An Lavens

An Lavens is the manager of the BELvue museum in Brussels, a museum on Belgium and its history and a Centre for Democracy. Born in Ostend Belgium, An Lavens studied communication science at the Free University of Brussels and stayed there to work in the SMIT research centre (Studies on Media, Communication and Information Technology). The academic experience was then complemented by a contract for a commercial communication firm, where she worked as an account executive for numerous non-profit organisations. Since 2005 she is employed by the King Baudouin Foundation, first as the communication manager for the BELvue museum and since 2007 as the general manager of the BELvue.