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Dirk De Corte
Senior Associate - Executive Learning Partnership
Belgium

Dirk De Corte holds a degree in English language and literature from the University of Gent, Belgium. He completed a fourteen year long career in international banking with financial institutions such as BNP and ING. At ING, in his capacity as Director Structured Finance, Dirk was involved in various structured finance transactions with major international corporations. He co-organised several strategic off sites concerning ING’s structured tax lease businesses.
After his stay in banking, Dirk moved into the arts world, taking the position as Managing Director of NTGent, one of the larger professional theatres in Belgium, which he successfully transformed into a vibrant art house respected all over the international performing arts scene. In his capacity as vice-chairman of the Employers’ Association of the Flemish Performing Arts, he successfully negotiated several collective labour agreements. He helped this professional arts organisation in redefining its own mission statement and was facilitator at brain storming sessions concerning the role of the state in the arts and change management in arts companies.
Dirk left the arts world to become Senior Associate to Executive Learning Partnership (www.elpnetwork.com), an international and committed network of experienced executive development professionals. With ELP, he is involved in designing, organising and delivering customised ‘action learning’ programmes, aimed at the development of strategy and leadership in large corporations. He combines this engagement with his associate professorship at the University of Antwerp, where teaches culture management.
Dirk was a freelance radio reporter for more than ten years for Belgian national radio, where he gave live commentary on soccer games. He was Board Member of the International Amateur Theatre Association, an NGO patronized by the Monegasque royal family, where he successfully completed a management change programme. This granted him the Knight’s Medal of Supreme Cultural Merit of the Principality of Monaco.
Presently, he holds a number of board mandates in profit as well as not for profit companies.
Dirk is married to Anne, they have two boys and one girl and live in Belgium.