Romain has joined Ashoka Belgium in September 2022. After focusing on animating the local community, he became Country Director, managing fundraising and partnership efforts for the country office and the new Participation Hub (with a focus on democracy). In parallel, he continues to develop his side project, ‘What Now Media’, an online media platform that puts the spotlight on changemakers across Europe. Previously, he worked for 8 years on international cooperation and migration governance with NGOs, European institutions and international organisations. He is Belgian, speaks French and English, and is working on improving his Dutch!