Defence Leaders

Senior Consultant Land Advisory Group

EUSPA - EU Agency for the Space Programme

Finabel has been listed as a Public Partner of the EU Space ISAC, which held its General Assembly on 20 September.
The main objective of the EU SPACE ISAC is to enhance the security and resilience of the space sector by raising awareness and developing the expertise of its Members. The initiative will engage the industry, public sector institutions and academia and act as a network-based information-sharing platform, connecting its Participants in a trusted environment.
The EU SPACE ISAC will serve as the primary communication channel for the space sector regarding security-related information and the sharing of best practices. It will support the development of relevant knowledge, services, and resources to enable Members to prevent, tackle, and mitigate security challenges more effectively and efficiently.

Strategic Advisor

Finabel - The European Land Force Commanders Organisation

Taking care of the management and the daily business of the organisation, under supervision of the country holding the presidency.

Director

Senior Subject Matter Expert Cyber Defense

Deputy Chief

NATO Land Operations Working Group (LOWG)

Member Research Development

NATO

Contracting Specialist

With over 30 years of experience in the defence domain, I am the Director of Finabel HQ, the European Land Force Commanders Organisation, where I lead the management and daily business of the organisation. I am also the organisation's international representative. My strategic planning, leadership, and negotiation skills have been honed through my previous roles at Belgian Defence and NATO.

My passion for military interoperability guides my mission to enhance collaboration and mutual understanding among European land forces. I am actively involved in several NATO and EU working groups, where I contribute to international cooperation and effective dialogue on defence policies and issues. I also represent Finabel on a broader stage as a Senior Subject Matter Expert on Cyber Defence. I am dedicated to driving innovation, promoting efficient communication, and ensuring a unified and robust defence system for Europe. I welcome the opportunity to connect with anyone who shares my interests and goals.

Mario Blokken

Belgian Federal Police

Adviseur - onderzoeker (CALog)

Euroports

IPOS (ERP) Trainer - Functional system & operations analyst

Youth Atlantic Treaty Association Belgium

*VOLUNTARY CIVIL ENGAGEMENT*                                                                                                                                      
- conceptualize, plan, coordinate and execute YATA Security Talks, Roundtables and Ambassador Series evenings.
- enhance relations and projects with the broader YATA International network 
- topic research on transatlantic security and defence dynamics (policies, institutions and structures, trainings and exercises, strategic relations,...)
- maintain relations with civilian and military professionals at EU, NATO, national representations, and Belgian Royal Military College (KMS - ERM)

Public Affairs (outreach), Events and Projects officer

Brainbridge - IT Staffing

I conduct the field training and 'hypersupport'​ for INFRABEL technical staff, engineers, and regional asset supervisor of the Brussels capital region railway district, for both Signalling and (smart) Track technologies at the level of Asset Management in the SAP RIAM/RIOC back-end. In the field, I am responsible for transition  from paper reporting to Tablet-enabled asset inventorization for Signaling (incl. ETCS) and Rail maintenance, and report on Key User and End User training processes and functionality of the data network performance for tablet reporting and RIAM/RIOC inventory work.

Application End User Trainer (SMARTER-M project) - back-end (SAP) and on-site

Hogeschool Inholland

Baseline pilot study (concepts, theories, experimental evidence) on  interrelatedness between Leadership and changes in public security assessment at municipal level. Faculty of Business, Law & Security (Research Unit Law & Security).

Junior associate researcher (0,5 FTE)

KTA Campus De Brug

Tutor (docent) - Applied security (Integrale Veiligheidskunde) - 0,5 FTE

Youth Atlantic Treaty Association Belgium (YATA)

Providing editorial input for upcoming YATA publications
Organization of conferences and similar public events (contacts and practical arrangements, content input, acquire support from corporate sponsors/partners, follow-up)

Member of the Board

LSG Sky Chefs

Operational source-to-customer continuity management | In-house and on-board cargo and equipment inspection (content, volume, delivery-as-ordered, including security and food safety)

Care & Quality Assurance officer

Europeans for Fair Roaming

Driving investigative research and sourcing specialised technical and market-economical information (inputs) from third parties to drive a strong advocacy narrative for a multi-channel Europe-wide citizen-run campaign to curtail and neutralize excessive roaming fees charged to consumers in the EU. This broadly implemented, award-winning campaign endorses European measures (legislation and market stimuli) to improve conditions for consumers and businesses and drive competitive roaming pricing mechanisms amongst providers between ‘national telecom borders’. 

My work further involved:
- strategic communications to our civil society followers, advocacy and stakeholder groups and fora  (e.g. NGOs interested in Single Market and consumer power) 
- amplifying an information and experience-driven pan-European civil dialogue and advocacy ‘readiness’
- a clever approach to media-stringing and getting press coverage in mainstream news services, gaining referrals and interviews in The New York Times, International Herald Tribune, The Daily Telegraph, Die Welt, ZDF news broadcasting) and online news syndications and services (Euronews, EurActiv.com, ZDNet and others).
- social media media / outreach impact monitoring and assessment (measuring) using social media analytics

Campaign coordinator & Co-founder

GS1 Belgium&Luxembourg

- design, organisation and execution of trainings
- collaboration with European and international expertise groups (roll-out of services, supply chain advisory groups, technical compliance groups...) 
- client needs analysis and support 
- sector-specific project counseling, e.g. serialized item inventory management , global food traceability processes (compliance, auditing)
- barcodes technology review

Junior Manager - Barcodes & Public Affairs

Expertise of Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP), EU defence and EU-NATO cooperation,  peace and conflict studies, security studies, security governance, crisis response (planning), post-conflict reconstruction, diplomacy, civilian emergency and disaster management and prevention, organisational culture and risk-aversion  vs. risk-blindness..

Other subjects of interest: knowledge management (such as  'lessons learned' in projects and policies), civil-military relations (incl. cooperation), comparative foreign policy, capability planning, maritime protection, history of international relations, history (in particular early 16th-21st Century).

Specialties: reporting and summarising, in-depth topic presentations, conference preparation, project planning and implementation in the area of international affairs/diplomacy and security & defence. Skilled in policy analysis, tenacious research/ data mining skills (archived or online literature and specialised databases), inductive/deductive negotiation technique, proficiency in multiple languages.

TOEFL Test taken twice. Aug 2007 score: 633 (out of 660)
                                     Feb 2014 score: 103 (out of 130)

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