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BELGIAN ECONOMIC MISSION 23 > 30 June 2018 ARGENTINA URUGUAY PARTICIPANTS BROCHURE © Gentileza Uruguay XXI © Gentileza PUBLICATION DATE: 24 APRIL 2018 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. 23 > 30 June 2018 BELGIAN ECONOMIC MISSION ARGENTINA URUGUAY Organized by the regional agencies for the promotion of Foreign Trade & Investment (Brussels Invest & Export by hub.brussels, Flanders Investment & Trade (FIT), Wallonia Export-Investment Agency), FPS Foreign Affairs and the Belgian Foreign Trade Agency. ARGENTINA URUGUAY 4 BELGIAN ECONOMIC MISSION BELGIAN ECONOMIC MISSION CALENDAR 2018 MOROCCO 25 > 30 November 2018 CALENDAR 2019 MEXICO 17 > 23 February 2019 CHINA 18 > 22 November 2019 (The dates are subject to change) ARGENTINA URUGUAY HRH PRINCESS ASTRID OF BELGIUM REPRESENTATIVE OF HIS MAJESTY THE KING © FPS Chancery of the Prime Minister-Directorate-General External Communication-Belgium - Photographe:Shimera-Ansotte Communication-Belgium External of the Prime Minister-Directorate-General © FPS Chancery 6 BELGIAN ECONOMIC MISSION Her Royal Highness Princess Astrid, Princess mothers and people lacking in education and On 20 June 2013, the Secretariat of the of Belgium, was born in Brussels on 5 June skills. Ottawa Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention 1962. She is the second child of King Albert II announced that Princess Astrid - as Special and Queen Paola. In late June 2009, the International Paralympic Envoy of the Convention - would be part of Committee (IPC) Governing Board ratified the a working group tasked with promoting the After her secondary education in Brussels, appointment of Princess Astrid as a member treaty at a diplomatic level in states that had Princess Astrid studied art history for a year of the IPC Honorary Board. not yet joined. in Leiden in the Netherlands. She completed her education in Geneva, at the Institute of In January 2010, the charity Action Damien/ Princess Astrid joined the Belgian Armed European Studies and in Michigan in the Damiaanactie announced that Princess Forces on 22 May 1997. She is a colonel in the United States. Astrid had agreed to take over from HM Medical Unit. Queen Fabiola as Honorary President of the In Brussels on 22 September 1984, Princess organisation. The Princess is involved in the public activities Astrid married Lorenz, Archduke of Austria- of the Royal Family. Este, who became Prince of Belgium in 1995. As Honorary President of the Queen Elisabeth Medical Foundation (QEMF) and the King Princess Astrid represented the King at his The couple has five children, all born in Baudouin Foundation’s Scientific and Medical request during the trade missions to Angola Belgium: Amedeo (21 February 1986), Maria Funds, Princess Astrid lends her support & South Africa and to India in 2013, to the Laura (26 August 1988), Joachim (9 December to fundamental medical research. She is Kingdom of Saudi Arabia & the Sultanate of 1991), Luisa Maria (11 October 1995) and involved in the fight against epidemics and Oman, to Colombia & Peru and to Malaysia 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, to Indonesia and to the United States of concern for those in society who risk falling also committed to championing the victims America-Texas in 2016 and to the Republic of through the net. She supports initiatives that of violence, most notably in efforts to combat Korea and to the Republic of Côte d’Ivoire in assist the disadvantaged, in particular single antipersonnel mines. 2017. 7 ARGENTINA URUGUAY HE DIDIER REYNDERS DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND EUROPEAN AFFAIRS, IN CHARGE OF BELIRIS AND FEDERAL CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS 8 BELGIAN ECONOMIC MISSION Born in Liège on August 6th, 1958 ACADEMICAL FUNCTIONS • Chairman of the Provincial and District MR Married - 4 children • Lecturer / Visiting Professor at the Hautes Federation (1995-2004) Etudes commerciales of Liège (1989-2004) • Member of the Bureau and Deputy Chairman GOVERNMENT POSITIONS • Visiting Professor – HEC Management School of the Liberal International (2005 - 2011) • Minister of Finance (1999 - 2011) of the University of Liège (2005-2017) • Chairman of the Mouvement Réformateur • Chairman of the Eurogroup (January - • Staff member of the Public Law Department at (2004 - 2011) December 2001) the University of Liège • Member and Leader of the MR Group of the • President of the Ecofin (July - December 2001 • Visiting Lecturer at the Louvain School of Uccle Town Council (since 3 