Bart Van de Vel is an accomplished and driven business leader with extensive experience in advertising, digital transformation, and brand marketing for global markets. He’s an urgent optimist who feels authentically hopeful about the future and works to create positive societal change.

As a Global Program Manager at Meta, he gravitated toward making digital platforms more accessible in emerging markets. Having joined in 2013, Bart has been with the company longer than 98 percent of his colleagues. After four years at the company’s international headquarters in Dublin, Bart moved to Dubai, where he served as Head of Beauty & Luxury, before transferring to Miami, where he currently resides. Bart is also a Fuel Ambassador at Meta, where he supports a work-life integration program aimed at sustainability and high performance.

And he is actively engaged in the Mixed@Meta steering committee, a multicultural community within Meta that welcomes people of mixed ancestry who identify culturally and socially with various groups. Bart is currently enrolled as a doctoral candidate in Business Administration at the Paris School of Business.

He graduated with great distinction from HEC Paris, holding a Master of Science degree in Innovation and Entrepreneurship. In addition, Bart obtained mini-MBAs in Marketing and Brand Management, completed the Neuroscience and Neuromarketing program at Copenhagen Business School, and is a certified foresight practitioner. When not glued to a mobile screen, Bart travels the world & the seven seas, learns about wine, is an Italo disco fanboy, and enjoys exploring underwater worlds as an advanced open water diver.