Personal presentation

My career in Crisis Management started in 1990 in the field of international geo-political crisis management and disaster response.
For several years this involved a combination of academic, commercial and operational work as Emergency Planning & Operations Coordinator of Ghent University (Belgium).
I was involved in crisis management projects from Norway to Northern Africa and in diverse domains ranging from anti-terrorism over floods, pandemics, CBRN incidents to business continuity.
In 2020 I returned to academics to do PhD research in the field of optimisation of crisis management decision making.
My primary field of research interest is into the transdisciplinary complementary interaction of man, group, decision making technique, information, incident and scenario to determine critical factors in crisis management quality.
I am currently also Head of Disaster Relief & Crisis Management for Rotary BeLux (Belgium-Luxemburg) in response to the massive floods that hit Belgium in July 2021.