University
After school, I had a difficult choice to make. I sure had a taste for languages and arts, but my parents being both doctors, we decided Medicine was the most secure direction to go. A few years later however, after the bachelor years at Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), I had a deep thought about my future. I did not want to be a doctor. I wanted to do public relations in English within a multinational organization. First was to have a perfect knowledge in English, and second was to learn public relations. So I got bachelor degree in English and Spanish at the Translator State Institute ISTI, then went back to ULB and graduated with a master degree in Journalism & Communications, in 1990.
An integrated educational background
Lycée Français de Belgique Jean Monnet
I have an excellent souvenir of the French Lycee (Brussels), from 1967 to 1980. Mainly from the last years of my cursus. We were a group of about 20 mates and carried on close together in the section "Mathematics / Physics & Chemistry", until we all got our Baccalaureat C and actually spread away, most of my friends back to France, some of them in the USA. A lot of my school mates are now with me on facebook. We share things together, we have even discussions we never had before. We keep in touch now, though we did not see each other for 30 years. Looking back to the 70ies, guess what it is like to have been enrolled in the peace-and-love era, walking barefoot with our indian carves and bell-bottom blue-jeans.