Katrien Van der Heyden (Belgium).
She is a sociologist (Masters), psychotherapist and expert in gender, equal opportunities, diversity, with an additional Masters in Gender Studies.
She has almost 20 years of experience, covering field work with rural development projects in Africa, as an independent consultant in the field of gender and diversity, and as a researcher at the University of Antwerp.
Her specialist fields are health, gender analyses, (qualitative) research and strategy (gender mainstreaming at project and institutional levels, strategic planning), training and facilitation of workshops, and management and evaluation of projects.
She is currently in the process of publishing a book about masculinity in the MeToo era in which she has gathered all her knowledge masculinity and gender, gender based violence and sexual violence.

Working languages: Dutch (native speaker), English and French.
kvanderheyden@engender.eu