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Our Leadership

The ILE is led by a steering committee in which faculty members as well as community members contribute:

  • This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it (Ph.D.) is professor of Christian Ethics and Rector of the ETF. An important focus of his research is on the ethics of leadership in the context of corporate social responsibility. He speaks regularly in churches and at international conferences.
  • This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it is Finance Director of the ETF and studied Business Economics at the University of Groningen (Netherlands). He worked in various management positions in banking before coming to the ETF, where he became co-founder of ILE. He serves as elder in a local congregation and speaks regularly on economics and Christian ethics.
  • This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it (Ph.D.) is assistant professor of Practical Theology, and serves as secretary of ILE. He served as a church planter in the Netherlands before coming to the ETF, where he completed a dissertation on emerging leadership in Pauline churches (2010). He engages in research on social identity and leadership and preaches regularly in churches in Belgium and the Netherlands.
  • This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it  is a former Vice President of Procter & Gamble who now runs his own management consulting and executive coaching company, Start Development bvba, based in Belgium. Clients include a mix of international business and non-profit organizations. Chris is a visiting lecturer on management practice at the Louvain School of Management and also at the ETF. He is a member of St Paul’s Anglican Church in Tervuren (Belgium) and is co-founder of ILE.
  • This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it is a former Director of Global R&D for Procter & Gamble. He is a member of St. Paul’s Anglican Church in Tervuren (Belgium) and is co-founder of ILE.
  • This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it (Ph.D.) has a wide experience in different industries: he has been leading strategic change projects in an international banking context, in government, in manufacturing, in telecom, and in logistics. He is currently Vice President Customer Advisory and EMEA Head of Innovation at SAP. He is author of three books, is a frequently invited speaker at international conferences, and lectures at several universities. He holds a PhD in Applied Sciences, a Masters in Electrical Engineering, followed the Advanced Management Program at IMD (Switzerland), and has been nominated Fellow of the University of Leuven (Belgium). Peter is conducting research on continuous business innovation – how companies can build structural capabilities that will allow them to become innovation leaders.
 

Our Ph.D. Students

The research of several Ph.D. students is connected to the work of ILE. Their areas of research are as follows:

  • Steven van den Heuvel (Dutch): The Relevance of Bonhoeffer’s Theology for Ecological Concerns.
  • Kurt Igler (Austrian): Helmut Thielicke as a Public Theologian.
  • Johan Serré (Belgian): Free Market Economy and the Christian Idea of Freedom.
  • Ron van der Spoel (Dutch) (joint degree with VU Amsterdam): The Influence of Persecution on People's Perception of Leadership in Pakistan.
  • Two other students are in the early phases of research into ethics and public theology.