2023-10-06 16:58:00
The former spokesperson for Test-Aankoop (the first editions of which in Dutch appeared in 1960) joined the European consumer defense umbrella Euroconsumers in 2013. He was even its CEO for seven years. He left the organization last June before being approached to lead the League of Families in Flanders.
Born in Deurne, a lawyer by training, Ivo Mechels first worked at Cepess, the design office of the Flemish CVP party, the former name of the CD&V. His first boss there was Herman Van Rompuy. He was then the spokesperson for ministers Leo Delcroix and Karel Pinxten before joining Test-Achats in 1995. Ivo Mechels always felt like a fish in water in the social economy sector. This hard worker (12 to 14 hours a day) has four grandchildren whom he takes care of from time to time. A true centipede, supporter and member of Amnesty International since the age of 16, Ivo Mechels has taught family sciences at a higher school in Schaerbeek and at the University of Antwerp for 25 years.
The new boss of the League of Families in Flanders will have a busy 2024, with the elections in his sights. He wants the Gezinsbond, which employs 127 employees and ten thousand volunteers, to be more active in political circles and more present in the media. Around 130,000 families are today affiliated with the League of Families.
Columnist, winner in 2009 of the Karel Van Noppen Prize (named following the government livestock inspector murdered in 1995), Ivo Mechels says he will work at least two days and perhaps more as president of the League of Flemish Families. He wishes to continue “to commit to building a more united society” and wants to “contribute to the fight once morest extreme poverty”.
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