Author Bios

Filippe de Potter is the director inward investment at Flanders Investment and Trade.

He graduated from EHSAL-HUB (member of the Leuven University Association) with a master degree in international business management. He attended the Brussels business school ICHEC, where he read political sciences.

Between 1999 to 2008 he was project manager inward investment at the Invest in France Agency Benelux, where he assisted Belgian companies with their investments in France. 

Filippe has been since 2009 deputy director inward investment at Flanders Investment and Trade, the government agency promoting foreign investments and assisting foreign companies to set up business or expand operations in Flanders (Northern region of Belgium). He is actively involved in advising international companies with their expansion in Europe and with their investments in Flanders.