Roger Jean Claessens, founder of R.J. Claessens & Partners is an International lecturer and Independent Consultant for the financial services industry in marketing, planning, economics, wealth management, prevention of money laundering and branch management, especially for the central and commercial banks.

Currently, he serves also as a Professor at UBI (United Business Institutes, Brussels-BBA) and as an expert lecturer for FEBELFIN (Federation of banks and insurance companies in Belgium), the Banking and Finance Academy of Frankfurt and a senior consultant for A.T.T.F (the Luxemburg Agency for Financial Technological Transfer).

R.J. Claessens is a specialized trainer who has delivered more than 500 training courses/seminars/workshops in Europe, Asia and Africa. He lectures for banking professionals in several countries with extensive experience in course design and implementation.

Some of his key qualifications are as Former Marketing Manager for the Netherlands at Credit Lyonnais Bank Nederland and former head of marketing for North Africa for Bank of America.

R.J. Claessens is a sought after speaker in numerous presentations, conferences and training in more than 30 countries. He is highly experienced in designing and delivering training courses especially in the MENA countries.

He has authored several books in the financial sector covering from Marketing of Financial Services, Ethics, Corporate values and Money laundering, Bank Branch Management and Banking Economics.

His latest book “What is a bank? – Linking all key banking functions” has been published with Promoculture, Luxembourg and Authorhouse, UK, published in Serbia under the title “Banking in a modern world”, translated into Russian.