Board of Directors
Ank De Wilde
Ank De Wilde is the chair of Itinera’s Board. A driven entrepreneur, she has extensive expertise and a track record in sustainable innovation and value creation, for both individuals, businesses, and society. Ank co-founded and served as the CEO of Absolem, a mission-driven high-tech engineering company that she led and successfully scaled, achieving successes through her entrepreneurship and thought leadership. In 2023, she sold her share in the company.
Ank strongly believes in connecting people, organizations, and the environment, challenging traditional paradigms of entrepreneurship, growth, and collaboration. Her experiences with poverty in her youth laid the foundation for her fascination with social systemic thinking, the driving force behind her entrepreneurship and a catalyst for her personal and professional development. She is committed to finding levers for positive growth: collaboration between visible and invisible actors and structures, civil society, and the business sector.
With her commitment to sustainable development, she strengthens Itinera as a board member, positioning it as the leading think tank that encourages policymakers to accelerate the urgent and necessary evolution towards a better Belgium.
Alexander D'Hooghe
Alexander D'Hooghe is the chair of Itinera’s Board. He is an associate professor at MIT and founding partner of ORG Permanent Modernity, a design agency and think tank based in Brussels and New York that operates internationally in the urban planning and architecture space. Alexander has published internationally, notably with 'the Liberal Monument' (Princeton, Fall 2010) and recent papers in journals in Germany, Israel, Spain, the Netherlands, Belgium, the US, etc.
Alexander D'Hooghe is the former director of the MIT Centre For Advanced Urbanism (CAU), which focuses on the large-scale, complex urban issues of our time. D'Hooghe earned his doctorate in 2007 from the Berlage Institute at T.U. Delft. Before that, he earned a Master in Urban Design from Harvard in 2001, and a Master in Architectural Engineering from the University of Leuven in 1996. He has worked with industry leaders like Rem Koolhaas and Marcel Smets.
Siham Rahmuni
Siham is an ambitious young entrepreneur working towards sustainable innovation in every arena. She is guided by her keen sense of social responsibility and inclusion. As a mentor and bridge builder, she inspires those around her to broaden their horizons beyond their own perspective.
Siham graduated with a bachelor's degree in tax accountancy and then started as a financial assistant at a company whose international expansion was in full swing. After just a year, she was named department head, and two years later, she was responsible for the global financial side of the company. After a stopover in France as interim CFO, she joined real estate service provider Quares, where she progressed from financial manager to Finance and HR director and finally CEO. As a member of the Board of Directors, she helps chart the company's strategic course.
Nicolas Saverys
Nicolas Saverys is de uitvoerend voorzitter van EXMAR. Tot april 2020 was hij CEO van EXMAR, een rederij gespecialiseerd in het maritiem transport en de transformatie van LNG, LPG, watervrije ammoniak en petrochemische gassen.
Hij is betrokken bij het familiebedrijf sinds hij in 1980 afstudeerde aan de Universiteit van Gent met een diploma in de Economie. Hij heeft EXMAR van een kleine dochteronderneming van een scheepswerf in de vroege jaren '80 ontwikkeld tot de huidige positie als een van de toonaangevende onafhankelijke gastankerrederijen.
Nicolas Saverys was bijna twintig jaar voorzitter van de Koninklijke Belgische Redersvereniging en toen de drijvende kracht achter de succesvolle heropleving van het Belgische register, wat leidde tot een forgroei van de nationale vloot. Hij is ook voorzitter van het Benelux Comité van Bureau Veritas en directeur van Bexco.
Karel Vinck
Karel Vinck is een éminence grise van onze ondernemerswereld met een carrière bij oa Eternit, Bekaert, Umicore en Sibelco. Hij was een doorwinterd crisismanager als topman van de NMBS, en later voorzitter van de BAM (Oosterweelverbinding).
Karel Vinck is erevoorzitter van VOKA en was tien jaar lang voorzitter van het Vlaamse Adviesraad voor Innoveren en Ondernemen (VARIO). Hij is tevens auteur van Ouverture sur le monde, De weg naar doorbraak en De kracht van een crisis.