The Draghi report: A wake-up call for Europe?

Claire Munck is CEO at BeAngels, Belgium's largest and most dynamic private investor community. Over the last 25 years, it has enabled 85 million euros + to be channelled into several hundred start-ups. Claire founded and is the Managing Partner of the Scalefunds and previously collaborated with Go Beyond. In 2013, Claire joined the Board of Business Angels Europe where she has the responsibility for Global Strategy. Claire spent close to 10 years with EBAN, the European Trade Association for Business Angels, including five years as managing director. She was part of the founding team of the WBAA – World Business Angels Association and a founding Executive Committee Member of the Global Business Angel Network. Prior to that, Munck was project manager for EURADA – European Association of Regional Development Agencies. She is an alumni of McGill University, the European Communication School and the Free University of Brussels.

Guillaume is an EU policy advisor, focused on agricultural economics, consulting for EU public institutions and private companies. He also founded the AgImpacts Ventures angel syndicate, dedicated to sustainable agtech. Earlier in his career, he worked in various positions in consulting firms such as Ecorys and EY, and the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) in Rome. He has a PhD in Economics and Finance from La Sapienza University, Rome.

Luisa Leroy is the International Business Developer at imec.istart, a well-established business accelerator with a pre-seed fund for (deep-)tech spin-offs and startups. Earlier in her career, she worked as a Technology Transfer Officer in the Big Science market and as a Business Developer in the semiconductor industry. Passionate about shaping the future of digitalization in Europe. Luisa holds a Master’s degree in Innovation, with a multidisciplinary focus on Business, Engineering, and Design, from Sweden.

François-Guillaume is Chief of Staff at Greenomy, a Brussels-based ESG data management platform helping companies leverage EU standards (CSRD, EU Taxonomy, VSME) to accelerate their sustainability transition. A former Brussels Bar attorney with Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, he focused on European and competition law and helped launch a sustainability practice. He also trained at the European Commission and practiced in Buenos Aires. François-Guillaume holds law and business engineering degrees from LSE and KU Leuven. He is a member of the Friday Group, a Belgian policy think tank supported by the King Baudouin Foundation.