Anne Leclercq

Background

Anne Leclercq has been an independent non-executive director at WDP since April 2015. She obtained a degree in law at the Catholic University of Leuven and an MBA at the Vlerick Business School. She has also taken supplementary courses at the Kellogg School of Management and the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership.

She started her career in the banking sector, where she was Director of Tresorerie between 1980 and 1998, responsible for the Tresorerie, Trading Books and Investment Portfolio. She worked at the Belgian Debt Agency from 1998 to 2019. In 2008, she became the Director of Treasury and Capital Markets. In this role, she defined the financing policy for the Belgian national debt and the organisation of secondary markets. She was also chair of the Market Committee, responsible for the implementation of financing within the risk framework. These positions contributed to gaining extensive knowledge and experience in enterprise risk management. In addition, she has completed a variety of assignments in supranational institutions such as the IMF, the World Bank and the OECD.

Her general management experience, extensive knowledge and expertise regarding financial markets and risk based, efficient financial management (debt capital markets), provide substantial added value to the financing policy of WDP.