My Job
To give direction to our highly competent team on client servicing, strategic advice and engagement with policy makers. To support our clients manoeuvre the highly political and complex regulatory landscape of the EU.
My Experience
My career has been in consultancy and more specifically consultancy in financial services. I started off in Brussels in a small specialized consultancy, then moved to an international consultancy before starting Afore Consulting in 2007. Our specialization has permitted us to still be going strong at Afore Consulting after almost 20 years. I studied politics, history and economics at university before training as a merchant banker with ABN Amro in Hamburg which gave me a solid foundation for life in consultancy.
My Specialisms
My Proudest Achievements
I have been privileged to contribute to the single market in financial services since first starting to work on it in the 1990’s. I have also been in a unique position to contribute, along with many others, to making the euro a success.
My Education
- Master’s Degree, Politics, Economics and Modern History, Christian-Albrechts University, Kiel, Germany
- University of Limerick, Ireland and PhD Studies, Queen’s University, Belfast, Northern Ireland
My Languages
German, English and French.
My Interests outside work
A growing interest is gardening along with reading and connecting with family and friends. I enjoy the theatre, visiting galleries and exhibitions whenever I can.
As a keen history enthusiast, I am also a member of the British Museum and very much enjoy popping in whenever I have the time when I am in London.
My Favourite Brussels anecdote
In our job we get to walk the corridors of Brussels. Over the years we have met with many individuals and larger than life characters who have been committed to shaping Europe and have been gracious with their time and efforts. To all of them, too many to mention individually, we are greatly indebted. For specific anecdotes you need to drop by. There are too many to recount here.