As Aedifica’s Country Manager for Belgium, Stéphanie Lomme is responsible for the operational activities of the Belgian branch of Aedifica. After obtaining a master’s degree in economic sciences from KU Leuven, Stéphanie Lomme began her career as an international corporate banker in both Doha (Qatar) and Brisbane (Australia). She then gained 10 years of experience in real estate and corporate structuring as well as financing at KBC Bank. After being appointed as Senior Banker, responsible for the bank’s largest publicly listed clients, she decided to follow her passion for real estate and care. In her role as Country Manager Belgium, Stéphanie Lomme, together with her team, is responsible for maintaining and creating value for the Belgian branch of Aedifica.

Joost Uwents has been a director since 2002 and executive director and CEO since 2010. He is a commercial engineer and holds an MBA. His banking background gives him strong knowledge of real estate and finance. Before his appointment as CEO, he was CFO of WDP for ten years. Over the years, he has built up expertise in the logistics and supply chain sector. Together with his drive for innovation, his expertise contributes to the expansion of WDP’s sustainable strategy.

Mr. Van Rillaer holds a degree in Civil Engineering (UCL) and a Master of Science in Hydraulic Engineering (Newcastle upon Tyne). He began his career internationally in the civil engineering sector with Besix (India), Dredging International (Nigeria), TPF-SEGES (Vietnam), and Jan de Nul (Mauritius, USA, Panama). He then served as Chief Operating Officer of the public-private partnership department at the CFE Group before joining Inclusio in 2016, where he initially held the position of Chief Development Officer (from 2020 to July 2023). He has been serving as Chief Executive Officer since August 1, 2023.

Nicolas Rosiers is Deputy Chief Executive Officer of Wereldhave Belgium since 20 July 2023. Nicolas has more than 20 years of experience in the retail real estate sector and has been active within Wereldhave Belgium since 2011. Nicolas is also Director of the Belgium Luxembourg Council of Shopping en Retail Centers (BLSC). From 2015 to the end of 2023, he was also Chairman of the Legal Commission / Retail Commission of the BLSC and of the Union Professionnelle du Secteur Immobilier (UPSI). In addition to his Law Degree (UCL) and a Degree in Business Economics (VLEKHO - KULeuven Campus Brussel), Nicolas Rosiers also holds an Executive Master in Real Estate from Solvay Brussels School and an Executive Master in Management from Vlerick Business School.

Michel Van Geyte holds a master’s degree in applied economics and a postgraduate degree in real estate studies from KU Leuven and a master’s degree in corporate finance from Vlerick Business School. Michel Van Geyte has worked for Leasinvest (which later became Nextensa) since August 2004. First as commercial manager (COO) and since 2018 as CEO, following the retirement of the former CEO. He has more than 20 years of experience in real estate. Since 2009, M. Van Geyte also teaches several courses related to real estate, at the KU Leuven. He has been chairman of the ULI Belgium & Luxembourg National Council since 1 July 2023.

