Serge Stroobants
Serge Stroobants is a former Belgian Army Officer. He is the Director for Europe and the Middle East and North Africa at the Institute for Economics and Peace as well as the founder and current CEO of BANTS Consulting.
Early life and education
Serge Stroobants was born on December 21, 1969, in Brussels, Belgium. He began his education at Collège Roi Baudouin in Brussels, and joined the Royal Military Academy in 1988, where he graduated five years later (1993) with a Master’s Degree in Social Military Sciences. In 2004 he continued his education in Political Sciences at the Free University of Brussels (VUB), and from 2008 to 2010 he attended the German Advanced General Staff Course at the Bundeswehr Command and Staff College. In 2011 he furthered his education with a master’s degree in International Relations at Jean Moulin University Lyon 3, and in 2015 with a certificate in Global Risk Analysis and Crisis Management at Vesalius College, Brussels[2][3].
Career
Military career
Serge Stroobants served from 1988 until 2021 with the Belgian Army, reaching the rank of Lieutenant - Colonel (GS). He started his career in Germany, as a supply and transportation officer for several Belgian military units and the NATO Headquarters for Land Forces in Central Europe in Heidelberg. Back in Belgium, he took over company command, and then became the military assistant to the General Commanding the Operational Command of the Belgian Army. Eventually, he also performed this role for the Belgian Military Representative to the NATO Military Committee. He continued his career as a deployment officer for the Franco-German Brigade which he deployed to the Cape Verdean Islands under the framework of the NATO Response Force. After finishing all stages of the continued military education, he was a logistics staff officer at the Eurocorps Headquarters in Strasbourg. He concluded his military career back at his alma mater (Royal Military Academy) as professor in World Politics. During his military career, Serge Stroobants deployed for a period of more than three years to several theatres of operation.
Academic career
In 2013, Serge Stroobants became a senior lecturer at the chair of World Politics at the Belgian Royal Military Academy. He taught within the department of conflict studies, where he was responsible for the module specializing in Defense and Security Studies for the advanced staff course in the framework of the Belgian Defense College. In 2014, Serge Stroobants became a visiting professor of International Relations specializing in both peace and security and global terrorism and radicalization at Vesalius College[4], and took over the same role in 2017 at the Riga Graduate School of Law. In 2019, he further became a visiting professor at the Blanquerna Foundation of the University Ramon Llull in Barcelona, Spain[5]. In 2018, Serge Stroobants became a senior visiting fellow at the Irish College of the KU Leuven and the Global Governance Institute. He is a senior associate at the European Institute for Asian Studies[6] and the Global Institute for Cybersecurity Technologies.[4][7]
Business career
In 2014, Serge Stroobants started to support and represent the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) in Europe. In 2018, he formed the institute's Brussels office, and he is its current Director for Europe, the Middle East and Northern Africa. He is regularly invited by news outlets to provide his insights on ongoing events and trending topics such as terrorism[8][9][10][11][12][13][14], as well as presenting the reports and services provided by the Institute for Economics and Peace [15][16][17][18][19]
In 2015, Serge Stroobants started providing consultancy with a focus on international security with the creation of SEKUR Consulting BV. Between 2015 and 2018, SEKUR provided capacity-building services under Stroobants’ leadership. In 2018, Stroobants founded BANTS Consulting[1], thereby fully professionalizing his consultancy services. Since 2018, Serge Stroobants has been the Executive Director of BANTS Consulting where he leads the efforts of providing organizations with strategic security and risk management services.
Honors and awards
Serge Stroobants was awarded with multiple Belgian honorary distinctions (File:Commander Ordre de Leopold.png Order of Leopold (Belgium), File:BEL Kroonorde Commandeur BAR.svg Order of the Crown (Belgium), File:BEL Militair Kruis 1klasse BAR.svg Military Cross (Belgium) and File:BEL Comm Medal for Foreign Missions or Operations.png Commemorative Medal for Foreign Operations or Missions) as well as the .svg){kind=small}
NATO Operations medal, and a File:GER Bundeswehr Honour Cross Silver ribbon.svg Silver Cross of Honour of the Bundeswehr.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "BANTS Consulting | Strategic Security". BANTS Consulting.
- ↑ "Serge Stroobants, Director of Operations for Europe & MENA of the Institute for Economics and Peace team., Assistant-Professor at Vesalius College in Brussels, Belgian".
- ↑ "Stroobants | Normandy for Peace".
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 https://eias.org/team/serge-stroobants/
- ↑ "Areion24.news".
- ↑ https://eias.org/
- ↑ https://nl.linkedin.com/company/gict
- ↑ "BBC Radio 4 - Best of Today, What is the root of radicalism in Molenbeek?".
- ↑ "L'État islamique post-califat : Sans État mais pas sans moyens".
- ↑ "Terrorism is costing the global economy $34 billion a year, research says". CNBC. 16 January 2020.
- ↑ "Perspective - Ecological Threat Report warns of 'intimate relationship between degradation and conflict'". 7 October 2021.
- ↑ Smith, Oliver (10 June 2020). "Austria to welcome tourists from 20 countries – not including Britain". The Telegraph.
- ↑ "Coronavirus Prompts Fall in Terrorist Activity, but Effect Could be Shortlived". Forbes.
- ↑ "US: Post-Trump vision for the Maghreb". 9 November 2020.
- ↑ "Iceland tops the charts for most peaceful country in the world". 12 June 2019.
- ↑ "Studie: Weniger Terrorismus - außer von rechts". 25 November 2020.
- ↑ ""No se está dando la ayuda a los países adecuados para hacer frente a los riesgos ecológicos"". October 2020.
- ↑ "Serge Stroobants, Director of Operations for Europe, the Middle East and North Africa". YouTube.
- ↑ "GCSP Video | Global Terrorism Index 2019: Mr Serge Stroobants".
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