François
de Visscher, the first chairman of the Society
of Friends of Belgium in America, is the Founder and President
of de Visscher & Co., an Investment Banking and Private Equity
Firm based in Greenwich, Connecticut; a Board Member of Bekaert
N.V. in Belgium, a member of the board of the King Baudouin Foundation
in the United States, and of the Belgian American Chamber of Commerce.
He is active on many profit and nonprofit boards.
Karel Engelen,
Policy Director of International Swaps and Derivatives
Association,
oversees global credit derivatives policy and is head of Financial
products Markup Language.
Frédérique
Raeymaekers shuttles between Shanghai and New
York in her new career as International Marketing Consultant,
with offices in North America. This long-time resident of New
York City was formerly the Director of the Belgian Tourist Office.
Charles-Antoine
Van Campenhout manages his own global equity fund,
which is based in Paris and New York City. However, he tends his
garden in Bellport, New York.
Gaston E. van
Duyse-Adam, lecturer on International Relations
at the University of Shanghai and at the University of California
San Diego, is a former Belgian Ambassador to (in succession) Bosnia-Herzegovina,
Macedonia, Egypt and Sudan, Mexico and Belize, People’s
Republic of China and Mongolia, and he served as Consul General
in Hong Kong.
Béatrice
Vornle von Haagenfels, former banker and financier,
now devotes her “high-voltage” energy to volunteer
work and fund-raising for various charities and civic causes,
as well as to raise five equally energetic children.
Mona C. Chammas, is
an associate at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz in New York.
She came to the U.S. with a Fulbright Fellowship, and graduated
with a LL.M from Columbia University. A true Belgian patriot,
she worked with the Belgian Representation to the UN Security
Council, and is involved in the Belgian American Educational
Foundation.
