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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Currently:
• Secretary General and Member of the Board of the Federation of Enterprises in Belgium, in charge of FEB's General Secretariat (corporate housekeeping, finance, human resources, facilities, IT) and General Counsel in charge of the Legal Department
• President of the Brussels School of Competition
• Vice-President of CEPANI, the Belgian Centre for Mediation and Arbitration
• Member of the board of UWE and BECI
• Member of the board and secretary of the Belgian Corporate Governance Committee
• Member of the board of the Belgian association of listed companies
• Professor UCLouvain (Financial Law and Corporate Governance) Previously 1 January 2000 - 24 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 EDUCATION
• Degree in Law (UCL, 1984, high distinction) • Diploma from the Ecole Supérieure des Sciences Fiscales (ICHEC, 1988, high distinction)
MEMBERSHIPS
• Member and Secretary of the Belgian Corporate Governance Committee
• President of the Brussels School of Competition
• Member of the CRIDES Jean Renauld (UCL)
* Member of the Editorial Board of the RPS-TRV * Member of the Board of Union Wallone des Entreprises * Member of the Board of BECI, Brussels Chamber of Commerce * Member of the Consumers' Council * 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 *
Family: married, 3 children
* Literature, arts, travel, photography