Stéphan de Faÿ, 49, has been the CEO of Grand Paris Aménagement, a public development and land operator active in around 100 projects, primarily in Île-de-France, since November 27, 2020. He previously held the same position at the EPA Bordeaux Euratlantique from 2014. An Engineer General of the French Army, Stéphan de Faÿ graduated from the École Polytechnique and the École Nationale Supérieure des Techniques Avancées (ENSTA). He also studied under the French philosopher and academician René Girard at Stanford University in 1999. He began his career in 2001 at the Direction des Chantiers Navals (DCN, now Naval Group), before joining the Délégation Générale pour l’Armement (DGA) in 2003. In 2005, he transitioned to the Interministerial Directorate for Economic Transformations, working on economic revitalization projects for regions and industrial crisis management. He then returned to the DGA until 2008, where he handled NATO-related issues. From 2008 to 2011, Stéphan de Faÿ worked for Christian Blanc, the then Secretary of State for the development of the Capital Region, where he helped design the architecture for a new Grand Paris. He continued his mission as Deputy Director of Cabinet for Michel Mercier, Minister of Rural Areas and Spatial Planning, and later for Maurice Leroy, Minister of the City in charge of Grand Paris. In this role, he was Head of the Grand Paris unit and contributed to the historic agreement of January 26, 2011, between the State and the Île-de-France Region, unifying the routes of the automatic metro and giving rise to the Grand Paris Express. From 2011 to 2014, he served at the Établissement Public d’Aménagement de la Défense Seine Arche (EPADESA) as Deputy Director-General for Administration and Finance. Stéphan de Faÿ has been a member of the Steering Committee of the Urban Land Institute (ULI) France since 2013 and has served as ULI's Global Governing Trustee for Europe since 2021. He sits on the boards of several companies and organizations, including the Société du Grand Paris, the Écoles Nationales Supérieures d’Architecture in Paris Malaquais and Versailles, and the economic development agency for the Île-de-France Region, Choose Paris Region. Since 2015, he has chaired Cré’Atlantique, a cultural endowment fund that has raised over 3 million euros to support cultural initiatives alongside development projects led by the EPA Bordeaux Euratlantique. Since 2021, in collaboration with several public and private stakeholders, including the Conseil National de l’Ordre des Architectes (CNOA), he has spearheaded the structuring of the French off-site construction sector and has chaired the corresponding association since its inception in 2023. He also launched a collective action within the Université de la Ville de Demain (UVD) in 2023 to form a land alliance with and for medium-sized cities. The first such agreement was signed between the cities of Aubervilliers and Saint-Dizier during the UVD summit in late May 2024. Finally, Stéphan de Faÿ received the Urbanism Medal from the French Academy of Architecture in 2022 and was named Man of the Year 2021 by Innovapresse as part of its publication The 100 Who Shape the City.

I am a strategy office and urban planner at www.orgpermod.com ORG Permanent Modernity is an international company with offices in New York, Brussels and Anwerp. ORG drives transformative projects to address today's challenges. We engage multidisciplinary teams to provide spatial analytics, design and planning and process to implementation management. Our involvement begins at the research stage and continues on through to implementation, ensuring the development of intelligent, well-supported and successful programs. Our work establishes innovation through sophisticated and state-of-the-art practices combined with collaboration; curating the insights of stakeholders to make projects the best they can be and get them built. Since 2006 I have managed multiple interdisciplinary teams of architects, economists, engineers, landscape architects, ecologists, mobility, transportation and historic preservation experts on complex development projects in a variety of contexts and geographies. As an urban planner, I worked on many large-scale strategic regional and urban planning with a strong focus on environmental resilience. I manage multi-stakeholder participatory processes and provide expert planning consulting to private and public clients. In addition to professional practice, I am founding faculty member at two new graduate schools of architecture for which I developed educational curriculum in urbanism and humanities. I have over ten years of teaching experience in the history and theory of urban form, urban design studio and urban studies. I taught at NYIT, and the Amsterdam Academy of Architecture. I graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where I earned a professional degree in Urban Planning (MCP) and a post-graduate degree in architectural research (SMArchS). Before entering MIT, I received a Master of Urban Design from the City College of New York and an undergraduate degree in environmental design from Parson's School of Design. In addition, I earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology at The New School for Social Research, and spent one year at Columbia University New York/Paris program, and participated in the seminars at Berlage Institute in the Netherlands. After graduate school I spent nearly a decade working in top European design firms, West 8, KCAP and Felixx Landscape Architects and Planners in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

As chief executive of ULI Europe, Lisette van Doorn is responsible for the development of the Institute’s activities across the region, including its renowned pan-European conferences and over 250 local meetings and events across 14 countries. She is responsible for working with ULI’s staff both locally and globally to deliver more high-profile content and reports; coordinating Advisory Services panels and Urban Plan; and expanding the Institute’s thought leadership across Europe. Van Doorn joined ULI in January 2015 from LIRE, her own consultancy business, which advises international institutional real estate investors and fund managers on strategy, organisational optimisation and portfolio structuring. Prior to this, van Doorn was country manager for CBRE Global Investors where she managed a €1.6bn portfolio of assets in Italy and fund manager of two shopping centre funds (€ 1.3 billion) with assets in Spain, Portugal, and Italy. Before joining CBRE Global Investors, van Doorn was founding chief executive for INREV, the European association for Investors in Non-Listed Real Estate Vehicles for four and a half years. Van Doorn started her career at ING Investment Management, where she held account manager and assistant controller positions before being made managing director of research & strategy for ING Real Estate Investment Management Europe.