Belgium/RBFA: Pascale Van Damme named first ever female president & succeeds Paul Van den Bulck

Belgian Pascale Van Damme (54), vice president EMEA at VMware, a subsidiary of Dell (technology solutions), and member of the board of directors of Agoria (Belgian Federation for the Technology Industry), has been unanimously elected president of the Royal Belgian Football Association by the board of directors and thus becomes the first woman to hold this position in 128 years, announced the RBFA on 22/05/2023.

Pascale Van Damme has been a member of the RBFA board since 05/06/2021 and succeeds Paul Van den Bulck, who was elected in June 2022 before resigning on 19/05/2023. "The RBFA board acknowledges the resignation of its independent president, Paul Van den Bulck. It accepts this resignation as director and president. The board thanks the president for his work. It particularly respects his decision, which is in line with the external control role that he was responsible for ensuring. The board also expressed its gratitude to him for the mandate as a member of the UEFA strategic committee, which he had obtained in favour of the RBFA," said the body.

"Thanks to her experience as a…