Faculty

Fabienne Ilzkovitz

Fabienne Ilzkovitz is head of the unit “Product markets, competitiveness, competition and innovation policies” in the Directorate General for Economic and Financial Affairs of the European Commission.
She is also associate pro- fessor int the Université Libre de Bruxelles and in a Brussels Business School (ICHEC). Before joining the European Commission in 1985, she has worked as research assistant in the Université Libre de Bruxelles (1976-1983) and as attaché in the research department of the National Bank of Belgium (1983- 1985). She has published several papers and contributed to several books dealing with European integration, international aspects of EMU, competition policy and industrial economics.

Rosette S’Jegers

Rosette S’Jegers is vice-rector education at the Vrije Universiteit Brus- sels and President of the research group “Business economics and stra- tegic policy” (BEDR). As professor she teaches “Economy” and “Man- agement Techniques” to the Faculty of Economic, Social and Political Sciences, with special interest for the service sector. She is (co)-author of numerous scientific publications with expertise within a wide re- search spectrum. She leads different projects concerning the modified competition conditions in among other things the banks, transports and telecommunication sector.
Since 1990 she has been member of the Commission for Preventive Company Policy, set up by the Flem- ish Community. Moreover professor S’Jegers also coordinates the development of management training programmes for business executives from the third world.

Marc Goldchstein

Marc Goldchstein developed a passion for photography at the tender age of 11, but nevertheless studied business engineering at the VUB, where he worked after his studies as a research assistant at the “Centrum voor Bedrijfseconomie”. He then developed a fifteen-year career as management, sales and marketing professional in a number of high tech entrepreneurial ventures. During this period he founded SoftCore, a company that devel- oped software for Electronic Document Management, together with 3 researchers from the IT Faculty of the VUB.
Later on he joined RAM during its start-up phase where he focused on business development.In 1998 he became Marketing Director, at international level, of AES Prodata. Afterwards he worked part time as the International Sales Manager – and eventually evolved to Vice President (Sales and) Marketing – at Enfocus Software. A job which he combined with his work as a professional photographer for major Belgian magazines and newspapers.
Since October 2004 he is project leader entrepreneurship at the research group Business Economics and Strategic Policy BEDR) of the VUB, with the mandate to develop the course “entrepreneurship” and in 2007 he also became responsible for a project around the teaching of entrepreneurship in technological engineering curruculums.

Christian Bluemelhuber

Christian Bluemelhuber is one of Europe’s most distinguished experts in the area of marketing innovation. He currently holds the Interbrew Baillet-Latour Chair in Euro-marketing at Solvay. Following graduation from the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich (M.A., Ph.D.), he served as assistant professor at the Technical University of Munich, assistant professor at the Virginia Tech University and Ogilvy Professor for Brand Management at Solvay. Professor Bluemelhuber gained practical experience as assistant director at the Center of Global Brand Leadership and as a business consultant for such companies as Daimler-Chrysler, Deutsche Bahn, Gore, Lufthansa, L’Oreal and Oracle.

Freddy Van den Spiegel

In addition to his position at Fortis where he is chief ecnomist and director public affairs, Freddy Van den Spiegel is Professor at the Free University Brussels, Visiting Profes- sor at the Warsaw University, President of the Co-ordination Commit- tee of the Belgian Financial Forum, Chairman of the Consultative Panel of CEBS (Committee for European Banking Supervisors), Member of the Inter Institutional Monitoring Group (Monitoring The Lamfalussy process – mandate of European Parliament), Chairman of the Steering Group Regulation – Supervision of EFR (European Financial Round ta- ble), Chairman of ELEC Belgium (European League for Economic Coop- eration), and Member of the Board of IES (Institute for European Science – Free University Brussels). His research interests are European integra- tion, banking and financial markets, financial regulation and supervision

Bruno Colmant

Bruno Colmant is Deputy Chief Financial Officer of NYSE Euronext. Mr. Colmant was Chief of Staff of the Minister of Finance in Belgium from November 2006 through September 2007. Prior to that, Mr. Colmant was the CFO and a member of the Executive Committee and Board of Directors of ING Group, Belgium . From September 2002 to April 2004 he was the Chief Executive Officer for ING Group, Luxembourg . Prior to that, since 1984, he worked in the audit division Arthur Andersen where he held various executive management positions and special- ized in financial instruments accounting. Mr. Colmant holds a Ph.D. in Applied Economics (Accounting), Brussels University , a MBA from Pur- due University (IN), a Master degree in Tax Law as well as the American CFA, CIA, and CMA certifications.
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Beatriz Armendariz

Visiting professor in Microfinance at the Solvay Business School, Beatriz Arm- endariz is also teaching in departments of Economics at the prestigious Harvard University. She received her Master in Economics from the University of Cambridge in 1986 and her PhD from l’Ecole de Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris) in 1990.
She taught in many renowned universities such as University College London or the Massachusetts Institute of Technology before moving as full time lecturer in 2000. She’s giving you a lecture about main implications of Microfinance in today’s globalized world.

Patricia Garcia-Prieto

Patricia Garcia-Prieto Chevalier completed her undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in Psychology, with specializations on social and organizational psychology, at the University of Queensland. She then obtained a Ph.D. in Psychology (specializing on emotion psychology) at the University of Geneva under the supervision of Prof. K.R. Scherer. During her doctoral studies she was responsible for the professional certificate in Human Resource Management at HEC University of Geneva. After her PhD she held Swiss FNRS visit- ing researcher positions at the University of California Santa Bar- bara and at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Her research breaches across social psychology, emotion psychology and organizational psychology to better understand organizational behaviour. Her research interests include diversity management, multicultural teams, emotion in teams and organizations, and intercultural communication. Patricia currently holds the Suez Professorship in Leadership and Personnel Development at Solvay Business School.

André Sapir

André Sapir holds a PhD in Economics from The Johns Hopkins University, 1977. He is professor at ULB, where he holds a chair in international economics and European integration. He is also a Senior Fellow of the Brussels European and Global Economic Laboratory (BRUEGEL) and a Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). In addition, he is a member of European Commission Pres- ident Jose Manuel Barroso’s Economic Policy Analysis Group. He was an Economic Adviser to European Commission President Romano Prodi (2001-2004) and the Chairman of the High-Level Study Group appointed by him that produced the 2003 report “An Agenda for a Growing Europe”, widely known as the “Sapir Report”, published by Oxford University Press in March 2004.

He is a founding Editorial Board Member of the World Trade Review, published by Cambridge University Press and the World Trade Organisation. He is giving you a lecture on the European model of development.