Herman Daems#
| Membership Number: | 483 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | ECONOMICS, BUSINESS & MANAGEMENT SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 1989 |
| Main Country of Residence: | BELGIUM |
Present and Previous Positions
- since 2012 Chairman of the Board of Directors of the KU Leuven
- 2005-2012 Chairman of IPEV
- since 2009 Chairman, Chairman of Governance, Nomination & Remuneration Committee and Member of Audit, Risk & Compliance Committee BNP Paribas Fortis SA/NV
- 2004-2005 Chairman of the European Private Equity and Venture Capital Association
- since 1999 Director, Coware LLC
- 1999-2011 Chairman of BARCO
- 1999-2011 Chairman of the Board of Directors of GIMV
- 1995-98 Director of the Cabinet of the Flemish Minister of Economics and Media
- 1991-1994 Director of the Leuven MBA-program
- 1990-1993 Partner of Horringa & DeKoning of the Boston Consulting Group
- 1987-1990 Visiting Professor at the Harvard Business School teaching Competition & Strategy in the MBA-program
- 1987-1990 Held visiting faculty appointments at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA), the University of California in Davis (UCD), IESE in Barcelona and the University of Groningen in the Netherlands
- 1975 PhD in Economics at the Catholic University of Leuven
- Studies: Theoretical Physics (1968) and Economics (1972) at K.U. Leuven
Fields of Scholarship
- Business management
- Business administration
Honours and Awards
- a fellow of different institutions in New York, Washington, Belgium and at the NATO
- 2014 Admitted to the Belgian nobility with the title of baron
- 2012 After the announcement of the closure of Ford Genk he received the order of the Flemish government to work out a master plan for the redevelopment of the industrial infrastructure of the province of Limburg
- 2009 Prize for Leadership of the VMA, the Flemish Management Association
- 1999 The triennial prize from The Federation of Enterprises in Belgium (FEB)
