Nicolas de Potter d'Indoye
Biography
Nicolas DE POTTER (born in 1958)
Address
mailto: rep@scarlet.be
Phone: +32(0)475 45 38 75
| CV | |
| Family & hobby | Married Carine T'KINT who gave us six kids aged from two to twenty years old. |
| Education | |
| 1960 - 1977 | Humanities diploma, Modern Languages major, College St. Stanislas, Brussels |
| 1978 - 1980 | Graduate degree Economics, Hogeschool voor Handelswetenschappen, Antwerp |
| 1980 - 1982 | BA Marketing and Communications, European University, Antwerp |
| 1982 - 1983 | Master of Information Systems, University of Dallas, Texas |
| 1987 - 1987 | Certificate in Public Affairs, ULB/VUB, Brussels |
| Military | |
| 1984 - 2004 | Reserve Major, Belgian Terrestrial Forces HQ |
| Career | |
| 1978 - 1983 | Various internships with sportsguide publisher, farms, warehouse, building renovation firms, demolition firm, ranch, containerline, train company, security products firm, etc. |
| 1983 - 1987 | Bristol-Myers-Squibb : developing creatively market position of world healthcare leader |
| 1987 - 1991 | Star European Properties : promoting EU communications of belgian real-estate leader |
| 1991 - 1996 | General Delegation of Québec : building European partnerships for Canada in Brussels |
| 1996 - 2000 | Euroregion eeig : obtaining EU Interreg funds to achieve concrete Inter-regional projects |
| 2000 - 2008 | REP Agency : researching, evaluating, developing, reporting, promoting services for: |
| European Institutions | |
| European Commission : acredited expert with DG Regio ('00-'02) | |
| European Commission ProInvest : helped DG to find UK-experts ('04) | |
| European Commission FP7 : served as independant expert-evaluator ('07) | |
| European Social Fund Art6 : designed projects for "active ageing" ('06-'07) | |
| European Commission FP6 : created consortia for IST calls ('05-'06) http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/events/ ict_bio_2006/docs/concert-meet-projects/cast-w.pdf |
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| European and International Media | |
| Wall Street Journal Europe : assignment to create EU Advisory Board ('08) | |
| EU Tempo magazine : sent out of Luxemburg to all European officers ('07) | |
| FreeStyle magazine : sent from Germany to officials of Nato/Shape/UN ('06) | |
| European Artisans magazine : helped to fund/ create it in 7 languages ('05) | |
| Trends International, Roularta Media Group : special reporter mission ('04)http://www.cfsites.org/sites/europe/ nic_trends_intl_at_european_parliament.doc |
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| NGO's and EU Agencies | |
| Created a Euro-cooperative for active ageing equal opportunities CAST ('07) | |
| Created and helped the European Children Advocacy Network ('96-'08) | |
| and successfully achieved several collaborations ('00-'08) with EURES, CEDEFOP, European Territorial Employment Pact, European Women Lobby, European Media Women, European Vocational Learning Institute ... | |
| Industry | |
| Interoute : largest European telecom provider (>40.000 Km opticable) | |
| Vestas : world largest producer of wind turbines (>50.000 installed) | |
| Neumann : important executive search company (>30 countries) | |
