The new faces of philanthropy: the rebels

Myriam Vander Elst is Chief Engagement Officer at EPIC, a global foundation that reinvents philanthropy to empower and protect children, youth, and our planet. Bridging the gap between donors and nonprofits, Epic is reinstating trust, transparency and impact through a rigorous selection and monitoring process to make giving the norm. Having impact is what Myriam seeks to achieve every day, with determination, conscientiously, by investing her time, energy, strength of conviction and commitment. If she succeeds so well, it is surely because she is inhabited, as she says, by the meaning of her action, by the real and imperative stake.

Mother of three, Anne-Sophie Eymeoud has been active in the financial world for over twenty years. She is Managing Director of the Belgian branch of Rothschild & Co Wealth Management, with group responsibilities in ESG, philanthropy, and the firm’s diversity, equity, and inclusion programme. Client relationships and wealth transmission remain at the heart of her work. She is passionate about developing and supporting clients within a team, combining an entrepreneurial and collective spirit with a strong performance focus. Anne-Sophie fosters safe working environments that nurture talent, strengthen human capital engagement, and boost creativity and team cohesion, driving impactful and enjoyable collective performance. Deeply involved in philanthropy from an early age, she builds bridges between the business and philanthropic worlds through thematic workshops, charitable activities with various foundations, and the launch of the “Voices For Philanthropy” podcast.