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BELGIAN ECONOMIC MISSION 22 > 28 November 2014 MALAYSIA SINGAPORE PARTICIPANTS BROCHURE Publication date: 28th October 2014 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 websites of the Belgian Foreign Trade Agency www.abh-ace.be and www.belgianeconomicmission.be BELGIAN ECONOMIC MISSION TO MALAYSIA & SINGAPORE 22 > 28 November 2014 Organised by the regional agencies for the promotion of Foreign Trade & Investment (Brussels Invest & Export, Flanders Investment & Trade (FIT), Wallonia Export- Investment Agency (AWEX)), FPS Foreign Affairs and the Belgian Foreign Trade Agency. 4 MALAYSIA & SINGAPORE BELGIAN ECONOMIC MISSION 5 BELGIAN ECONOMIC CALENDAR 2014 MISSIONS KINGDOM OF SAUDI ARABIA & SULTANATE OF OMAN 14 > 21 March COLOMBIA & PERU 18 > 25 October MALAYSIA & SINGAPORE 22 > 28 November CALENDAR 2015 QATAR & UNITED ARAB EMIRATES 21 – 26 March BRAZIL 2nd half of May (The dates are subject to change) 6 MALAYSIA & SINGAPORE 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 © FPS Chancery of the Prime Minister-Directorate-General BELGIAN ECONOMIC MISSION 7 HRH Princess Astrid, Princess of Belgium The Princess is also active in the fight against Since 22 November 1996, HRH Princess was born in Brussels on 5 June 1962. She is epidemics and pandemics: i.e. as “Special Astrid has been a member of the Belgian the second child of King Albert II and Queen Representative” of the Roll Back Malaria Senate as senator by right. She also joined Paola, and the sister of the King. partnership to fight malaria. the Belgian Armed Forces on 22 May 1997. The Princess is a Colonel in the Medical Unit. At the request of His Majesty the King, HRH HRH Princess Astrid is also particularly con- Princess Astrid represented him and pre- cerned by the plight of victims of violence. HRH Princess Astrid performs her public sided over the economic missions to Angola She is therefore fully engaged in the efforts duties as expected within the context of the and South Africa in October 2013, to India to ban antipersonnel mines. Royal Family with particular interest for the in November 2013, to the Kingdom of Saudi problems of our contemporary society. Arabia and the Sultanate of Oman in March HRH Princess Astrid is also a member of 2014 and to Colombia and Peru in October the International Paralympics Committee HRH Princess Astrid studied art history at 2014. It is widely recognised that missions Honorary Board. She is also the Honorary Leiden in the Netherlands. She completed such as these have a positive impact on the President of the non-profit association her education in Geneva, at the Institute development of economic and trade relations Damien Action. of European Studies and in Michigan in the between Belgium and its regions and many United States. overseas partners. They also enable bridges HRH Princess Astrid is known to be highly to be built between Belgian and foreign com- concerned about persons who - through a On 22 September 1984, HRH Princess panies as well as between Belgian compa- variety of circumstances - become margin- Astrid married in Brussels Lorenz, Arch- nies themselves. alised citizens. She visits and encourages in Duke d’Autriche-Este, who became Prince many ways those Organisations which offer of Belgium in 1995. The Prince was born in As Honorary Chairwoman of the Queen assistance to those who are in need of help. Boulogne-Billancourt on 16 December 1955. Elisabeth Medical Foundation (QEMF), the European Organisation on Research and On June 20th 2013, the Secretariat of the The princely couple has five children, all born Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) Charitable Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention/Ottawa in Belgium: Amedeo (21 February 1986), Trust and the Science and Medical Funds of Convention announced that HRH Princess Maria Laura (26 August 1988), Joachim (9 the King Baudouin Foundation, HRH Princess Astrid - as Special Envoy of the Convention - December 1991), Luisa Maria (11 October Astrid supports clinical and fundamental has joined a task force which will undertake 1995) and Laetitia Maria (23 April 2003). research. diplomatic efforts to obtain the signature of the Convention by States not yet party to it. 8 MALAYSIA & SINGAPORE HE DIDIER REYNDERS Federal Deputy Prime Minister Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Affairs BELGIAN ECONOMIC MISSION 9 Born in Liège on August 6th, 1958 Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Deputy Chairman of the MR (1992-2004) Married - 4 children Affairs, in charge of Beliris and Federal Member of Parliament since 1992 Cultural Institutions since 11 October 2014 GOVERNMENT POSITIONS Chairman of the PRL-FDF Group ACADEMICAL