Career
He is intendant of Brussels Metropolitan. He helped to launch the Citizen’s Forum of Brussels. Within Aula Magna he organized the first Brussels Citizens University (2010).
Four Brussels Summer Universities have followed since then on a yearly basis.
As businessman, he has held top management positions in Canal+ Belgium (now BeTV (Belgium)), Belgacom and the SNCB - the Belgian railway company, among others, and several positions as director in British Telecom Belgium, Cork Institute of Technology Blaton and Carmeuse. A strategic consultant, he helps medium and large organizations foresee the impact of technological, financial, social, demographic, environmental, urban and political change on their future.
He founded a publishing company, Prosopon Editions. He has served as president of a number of clubs and associations amongst which the Alumni association of the Collège Saint-Michel (Bruxelles).
He is the Executive Officer of the European Quarter Fund.
He is also involved as president in the European Quarter Area Management Association (EQuAMA). In the sport field, he is the Secretary General of the European Sports Academy (European Space Agency). He is further a director of the Brussels Studies Institute.
He was educated at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (Université libre de Bruxelles (Free University of Brussels)), where he obtained the degrees of Business Engineer (Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management) and Law and Philosophy (1984).
He is currently finalizing a Master in History at the same university. He is fluent in Dutch, English, French and German.
He lives in Ixelles (Brussels Region).