December 2012) / July 2010 - December 2010) Management – Université catholique de • Chairman of the Brussels MR Federation • Member of the G7 in 2001 Louvain (2007 – to this day) (since 12 January 2013) • Chairman of the G10, which is the meeting of • Lecturer at the Université libre de Bruxelles the main creditor States, in 2002 (2017- to this day) PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES • Minister in charge of the Belgian Buildings • Lawyer (1981 - 1985) Agency (2003 - 2011) POLITICAL ACTIVITIES • Director General of the Local Authorities • Deputy Prime Minister since 18 July 2004 • Chief of staff of the Deputy Prime Minister, Department of the Ministry of the Walloon • Minister of Institutional Reforms (2004 - 2011) Minister of Justice and Institutional Reforms, Region (1985 - 1988) • Minister in charge of the National Lottery, the Jean Gol (1987 - 1988) • Chairman of the National Railway Company of Federal Holding and Investment Company • Member of the Liège Town Council (1988 - Belgium (1986 - 1991) (FHIC) and the insurance companies (2007 - 2012) • Chairman of the National Society of Airways 2011) • Leader of the MR Group of the Liège Town (1991 - 1993) • Minister of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Trade and Council (1995 - 2012) European Affairs (2011 - 2014) • Deputy Chairman of the MR (1992 - 2004) • Minister of Foreign Affairs and European • Member of Parliament since 1992 Affairs, in charge of Beliris and Federal • Chairman of the PRL-FDF Group (1995 - 1999) Cultural Institutions since 11 October 2014 9 ARGENTINA URUGUAY HE KRIS PEETERS FEDERAL DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER AND MINISTER OF EMPLOYMENT, ECONOMY AND CONSUMER AFFAIRS IN CHARGE OF FOREIGN TRADE 10 BELGIAN ECONOMIC MISSION Born on May 18th, 1962. Married. Fisheries and Rural Policy, Government of EDUCATION Flanders (Belgium) Special degree in Accountancy and Tax Law, POLITICAL CAREER • 2004 - 2007 Vlerick School of Management, Ghent • 2014 - Minister for Public Works, Energy, M.A. in Law, University of Antwerp, Antwerp Deputy Prime Minister, federal Government Environment and Nature, Government of B.A. in Philosophy, University of Antwerp, (Belgium) Flanders (Belgium) Antwerp • 2014 - Minister of Employment, Economy and PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE HONORARY TITLES Consumer Affairs, in charge of Foreign • 1999 - 2004 • 2008 Trade, federal Government (Belgium) Managing Director, UNIZO (Organisation of Honorary Degree, Moscow Sate Institute of • 2009 - 2014 Self-Employed and SMEs) International Relations Minister-President, Government of • 1994 - 1999 • 2005 Flanders (Belgium) Secretary General, UNIZO, Brussels Honorary Managing Director, UNIZO • 2009 - 2014 • 1991 - 1994 • 2005 Minister for Economy, Foreign Policy, Director Research Department, UNIZO, Honorary Secretary-General, FVIB Agriculture and Rural Policy, Government Brussels (Federation of self-employed professionals) of Flanders (Belgium) • 1989 - 1991 • 2005 • 2007 - 2009 Lecturer, Limburg University Centre, Honorary President, FBS (Flanders Minister-President, Government of Hasselt Business School) Flanders (Belgium) • 1988 - 1991 • 2007 - 2009 Counsellor fiscal matters, UNIZO, Brussels Minister for Institutional Reform, • 1986 - 1988 Administrative Affairs, Foreign Policy, Lawyer, Storme, Leroy, Van Parys and Media, Tourism, Ports, Agriculture, Sea Doolaege, Ghent 11 ARGENTINA URUGUAY HE PIERRE-YVES JEHOLET VICE-PRESIDENT AND MINISTER OF ECONOMY, INDUSTRY, RESEARCH, INNOVATION, DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY, EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING OF THE WALLOON GOVERNMENT 12 BELGIAN ECONOMIC MISSION Born in Verviers on October 6th, 1968 PREVIOUS POLITICAL ACTIVITIES PREVIOUS PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES Married, 2 children • Minority Leader (MR) – Walloon Parliament – • Deputy chief of staff and spokesman to the from 22nd October 2014 to 27th July 2017; Minister of Finance from July 1999 to July EDUCATION • Walloon and community Deputy from 23rd 2003; • Msc in Communication (UCL, Louvain-la- June 2009 to 27th July 2017; • Editor-in-chief in charge of communication Neuve). • Federal Deputy from 26th June 2007 to 23rd at « Réseau Radio Ciel » from January 1993 • Bachelor in Law (ULiège). June 2009; to December 1995; • Secondary school - Collège Marie-Thérèse in • Walloon Deputy from 29th June 2004 to 26th • Press Officer to the PRL-FDF political group Herve (Mathematics-Languages). June 2007; President at the House of Representatives