holds a Master's degree in business engineering from the University of Leuven as well as a postgraduate in tax sciences. She is a certified public accountant and has been a partner at Deloitte for more than twenty years, where she developed the M&A practice for national and international investors in various sectors and headed the Financial Advisory business as managing partner from 2008 to 2019. She was a member of the executive committee of Deloitte Belgium until 2019. In addition, she was part of the global executive team of Deloitte Financial Advisory from 2015 to 2021. Currently she is also a non-executive, independent director and chair of the audit committee at Telenet Group, CFE and Doctors without Borders as well as non-executive, independent director at Montea.