Patrick Stoop studied law and economics. He has been working for more than 35 years on the intersections of: policy, strategy, management, planning & control, governance, quality assurance, change, capacity building, organisational and/or institutional development, human resources management, public finance, budget cycle, financial management, information management, audit and evaluation. His work cuts across most policy areas and governance issues of the public sector. He has also conducted substantial work for NGO’s; while being increasingly involved in private sector and entrepreneurship development with a specific focus on social businesses.
He gained approximately 15 years’ professional experience in Belgium while the other 20 years’ experience was accumulated in more than 25 countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and MENA countries.
Since 1996 he is working through his own consulting firm, ‘Stoop Consulting’. In 2017 he initiated and co-founded C-lever.org.