Speakers

Karel Baert is CEO of Febelfin since April 2020. Before joining Febelfin he was Partner with Egon Zehnder, a global leadership advisory firm where he was a core member of their Financial Services and Public Sector Practice Groups serving banks, supervisors and multilateral organizations on an international basis.

After his studies, Karel started his career as an attorney with Loeff Claeys Verbeke (now Allen & Overy) in Brussels. After that, he worked for 10 years with Deutsche Bank in Belgium and Germany where he held several management positions in corporate and retail banking. Before joining Egon Zehnder, he was Executive Board Member of the Postbank and General Manager Retail of the Belgian Post Group.

Karel has a Master in Law from the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium and has participated in the Foreign Lawyers Program of the DAAD in Tübingen, Düsseldorf and München, Germany.

Career

Michael Anseeuw started his career in 1996 as a consultant with the Accenture group. In 2000, he co founded and took over the online consulting firm Smartizens.com, before joining Fortis in 2001. In 2006, he was appointed CFO of Fortis Consumer Finance Group, before taking over the Strategy and Business Development of Fortis Retail Banking in 2007. In 2014, he was appointed Head of Retail Banking at BNP Paribas Fortis, joining the bank’s Executive Board in 2015. On 1 January 2023, Michael Anseeuw became CEO and Chairman of the Executive Board of BNP Paribas Fortis. In this capacity, he is a member of the BNP Paribas Group Executive Committee.

Education

Michael Anseeuw holds a degree in physics and civil engineering from the University of Ghent (Belgium).