Biography
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Currently:
Special Advisor to the CEO of the Federation of Enterprises in Belgium
Honorary Secretary General and Member of the Board of the Federation of Enterprises in Belgium
President of the Brussels School of Competition
Vice-President of CEPANI, the Belgian Centre for Mediation and Arbitration
Professor UCLouvain (Financial Law and Corporate Governance)
President of CRIDES UCLouvain
Member of the High Council of Justice
Previously
September 2003- August 2021
Secretary General and Board Member of the Federation of Enterpreises in Belgium
January 2000 - August 2003
Deputy director of the Banking and Finance Commission, now Financial Services and Markets Authority, in charge of the Financial Information Service within the Financial Information and Financial Markets Control Department. Many contacts at European level regarding the regulation of the financial sector. 16 March 1989
31 December 1999:
• Legal expert in the General and Legal Research Service at the Banking and Finance Commission. Intensive practice of Banking and Financial Law and Company Law, both as an in-house consultant and as an expert. September 1985 - 15 March 1989:
• Attorney at Law with the legal firm of Simont & Simont (which subsequently changed its name to Stibbe), currently located at the Central Plaza, Rue Loxum 25, 1000 Brussels, Belgium.
TEACHING POSTS
Professor at the Faculty of Law of the Université catholique de Louvain (Financial Markets Regulations - Coordinator of the Bank and Finance programme)
Professor at the Louvain School of Management (European Corporate Governance – Minor in entrepreneurship)
Assistant Professor at University of Luxembourg
MEMBERSHIPS
President of the Brussels School of Competition
Vice President of Cepani
Member of ICC Belgium
President of the CRIDES Jean Renauld (UCL)
Member of the Editorial Board of the RPS-TRV
Member and Past President of businesseurope's Legal Affairs Committee
Member of the Advisory Board and of the Academic Council of Guberna
Member of the Board of Le Prieuré Sainte-Marie * Member of the Board of Women on Board
Speaker at numerous conferences and seminars on banking, financial, commercial, tax and company law
VALUES
Honest, enthusiast, humanist, professional, critic, open-minded, interested in society and its economic, social and legal framework *