Areas of Focus Industry and Energy Healthcare Construction and Infrastructure Public & Not for profit Non-executive and executive Board searches Michel builds long-term relations of trust by repeatedly and successfully working for clients on local and international assignments ranging from General Management to R&D. He puts a high emphasis on matching hard and soft skills requirements, including for the most complex assignments, taking cultural dimensions into account. Michel has extensive international experience and lived abroad for many years. Before joining Hoffman in 2004, he had 20 years’ corporate experience in various management and executive roles with the International Labour Office (ILO), Solvay and ABB (Asea Brown Boveri), where he was Vice President Performance Services at global level. Qualifications Michel holds a Master of Sciences in Engineering and Architecture from UCL university in Belgium, and a post-graduate degree in Economics and Social Sciences from the IHEID and the University of Geneva, Switzerland. He is fluent in French, Dutch and English.