Luc Mees, a Belgian, was for over 40 years a member of the Scheut Missionaries  (CICM). After his ordination he studied theology at the Facultés Catholiques de Lyon (France) and missiology at the Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen (The Netherlands). He served for 22 years in Guatemala as a missionary among the Q’eqchi-Maya Indians, CICM Provincial Superior, formator, and professor of phenomenology of religion at the Universidad Rafael Landivar and the Instituto Centroamericano de Ciencias Religiosas (La Salle) in Guatemala City. From 1993 to 1999 he was Vicar General of CICM in Rome. In 2002 he became a member of the newly founded Missionaries of Jesus (MJ) in the Philippines. He has been professor of missiology and comparative religion at Maryhill School of Theology and lectures also at the Institute of Formation and Religious Studies in Quezon City. He joined the EAPI faculty in 2003.