Alain Deneef
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Alain Deneef is a Belgian
businessman and urban expert.
As an expert in urban issues and civil society, he is the founder and secretary general of Aula Magna http://www.aula-magna.eu/Home.html a Brussels based think-tank created in 2005. Within Aula Magna he organized the first Brussels Citizens University (2010). He also helped to launch and coordinate in 2008 the Citizen’s Forum of Brussels http://www.etatsgenerauxdebruxelles.be/?Citizens-forum-of-Brussels , a unique effort in mobilising civil society around the future of Brussels. This endeavour won the Flemish :nl: Prijs voor de Democratie in July 2010.
As businessman, he has held top management positions in Canal+ Belgium, Belgacom
and the SNCB - the Belgian railway company, among others. Currently a strategic consultant, he helps medium and large organisations foresee the impact of technological, financial, social, demographic, environmental, urban and political change on their future.
He has served as president of a number of clubs and associations amongst which the Brussels chapter of the Young Presidents' Organization (YPO) and the Alumni association of the :fr: Collège Saint-Michel (Bruxelles). He is a member of the Consultative Council of the Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management. He is the President of the European Quarter Fund http://www.kbs-frb.be/fund.aspx?id=191674&LangType=2060#, a corporate fund managed by the King Baudouin Foundation, which acts as a bridge between public and private actors in the European Quarter in Brussels.
He was educated at the Université Libre de Bruxelles
(ULB), where he obtained the degrees of Business Engineer (Solvay Brussels School) and Law and Philosophy (1984). He is fluent in French, Dutch and English. He lives in Ixelles (Brussels Region).
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businessman and urban expert.
As an expert in urban issues and civil society, he is the founder and secretary general of Aula Magna http://www.aula-magna.eu/Home.html a Brussels based think-tank created in 2005. Within Aula Magna he organized the first Brussels Citizens University (2010). He also helped to launch and coordinate in 2008 the Citizen’s Forum of Brussels http://www.etatsgenerauxdebruxelles.be/?Citizens-forum-of-Brussels , a unique effort in mobilising civil society around the future of Brussels. This endeavour won the Flemish :nl: Prijs voor de Democratie in July 2010.
As businessman, he has held top management positions in Canal+ Belgium, Belgacom
Belgacom
The Belgacom Group is the largest telecommunications company in Belgium, headquartered in Brussels. Belgacom Group is primarily state owned, with the Belgian state holding 53.3% + 1 share...
and the SNCB - the Belgian railway company, among others. Currently a strategic consultant, he helps medium and large organisations foresee the impact of technological, financial, social, demographic, environmental, urban and political change on their future.
He has served as president of a number of clubs and associations amongst which the Brussels chapter of the Young Presidents' Organization (YPO) and the Alumni association of the :fr: Collège Saint-Michel (Bruxelles). He is a member of the Consultative Council of the Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management. He is the President of the European Quarter Fund http://www.kbs-frb.be/fund.aspx?id=191674&LangType=2060#, a corporate fund managed by the King Baudouin Foundation, which acts as a bridge between public and private actors in the European Quarter in Brussels.
He was educated at the Université Libre de Bruxelles
Université Libre de Bruxelles
The Université libre de Bruxelles is a French-speaking university in Brussels, Belgium. It has 21,000 students, 29% of whom come from abroad, and an equally cosmopolitan staff.-Name:...
(ULB), where he obtained the degrees of Business Engineer (Solvay Brussels School) and Law and Philosophy (1984). He is fluent in French, Dutch and English. He lives in Ixelles (Brussels Region).