Dries Vestjens

Dries Vestjens has extensive experience in financial markets, portfolio management, and process coordination, with a career spanning various roles since 2006. At ING, Dries served as a Financial Markets Collateral Management Officer, Senior Portfolio Manager for Real Estate Finance, and Global Counterparty Risk Analyst, managing significant portfolios and conducting credit risk assessments for international clients. Dries also contributed as a Process Coordinator and Portfolio Analyst at Invest International, implementing Salesforce and streamlining project data analysis processes. Dries began the professional journey as a Research Assistant at the Nederlandse School voor Onderwijsmanagement, supporting quantitative and qualitative research efforts. Dries holds a BA in Marketing from Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences and an MSC in Political Science from the University of Amsterdam, along with participation in a summer school program at The London School of Economics and Political Science.