Dr. Lieve Fransen is since 2015 a senior social and health policy advisor with a range of different institutions, businesses and think thanks.
She is medical doctor specialized in global public health and social policies worldwide. She has a PhD in social policies from Antwerp and is the author of many scientific and policy publications.
Dr Fransen  is a well-recognized policy maker at senior management /director level in the EU in different departments of the European Commission fi in Development, Trade and External relations, Communication and Political Reporting and Social affairs and Employment in the European Commission. She was the director for Social Policy and the European strategy for 2020 and the European semester in the European Commission until May 2015 and launched the Social Investment Package and investing in children recommendation in 2013.