Thomas Castrel is Economic and Trade Counsellor for the Flemish region at the Belgian embassy and Head of Office at the Baltics office of Flanders Investment and Trade (FIT). FIT is the external governmental agency of the government of Flanders, Belgium, dealing with export promotion and investment attraction. Previously, Thomas worked as Deputy Director Inward Investment at the head office of FIT in Brussels where he travelled mainly in Europe to promote Flanders as a prime business location. Thomas has previous experience as export sales manager in the Baltic & CEE region. He speaks fluent Russian and Polish and holds a MA Slavonic Studies and Eastern European Sciences obtained at the KULeuven, Belgium. Furthermore, he studied at Warsaw University, Poland, and Vilnius University, Lithuania. Thomas also obtained a MA Management at the Leuven School of Business and Economics and an Advanced MA International Relations and Diplomacy at the University of Antwerp.
Thomas likes to read about history and enjoys his weekly runs.