Dirk Sacré is a professor of Latin at KU Leuven. He was general editor of "Supplementa Humanistica Lovaniensia", and is co-editor of "Officina Neolatina" and "Pluteus Neolatinus". He is also on several editorial boards including of "Vox Latina". He is an advisor to the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Neo-Latin Studies and was Vice-President of the Academia Latinitati Fovendae, an institute that promotes the use of Latin. He also authored the second part of the standard volume on Neo-Latin, the "Companion to Neo-Latin studies", published in 1998.
In 2021, Sacré received a "Festschrift" "Dulces ante omnia Musae" in honour of his work in the field of Neo-Latin studies, especially regarding poetry.
Sacré also writes in Latin.