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Rudy Aernoudt is an experienced Professor Corporate Finance and European policy and has an outstanding International and European experience (MIT, OECD, European commission, European Council and European Social and Economic Committee). He, what is unique, occupied Chief of Staff (Director of Cabinet) positions at different governance levels (Europe, Belgium, Flanders, Wallonia). He was Secretary-General for Economy, Science and Innovation, director-general of OLPC (one laptop per child, spinoff MIT) and curator TEDx Brussels. Actually, he is professor Corporate Finance at the universities of Ghent and Nancy and affiliate professor at the BMI - MBA program (founded by HEC Paris and Louvain Management School).
He holds Masters (triple cum laude) in Thomistic Philosophy (University of Leuven), in Industrial and Monetary Economy (University of Leuven) and in European economy (college of Europe).
Co-founder of EBAN, the European Business Angels Network, founder of FREE (the Foundation for the Research on Education and Entrepreneurship), founder of Growth Academy for Enterprises, European Chair of the WBAF (World Business Angel Forum) and Vice-President of the WCSA (World Complexity Science Academy) and co-founder of SID (www.sidnetwork.eu).
Besides, he is columnist (FD Magazine, Made In, CXO and Trends) and author of several books (40+) and papers (500+) on corporate finance, ethics, politics and economics. He published in Journals such as Small Business economics, Journal of Entrepreneurial Culture, Venture Capital & Ekonomiaz. His handbooks 'Financial Management in Practice' (third edition, 2023) and ‘Entrepreneurship, no guts, no glory’ (fourth edition, 2024), both published by Intersentia Cambridge) are widely used both in academic and business world. He expressed his vision on the future of Belgium is his book: ‘Corona crisis: an electroshock for Belgium?’ (in French & Dutch) and on Europe is his book ‘Europe: Towards a new impetus post-Brexit’ (2023).
He received several awards such as the price for democracy Aron-Condorcet, the price for political mood Belgium, architect of the best regional entrepreneurship plan Europe and the WBAIF world-award for advancing the agenda for Business Angels worldwide.