Noël Slangen (1965) is best known as our country's best-known communications consultant. However, he said goodbye to that job in 2012 with the sale of his communication companies. Nowadays, he is an opinion maker and columnist, such as weekly in Het Laatste Nieuws and Het Belang van Limburg. Out of love for his home province of Limburg, he became general director of POM Limburg, the organization responsible for the province's economic development, in 2020. Born into a fourth-world family himself, Noël Slangen is deeply concerned with rising child poverty. He recently succeeded child psychiatrist Peter Adriaenssens as chairman of the King Baudouin Foundation's Child Poverty Fund. He is also a board member of Hart voor Limburg.
