Participants Brochure REPUBLIC of KOREA 10 > 17 June 2017 BELGIAN ECONOMIC MISSION
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BELGIAN ECONOMIC MISSION Participants Brochure REPUBLIC OF KOREA 10 > 17 June 2017 BELGIAN ECONOMIC MISSION 10 > 17 June 2017 Organised by the regional agencies for the promotion of Foreign Trade & Investment (Brussels Invest & Export, Flanders Investment & Trade (FIT), Wallonia Export-Investment Agency), FPS Foreign Affairs and the Belgian Foreign Trade Agency. Publication date: 10th May 2017 REPUBLIC OF KOREA This publication contains information on all participants who have registered before its publication date. The profiles of all participants and companies, including the ones who have registered at a later date, are however published on the website of the mission www.belgianeconomicmission.be and on the app of the mission “Belgian Economic Mission” in the App Store and Google Play. Besides this participants brochure, other publications, such as economic studies, useful information guide, etc. are also available on the above-mentioned website and app. REPUBLIC OF KOREA BELGIAN ECONOMIC MISSIONS 4 CALENDAR 2017 IVORY COAST 22 > 26 October 2017 CALENDAR 2018 ARGENTINA & URUGUAY June 2018 MOROCCO End of November 2018 (The dates are subject to change) BELGIAN ECONOMIC MISSION REPUBLIC OF KOREA Her Royal Highness Princess Astrid, Princess mothers and people lacking in education and On 20 June 2013, the Secretariat of the Ot- of Belgium, was born in Brussels on 5 June skills. tawa Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention 1962. She is the second child of King Albert announced that Princess Astrid - as Special II and Queen Paola. In late June 2009, the International Paralym- Envoy of the Convention - would be part of pic Committee (IPC) Governing Board ratified a working group tasked with promoting the After her secondary education in Brussels, the appointment of Princess Astrid as a mem- treaty at a diplomatic level in states that had Princess Astrid studied art history for a year ber of the IPC Honorary Board. not yet joined. at Leiden in the Netherlands. She complet- ed her education in Geneva, at the Institute In January 2010, the charity Action Damien/ Princess Astrid joined the Belgian Armed Forc- of European Studies and in Michigan in the Damiaanactie announced that Princess Astrid es on 22 May 1997. She is a colonel in the United States. had agreed to take over from HM Queen Fa- Medical Unit. HRH biola as Honorary President of the organisa- In Brussels on 22 September 1984, Princess tion. The Princess is involved in the public activi- PRINCESS ASTRID Astrid married Lorenz, Archduke of Austria- ties of the Royal Family. Este, who became Prince of Belgium in 1995. As Honorary President of the Queen Elisa- 6 OF BELGIUM beth Medical Foundation (QEMF) and the Princess Astrid represented the King at his 7 The couple have five children, all born in Bel- King Baudouin Foundation’s Scientific and request during the trade missions to Angola gium: Amedeo (21 February 1986), Maria Medical Funds, Princess Astrid lends her sup- & South Africa and to India in 2013, to the Laura (26 August 1988), Joachim (9 Decem- port to fundamental medical research. She Kingdom of Saudi Arabia & the Sultanate of REPRESENTATIVE OF ber 1991), Luisa Maria (11 October 1995) is involved in the fight against epidemics and Oman, to Colombia & Peru and to Malaysia HIS MAJESTY THE KING and Laetitia Maria (23 April 2003). pandemics, including from 2007 until 2015 & Singapore in 2014, to Qatar & the United as Special Representative of the Roll Back Arab Emirates and to Western Canada in Princess Astrid has always shown particular Malaria (RBM) Partnership. The Princess is 2015 and to Indonesia and to the United concern for those in society who risk falling also committed to championing the victims of States of America-Texas in 2016. through the net. She supports initiatives that violence, most notably in efforts to combat assist the disadvantaged, in particular single antipersonnel mines. BELGIAN ECONOMIC MISSION © FPS Chancery of the Prime Minister-Directorate-General External Communication-Belgium-Photographe: Shimera-Ansotte REPUBLIC OF KOREA Born in Liège on August 6th, 1958 Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Member of Parliament since 1992 Married - 4 children Affairs, in charge of Beliris and Federal Chairman of the PRL-FDF Group (1995 - Cultural Institutions since 11 October 1999) 2014 GOVERNMENT POSITIONS Chairman of the Provincial and District MR Minister of Finance (1999 - 2011) Federation (1995-2004) ACADEMICAL FUNCTIONS Chairman of the Eurogroup (January - Member of the Bureau and Deputy Chairman Lecturer at the Hautes Ecoles December 2001) of the Liberal International (2005 - 2011) commerciales of Liège President of the Ecofin (July - December Chairman of the Mouvement Réformateur Staff member of the Public Law 2001 / July 