Luc Nijs is the founder, chairman and group CEO of The
Talitha Group, a global merchant banking group and global
investment holding. Before that he was with Arthur Andersen and
Deloitte. In addition, Luc provides extensive advisory, executive
coaching and financial training for corporations, investment funds
and financial institutions, and is active in over 160 countries
worldwide on a wide array of strategy, investment and capital
allocation issues.
He has held academic positions in international taxation,
finance and capital markets at UAMS/IPO (Belgium), Instituto de
Empresa (Spain) and most recently the Aizkraukles Banka Chair in
investment banking, private equity and entrepreneurial finance at
the Riga Graduate School of Law (Latvia).
Luc is fluent in Dutch, English, French, German, Portuguese and
Spanish and is competent in Russian and Chinese.
He authored Shaping Tomorrow's Marketplace: Investment
Philosophies for Emerging Markets and a Semi-Globalized World
which was published by Euromoney in 2011, as well as the upcoming
Global Agricultural Markets: Financial Dynamics and Industry
Challenges, Palgrave Macmillan, (2014).