FUNCTIONS (1995-1999) Minister of Finance (1999-2011) Chairman of the Mouvement Réformateur Lecturer at the Hautes Ecoles Chairman of the Eurogroup (January - (2004-2011) commerciales of Liège December 2001) Member and Leader of the MR Group of Staff member of the Public Law President of the Ecofin (July - December the Uccle Town Council (since 3 December Department at the University of Liège 2001 / July 2010 - December 2010) 2012) Guest lecturer at the Université catholique Minister in charge of the Belgian Buildings Chairman of the Brussels MR Federation de Louvain (Louvain business school Agency (2003-2011) (since 12 January 2013) (UCL) Deputy Prime Minister since 18 July 2004 PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES POLITICAL ACTIVITIES Minister of Institutional Reforms Lawyer (1981-1985) (2004-2011) Chief of staff of the Deputy Prime Minister, Director General of the Local Authorities Minister in charge of the National Lottery, Minister of Justice and Institutional Department of the Ministry of the Walloon the Federal Holding and Investment Reforms, Mr Jean Gol (1987-1988) Region (1985-1988) Company (FHIC) and the insurance Member of the Liège Town Council since companies (2007-2011) Chairman of the National Railway October 1988 Company of Belgium (1986-1991) Minister of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Trade Leader of the MR Group of the Liège Town and European Affairs since 6 December Chairman of the National Society of Council since 1995 2011 Airways (1991-1993) 10 MALAYSIA & SINGAPORE HE PIETER DE CREM Federal Secretary of State for Foreign Trade BELGIAN ECONOMIC MISSION 11 Born on 22 July 1962 in Aalter Married to Caroline Bergez and father of Constantijn, Alicia and Victoria EDUCATION 1992-1993 10 June 2007 - 21 December 2007 Master of Romanic Philology at KU Attaché at the private office of Minister of Chairman of the Commission for the Leuven – Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Defense Leo Delcroix Interior at the House of Representatives (Dutch-speaking Catholic University of 1993-1994 21 December 2007 – 10 October 2014 Leuven ) Adviser in “De fabrieken van de Minister of Defense Master of European and international Gebroeders De Beukelaar” Law at VUB –Vrije Universiteit Brussel 5 March 2013 – 10 October 2014 Since 1995 (Dutch-speaking Free University of Deputy Prime Minister Brussels ) Mayor of Aalter, re-elected in 2000, 2006 Commander in the Order of Leopold and 2012. PROFESSIONAL EXPERTISE 1995 LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY 1987-1989 CVP Member of Parliament of the Pieter De Crem is Dutch native speaker. He Assistant in Roularta Media Group constituency for Ghent-Eeklo, re-elected in 1999 speaks and writes fluently in French, English, 1989-1995 German, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese. He Since 2003 also has a basic knowledge of Russian. Chairman of the youth CVP (Christelijke Volkspartij – Christian People’s Party) CD&V Member of Parliament of the Section Ghent–Eeklo constituency for Oost-Vlaanderen (East –Flanders), re-elected in 2007 1989-1992 31 May 2003 - 21 December 2007 Attaché at the private office of Prime Minister Wilfried Martens Chairman of CD&V parliamentary party at the House of Representatives 12 MALAYSIA & SINGAPORE HE GEERT BOURGEOIS Minister-President of the Government of Flanders Flemish Minister for Foreign Policy and Immovable Heritage BELGIAN ECONOMIC MISSION 13 Geert Bourgeois is Minister-President of the Flemish commitment Commemoration of World War I Government of Flanders, the first government to be led by the N-VA. He is also responsible Lawyer and attorney Geert Bourgeois took Under the vision and steering of Geert in the government for Foreign Policy and his first steps in local politics in 1977. In Bourgeois, the Government of Flanders has Immovable Cultural Heritage. 1995, he entered the Belgian House of decided to frame the commemoration of Representatives, where he was known as the Great War Centennial 2014-2018 within Geert has been Minister in the Government of a legal specialist. After the break-up of his an overarching compass that embraces Flanders since 2004. In 2009, he became Vice- former party, the Volksunie, he founded the themes ‘war and peace’, ‘remembrance and Minister-President. Over the years, he has Nieuw-Vlaamse Alliantie (N-VA) in 2001 and awareness’, ‘the European idea’, thus to open been responsible for matters, such as: Local became the first Chairman. In 2004, he moved our minds to the perpetuating memory of our and Provincial Government, Administrative to the Government of Flanders. past... thus to learn an indelible lesson for the Affairs, Foreign Policy, Civic Orientation, future. Media and Tourism, Immovable