Katia Segers

Katia Segers is a professor at the department of Media Studies of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Between 2002 and 2014 she was director of CEMESO, now she is Honorary director of ECHO. Her research and publications focus on children, media and culture, media literacy and on media and cultural policy matters. She is a member of Scientific Committee of the International Association of Arts and Cultural Management (AIMAC). Since 2014 she is a Member of the Flemish Parliament and the Belgian Senate. Before, she was the president of the Flemish Regulator for the Media, president of the Advisory Board to the Minister of Cultural Policy, vice-president of the Commission Cultural Treaty between Flanders and the Netherlands, and a member of the board of the Flemish Opera House and Ballet and the Flemish Expert Commission for Governmental Communication of the Flemish Parliament.