o Representative in various health policy/advisory bodies (e.g., Vlaamse Raad WVG: vice-chair of the health chamber & member of the intersectoral chamber)o Representative towards regulatory/ethical bodies of liberal professions & senior consultant for professional organisations seeking changes to legal regulationso Primary contact person and coordinator for member associations of health professionals: dentists (VVT), medical doctors (BVAS), nurses (NVKVV & VBZV), pharmacists (APB)… Show more o Representative in various health policy/advisory bodies (e.g., Vlaamse Raad WVG: vice-chair of the health chamber & member of the intersectoral chamber)o Representative towards regulatory/ethical bodies of liberal professions & senior consultant for professional organisations seeking changes to legal regulationso Primary contact person and coordinator for member associations of health professionals: dentists (VVT), medical doctors (BVAS), nurses (NVKVV & VBZV), pharmacists (APB), physiotherapists (AXXON), psychologists (VVKP), speech therapists (VVL), etc. Show less

o Representative in various health policy/advisory bodies (e.g., RIZIV/INAMI: General Council, Insurance Committee & Commission for Budget Control)o Senior consultant for entrepreneurs in the healthcare sector as well as professional organisations seeking changes in legal regulations: access to the profession, continued professional development, professional ethics, quality standards, reserved activities, etc.

o Built a national & political consensus that drove important additions in Belgian lawo Doubled membership, quadrupled income, increased staff from 2 to 11 (9 FTE)o Greatly improved the profession's perception amongst key stakeholders

o Obtained legal reference to professional NGOs in European Directive 2013/55/EUo Negotiated full consensus with 36 member organisations to increase fees by 33%o Co-supervised organisation of 4-day event with >3k participants from 76 countries

o Contributed to understanding and consensus between 10 member associationso Helped drive change in strategy, freeing resources for new projects and staff members

o Taught courses on communication skills and on work & organisational psychologyo Coached students and drafted guidelines for internships and thesis writingo Increased cooperation with relevant companies and NGOs

o Managed a growing team of healthcare policy researcherso Supervised various successful funding applications and project reports o Co-chaired several interdisciplinary conferences on primary care in Flanders

o Acted as link and mediator between two major partners in a large training projecto Contributed to a prospective study on suicide risk detection and assessmento Achieved continued contact with alumni through newsletters and online fora

o Coordinated cooperation between representatives of 25 international organisations of university students (engineering, medicine, pharmacy, etc.)o Lobbied for and obtained important EU policy change on youth organisation funding

o Contributed to a European action research project, from interviews to publicationso Helped develop a scientific model on learning through cooperationo Assisted in teaching courses on group dynamics (theory and simulations)

o Effectively coordinated cooperation between representatives from 27 countrieso Increased membership and doubled number of represented countrieso Established cooperation with counterparts for other continents and disciplines