Mimi Lamote is a Belgian

Belgium

Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...

 businesswoman. Since December 2006, she is the Chair of the Flemish Socio-economic Forum of Flanders in Action

Flanders in Action

Flanders in Action is a social and economic action programme for Flanders which was established by the Flemish government on 11 July 2006. Baron Paul Buysse, is chairman of the board of directors...

 of the Flemish government

Flemish government

The Flemish Government is the executive branch of the Flemish Community and the Flemish Region. It consists of up to a maximum of eleven ministers, chosen by the Flemish Parliament...

. She is a member of the board of Belgacom

Belgacom

The Belgacom Group is the largest telecommunications company in Belgium, headquartered in Brussels. Belgacom Group is primarily state owned, with the Belgian state holding 53.3% + 1 share...

. Mimi Lamote is married with Peter Otten and lives in Tielrode.

Education

She obtained a master in economics

Economics

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 at the University of Antwerp

University of Antwerp

The University of Antwerp is one of the major Belgian universities located in the city of Antwerp. The name is sometimes abbreviated as UA.-History:...

 and a master in Retail Management at the Tias University

Universiteit van Tilburg

Tilburg University is an academic institution of higher education, specialising in the social sciences and law, located in Tilburg in the southern part of the Netherlands....

 of Tilburg

Tilburg

Tilburg is a landlocked municipality and a city in the Netherlands, located in the southern province of Noord-Brabant.Tilburg municipality also includes the villages of Berkel-Enschot and Udenhout....

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Career

From 2001 until 2005, she was General Manager of the C&A Belgium-Luxemburg

C&A

C&A is an international chain of fashion retail clothing stores, with its European head offices in Vilvoorde , Belgium and Düsseldorf, Germany...

 company of the Brenninkmeijer family

Brenninkmeijer family

Brenninkmeijer is a German-Dutch family. Two members of the Brenninkmeijer family founded C&A, an international chain of clothing stores.- History :...

. From 2001 until 2004, she was a member of the board of the Federation of Belgian Enterprises

Federation of Belgian Enterprises

The Federation of Enterprises in Belgium is the only Belgian non-profit organization representing companies in all three regions of Belgium. Its members, the different Belgian sectorial employers' organizations, represent companies in key industrial and service sectors. All in all, it represents...

 (VBO) and a member of the board of Fedis

Fedis

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. From January 2005 to June 2006, she succeeded Etienne Kaesteker as CEO of the SCF retail group comprising E5-mode and Sportorama (Sint Niklaas (Belgium)) and ECG UAB/E5-Mode Baltic UAB/ Edvalda UAB (Kaunas

Kaunas

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 (Lithuania

Lithuania

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)). Since 1 February 2007, she is a member of the management team of ZiekenhuisNetwerk Antwerpen (ZNA), an Antwerp hospital group. She is Managing Director of Eugenius BVBA.

On 2 November 2009 she starts as vice-president of Pearle Europe

Pearle Opticians

Pearle Optical was founded by Stanley Pearle, an optometrist in Savannah, Georgia, USA in 1961. He also founded Pearle Vision in the same year. The company's European division, Pearle Europe, is now owned by the Dutch firm HAL Investments, also the parent company of Atasun Optik, Lensmaster and...

, working at its headquarters in Amsterdam

Amsterdam

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