As a Senior Advisor in H+K Brussels, Katia works across a broad range of businesses in corporate communications, crisis & issues management, and brand and consumer marketing. Her specialist skills include strategy development for corporate and marcoms campaigns for the pharmaceutical, food, health and retail industries. ​She has 20 years of experience as a communications specialist in the FMCG, pharmaceutical and lifestyle industries, and enjoys an extensive network of third-party endorsers, including major key opinion leaders, authorities and stakeholders. She also contributes pro-bono work to Constellations, an association that cares for disabled adults, as well as patient associations. ​

Katia spent several years in-house with Nestlé in Brussels, which gave her a unique client perspective into the demands and pressures of the FMCG environment, before which she worked in Belgian PR and event/advertising agencies. She is a graduate in communications from the Université libre de Bruxelles and holds a postgraduate in European Communications, is active at the Association Belge des Conseils en Relations Publiques, and gives lectures at various communication schools and universities. A native Belgian, Katia’s mother tongue is French and she is fluent in Dutch and English.