BIO ISABELLE VAN TOMME
Isabelle Van Tomme is a lecturer and Senior Course Tutor at the Faculty of Communication Management in Howest university college, Kortrijk, Belgium. She holds a MA in applied linguistics (Spanish-English) and a BA in Commercial Organisation and marketing. Academically she focuses on various fields such as English, intercultural communication and sales-marketing.
She is also acting as international relations officer for the faculty of Communication Management.
Prior to full-time lecturing Isabelle worked as a sales consultant and sales communication manager for the advertising department of Corelio ( now Mediahuis) one of the biggest media concerns in Flanders. This position allowed her to experience various aspects of the advertising world advertising (agency/advertiser/media).
Board member of The European Association of Communications Agencies ( EACA) , together with the founding academic partners, has set up the European Institute for Commercial Communications Education (edcom). The institute strives to promote excellence in commercial communications education and research and to further exchanges between the European commercial communications sector and academic partners. (www.eacaeducation.eu )