in Antwerp.

He was for six years lay judge in the Commercial Court of Brussels.

François Vincke serves as Chairman of the Anti-corruption Commission of the International Chamber of Commerce in Paris since 1994. This commission has written the "Rules and Recommendations on Extortion and Bribery in International Business Transactions" of ICC, which were originally issued in 1977, rewritten in 1996, revised in 1999 and adapted in 2005.

He is the co-editor and co-author of the following books "Fighting Corruption, a Corporate Practices Manual", ICC Publishing, Paris, 2003 and "L’entreprise face à la mondialisation, opportunités et risques , strategies juridiques", Brussels and Paris, 2006. He is co-author of the books "Legal tracks, I, Essays on contemporary corporate and finance law", Brussels, 2003 and "Legal tracks, II, Essays on international and domestic contracts and torts", Brussels, 2005.

François Vincke authored numerous articles on corporate governance, corporate practices (mainly addressing self regulation and anti-corruption) and is often asked to speak about these subjects in various fora.