He is also a member of the New York bar, a former attorney-at-law at the Brussels bar and a board member of Transparency International Belgium.

Michael specializes in ethics, legal and regulatory compliance, with a particular emphasis on financial and economic sanctions – and on financial crime prevention compliance and white collar crime generally.

He regularly speaks at conferences and trainings and regularly publishes in specialised press, law journals and manuscripts in Europe.

Michael was also a lecturer in the Tax Management Executive Master Program at Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, in the UCLouvain-ULB-ULiège interuniversity Certificate in White Collar Crime and in the UCLouvain-USL-B Certificate in (Re)inventing Your Compliance Programme.

Among other scientific activities, Michael has acted as editorial co-director of the Business Criminal Law Manuals and a member of the editorial board of several law reviews (including the Belgian Criminal Law and Criminology Review, the Belgian Business Criminal Law Review and the European Journal on Compliance and Integrity).

He is also a member of the CRID&P, CRIDES (UCLouvain) University research groups and a PhD candidate in Law at Université catholique de Louvain.

Having passed through KBC ‘s Legal Department, Credit Department, abroad and in KBC’s subsidiaries, Marie has been dealing with sanctions and embargoes at KBC Group level since 2018. Her responsibilities as Head of KBC Group’s Embargo Team consist of policy making, Group steering, trainings, setting up of controls, managing incidents and liaising with both KBC’s Shared Services Center – where part of the embargo operations are executed – and its subsidiaries worldwide, in order to install a unified approach in terms of sanctions and embargo screening.

Her biggest challenges consist of staying on top of all evolutions in this fast-pacing landscape and getting them implemented timely and groupwide.