Mrs. Virginie Michielsen

Biography

Virginie Michielsen is a Belgian national and studied Applied Economics, specialisation in Financial
and General Management, cum laude, in Antwerp. She has a post university degree in European
History, Politics and Law from the I.H.E.E. (Institut des Hautes Etudes Européennes) in  Strasbourg (F).
In September 2018, Virginie Michielsen joined FEDIL as senior business developer and. took the
responsibility to enlarge the membership base and to strengthen the relationship with the members.
As an independent consultant she also has several projects using her strong organisational,
communication and banking background. Since 2016 she is in charge of the follow up of  the daily
management and marketing of the family owned olive farm in Tuscany.

From 2013 to 2018 Virginie Michielsen was heading the Marketing and Communication department at Deloitte Luxembourg and previously she was Head of Corporate Communication & Relations within ING Belgium.

In 1986 she started at BBL (Bank Brussels Lambert) where she had various functions in the corporate Banking department (SMEs and Corporates), the Trade and Commodities finance and the non-resident department.  In 2001 she joined  the Financial Institutions department as business manager of the Global Head FI to integrate the international business of BBL, BHF and ING. From 2007 to 2011 she was heading the Global Trade Banking Department in Amsterdam.

Virginie is strongly involved in business and other networking associations. In January 2008 she joined the BICCI (Belgian Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry) as Director and Vice-President. She is member of the Advisory Board of IBCL (Indian Business Chamber Luxembourg) and vice president of URB-BKV (Union Royale Belge), responsible for the Belgian Business Club in Luxembourg. Since 2016 she is part of the Female Board Pool headed by Rita Knott and in 2018 she joined Women in Business, an initiative launched by Marie-Jeanne Chevremont. She is founding member and past president of Rotary Antwerpen Amerloo. She teaches as a volunteer in a pre-school in Senegal.