Driek Desmet

Driek Desmet is currently a Board Member of Nexford University, as well as, an Independent Advisor to a range of technology start-ups across industries, in Europe, Asia, and Africa. He was a Senior Partner at McKinsey & Company, focusing on strategic change and IT transformation for leading companies and governments across industries.

Driek has worked in Europe, the US, Africa, and Asia, where he spent 5 years running McKinsey’s Business Technology Office for the region. Driek’s deep interest is in forward-thinking on where the world is going as a result of technological change. He studied in Belgium, France, and the US, after which he worked at Procter & Gamble in marketing for a few years, getting to understand how we as humans really make decisions.