Mr. Winand L.E. Quaedvlieg Head Brussels Office Confederation of Netherlands Industry and Employers VNO-NCW (Netherlands) and Permanent Delegate VNO-NCW at BUSINESSEUROPE Chair of BIAC Investment Committee Winand Quaedvlieg is Head of the Brussels Office of VNO-NCW and responsible for the overall EU lobby of VNO-NCW. Before he was Deputy Director International Economic Affairs in VNO-NCW and responsible for international trade and investment policy and international corporate social responsibility. He has been Chair of BIAC’s Investment Committee since 2012. He is also a former Vice Chair of the BUSINESSEUROPE International Relations Committee. He was a member of the Commission on European Integration (CEI) of the Advisory Council on International Affairs (AIV) of the Netherlands' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and lecturer on EU External Economic Policy, Master Programme European Union Studies of Leiden University. He studied Dutch and European law in Nijmegen (NL) and Nancy (FR). He was nominated Officer in the French Ordre National du Mérite in 2011.