Think tank
What started as an idea to create additional opportunities for people who want to leverage their experience for initiatives with social impact, has today grown into a group of about thirty people who meet regularly to address the challenges of an increasingly aging population that remains active for longer and longer. Together, the members of the think tank form an exceptional group of very diverse but complementary profiles, with experience in a wide range of industries and functional domains, in Belgium and beyond.
Members
Jean-Luc Deleersnyder
Jean-Luc Deleersnyder holds a degree in Civil Engineering from Ghent University and a PhD in applied sciences from the same university. After 6 years at the management consulting firm McKinsey & Co...
Joost Maes
Joost Maes holds a law degree from the KU Leuven and a Master’s of Law from the University of Virginia in the United States. After 6 years at the law firm De Bandt van Hecke & Lagae...
Nancy Vermeulen
Nancy Vermeulen obtained a master's degree in theoretical physics and astronomy from the University of Antwerp and completed airline pilot training at the Sabena Flight Academy. She started her career as a pilot...
Luc Rademakers
Luc Rademakers obtained a PhD in Philosophy of Leisure (Brussels). He started his career as a journalist, was editor-in-chief of various media for 16 years and worked in more than 30 countries worldwide. He has 25 years of experience in...
Gert De Winter
Gert De Winter holds a Master's degree in Applied Economics from the University of Antwerp. He worked at Accenture from 1988 to 2004, where he became a partner in 2000. Gert participated in and led many business and IT transformation...
Katrien Berghs
Katrien Berghs holds a law degree from KU Leuven. She then obtained a master's degree in Social Law at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Katrien started her career in 1999 as an assistant at the Institute of Employment Law...
Luk Kelles
Luk Kelles holds a Master’s degree in Commercial Engineering from the KU Leuven and a Masters of Science in Applied Economics from the same university (including an Erasmus stay at the Ludwig Maximilians Universitaet in Munich). After an internship...
Hadewig De Corte
Hadewig De Corte holds a Master's degree in Economics from Ghent University and a Diplôme d'Etudes Supérieures Spécalisées in Finance from Poitiers. She is passionate about developing ambitious, sustainable strategies that...
Luc Delagaye
Luc Delagaye holds a degree in Civil Engineering from Ghent University. In addition he completed management programs from Ashridge (UK), CEDEP (Fontainebleau) and IMD (Lausanne). He started his professional career at...
Eddy Claesen
Eddy Claesen started his career as a tax consultant in 1984, with a degree in Accountancy and Taxation. Gradually, Eddy continued his education, with a diploma in 'succession in family businesses' obtained at the Business School Tilburg and...
Bertrand Waucquez
Bertrand Waucquez graduated from the University of Louvain-la-Neuve as a civil engineer in mechanical engineering. Subsequently he completed his military service in Zeebrugge after which he left for Japan and obtained a Master’s degree of Engineering...
Karen Dumery
Karen Dumery holds a degree in Business Administration from Boston University. Karen started her professional career at EY in Brussels as an external auditor. After several years, she joined American Standard as an internal auditor ...
Koen Kas
Koen Kas is a biomedical scientist trained at the universities of Antwerp, Leuven, Utrecht, Karolinska in Stockholm and Harvard in Boston. He began his career by elucidating the molecular basis of two types of cancer...
Marc De Clercq
Marc De Clercq's professional career was mainly at Ghent University, where he started in 1973 as an assistant at the Faculty of Economics and Business and progressed to full professor (1998) of general economics and environmental economics. Since 1998 he has held...
Olivier Rens
Olivier Rens holds a degree in Civil Engineering from Ghent University and a postgraduate degree in Economics for non-economists from the Antwerp Management School...
Sven Van de Wynkele
After obtaining a Master’s degree in Military and Naval Sciences at the Royal Military Academy, Sven served as a naval officer for 10 years, of which 7 years on board. In 2001, Sven moved...
Dany Loret
Dany holds a degree in Civil Engineering, specialising in electronics from the University of Ghent. He also holds a PhD on semiconductor electronics at the same university. Later in his career, he completed...
Mimi Lamote
Mimi Lamote holds a Master's degree in Applied Economics from the UFSIA (University of Antwerp). In the years that followed, she did a Business Case Study Program at Harvard, a leadership program at Insead, a Master in Retail Management...
Thierry Geerts
Thierry Geerts graduated from the VUB as a Solvay Business Engineer. He started his career as an auditor at PWC. After that, he was soon in charge of an industrial laundry company, Euroblan (now Rentokil). With the rise of the internet...
Geert Van Hootegem
Professor Dr. Geert Van Hootegem was once the youngest nature guide ever. He graduated as an assistant sommelier with Peter Colemont. He is a labour and organisational sociologist and obtained his PhD in 1999 with his dissertation...
Sabine Everaet
Sabine Everaet is a commercial engineer from the KU Leuven and started her career as a consultant at KPMG and PwC. In 1995 she started working as a Business Analyst at The Coca-Cola Company. In 2009 she became CIO for Europe, and seven years later she...
Tinne Aerts
Tinne Aerts is a seasoned HR professional, highly specialised in Talent Acquisition, Recruitment & Selection, and Talent Management. With strong expertise in recruitment and optimising recruitment processes...
Tomas Wallaert
Tomas Wallaert holds a Master's degree in Organizational Psychology from the KU Leuven. He also completed an MBA at the same university and participated in the Advanced Management Program at Vlerick Business School...
Hilde Peerlings
Hilde Peerlings holds a degree in commercial sciences from the University of Ghent, a study that she later supplemented with an MBA from the Vlerick Business School and a Master's degree in HRM...
Frederic Hendrickx
Frederic Hendrickx obtained his JD in law at the KU Leuven and studied Environmental Science at the University of Antwerp as well as Environmental and Energy law at Copenhagen University...