Member of the Board of Directors
Member of the Audit and Finance Committee
Appointed 1998
Baudouin Velge (°1955) started in 1983 as Attaché of the Department of Economic Studies of the National Bank of Belgium. In 1987 he joined the Philips Electronics Group until 1991, when he transferred to the Cobac Group (now Eler-Hermes). In the Cobac Group, Baudouin Velge held several positions as General Manager, Cobac Services Belgium, Director Sogasander, member of the Board of Management, Director Cobac Services Netherlands and Secretary of the Board of Directors Cobac S.A. From 1996 till 2004 he was Manager of the Economic Department of the VBO-FEB Federation of Belgian Companies, Deputy Chairman of the Central Economic Council and member of the Board of Directors of Delcredere. From November 2004 till December 2007 he was CEO of Fedis, the Federation of Belgian Retailers. Currently he is CEO of Interel Belgium PR & PA, a strategic communications and public affairs consultancy, since December 2007.
Baudouin Velge is member of the Board of Cofinimmo and member of the Advisory Board of BT Benelux.
Furthermore, Baudouin Velge has teaching experience as Lecturer Macroeconomics at the Universities of St Louis, Pennsylvania, and at Louvain and HUB, the "Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussels" in Belgium.
Baudouin Velge holds a Baccalaureate in Philosophy (1978) and a Master's Degree in Economics (1979) from the Catholic University of Louvain. He became PhD in Economics in 1983 at the University of Pennsylvania.