Antwerp, Flemish Region, Belgium
Experienced publishing professional holding several board and executive positions in the publishing business. • Publishing Director, Maklu & Garant: publishing legal and academic content for academics, legal professionals and practitioners. • Vice-president, GEWU (Group Educational and Scientific Publishers). • President, Expert Group for Scientific and Professional Publications. • Board Director, Boek.be: the umbrella organisation for the Flemish publishing and bookselling sector. • Author of legal publications, and expert by experience in public and administrative permitting law (including constitutional review). Over the years, I have developed practical insight into complex public-law permitting processes, administrative appeals and cassation proceedings before the Belgian Council of State, adding a complementary perspective to my publishing activities in the legal domain.
Publishing legal and informative content for professionals, among which scientists, companies, lawyers and liberal professions.
Board Director of Boek.be, the competence centre of the associations of publishers, distributors and booksellers of Flanders. Its main goals are to promote the sale and knowledge of books in Flanders and to professionalise the literary marketplace.
Co-Chairman of the Board of GEWU (Groep Educatieve, Wetenschappelijke en Professionele Uitgeverijen / Group Educational, Scientific and Professional Publishers)
Maintaining corporate governance practices; fundraising; accompanying transition of 103-year-old 'Gazette van Detroit' to digital format; networking with partners worldwide (US, Canada, Europe); creating and running Centenary events; guiding newspaper content.
Publishing (e-)books and other media for professionals: law, tax, business, health care and other professional information.