2010 - December 2010) (2004 - 2011) Department at the University of Liège Member of the G7 in 2001 Member and Leader of the MR Group of Guest lecturer at the Université catholique HE the Uccle Town Council (since 3 December Chairman of the G10, which is the de Louvain (Louvain business school 2012) DIDIER meeting of the main creditor States, in (UCL)) 2002 Chairman of the Brussels MR Federation (since 12 January 2013) 8 REYNDERS Minister in charge of the Belgian Buildings POLITICAL ACTIVITIES 9 Agency (2003 - 2011) Chief of staff of the Deputy Prime Deputy Prime Minister since 18 July 2004 Minister, Minister of Justice and PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES Institutional Reforms, Jean Gol (1987 - Lawyer (1981 - 1985) FEDERAL DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER Minister of Institutional Reforms (2004 - 1988) MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS 2011) Director General of the Local Authorities Member of the Liège Town Council (1988 - Department of the Ministry of the Walloon AND EUROPEAN AFFAIRS Minister in charge of the National Lottery, 2012) Region (1985 - 1988) the Federal Holding and Investment Company (FHIC) and the insurance Leader of the MR Group of the Liège Town Chairman of the National Railway Company companies (2007 - 2011) Council (1995 - 2012) of Belgium (1986 - 1991) Minister of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Trade Deputy Chairman of the MR (1992 - Chairman of the National Society of and European Affairs (2011 - 2014) 2004) Airways (1991 - 1993) BELGIAN ECONOMIC MISSION REPUBLIC OF KOREA Jean-Claude Marcourt is Vice-President and In 2009, Jean-Claude Marcourt was en- Minister of Economy, Industry, Innovation trusted with new challenges and became and New Technologies of the Walloon Govern- Vice-President of the Governments of Wal- ment. He is also Vice-President and Minister lonia and the Wallonia-Brussels Federation, of Higher Education, Research and Media of positions he still practices today with much the Wallonia-Brussels Federation. enthusiasm. He was in charge of the Econo- my, SMEs, Foreign Trade and New Technolo- Holder of a graduate degree in law of the gies in Wallonia and higher education for the University of Liège in 1979, Jean-Claude Wallonia-Brussels Federation. In 2014, these Marcourt began his professional career as competences were reinforced, supplemented a lawyer and did this job with dedication for by Research and Media. HE over 10 years. JEAN-CLAUDE In 1992, he accepted a new challenge, he thought it was for a short period of time, 10 MARCOURT and become chief of staff for the Minister 11 of Home Affairs. A post he held with various ministers until 2004, when he became Minis- ter of Economy and Employment in Wallonia. VICE-PRESIDENT AND MINISTER OF ECONOMY, INDUSTRY, INNOVATION AND He launched and led the Marshall Plan to re- NEW TECHNOLOGIES OF THE WALLOON deploy the economy in Wallonia. 10 years lat- GOVERNMENT er, this dynamic well established in Wallonia has become the backbone of the economic VICE-PRESIDENT AND MINISTER OF HIGHER recovery of the region. EDUCATION, RESEARCH AND MEDIA OF THE WALLONIA-BRUSSELS FEDERATION BELGIAN ECONOMIC MISSION REPUBLIC OF KOREA Born in Antwerp on December 6th, 1961 1997 - 2000 INTERESTS Married to Anne Donckers Chief Executive Officer Vlaams- Trainer, coach and player in the football Economisch Verbond team Amber, reading, traveling and hiking EDUCATION 1992 - 1997 Administrator-general Sociaal- Master of Business Economics, Antwerp Economische Raad van Vlaanderen University, graduated magna cum laude, (SERV) 1984 1989 - 1992 Chief Executive Officer Dynamic (Seghers EMPLOYMENT HISTORY HE Group) and Member of the board of 2009 - 2014 Directors Seghers Engineering PHILIPPE Flemish Minister for Finance, Budget, Work, Town and Country Planning and 1985 - 1989 12 MUYTERS Sport Economical Advisor Research Department 13 Vlaams Economisch Verbond 2000 - 2009 Managing Director Flanders’ Chamber of FLEMISH MINISTER Commerce and Industry (VOKA) FOR WORK, ECONOMY, INNOVATION AND SPORT BELGIAN ECONOMIC MISSION REPUBLIC OF KOREA Born on 22 July 1962 in Aalter 1989 - 1992 10 June 2007 - 21 December 2007 Attaché at the private office of Prime Chairman of the Commission for the Married to Caroline Bergez and father of Minister Wilfried Martens Interior at the House of Representatives Constantijn, Alicia and Victoria 1992 - 1993 Member of the Parliamentary Assembly of Attaché at the private office of Minister of the OSCE Defense Leo Delcroix EDUCATION 21 December 2007 - 10 October 2014 Master of Romanic Philology at KU Leuven 1993 - 1994 Minister of Defense – Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Dutch- Adviser in “De fabrieken van de 5 March 2013 - 10 October 2014 speaking Catholic University of Leuven ) Gebroeders De Beukelaar” Deputy Prime Minister Master of European and international Law Since 1995 Since 10 October