Ms Carole Tompers, Secretary General at Luxembourg for Business
Having started her career as a Marketing and Communication manager in the automotive industry, Ms Tompers currently serves as Secretary General at Luxembourg for Business. Her mission is to insure the promotion of “Made in Luxembourg” products and services in foreign markets.
Ms Tompers works in close cooperation with Luxembourg for Business's founding members (i.e. the Ministry of the Economy and Foreign Trade, The Ministry of Small and Medium-sized Businesses and Tourism, The Chamber of Commerce, the Office du Ducroire, the National Credit and Investment Corporation (SNCI), the Chamber of Crafts and the Luxembourg Business Federation (FEDIL)) to jointly create added value in promotional efforts and to foster competences, leading to the development of avant-garde projects. These projects aim to increase the professionalism of each partner in their support to companies and act as a "trickle down effect" benefiting the internationalisation process of Luxembourg's companies as a whole. Ms Tompers´s mission and projects focus on strategic marketing, which she strives to implement jointly with the Luxembourg network abroad i.e. Luxembourg´s Trade and Investment Offices (LTIOs), Luxembourg´s embassies as well as Luxembourg´s consulates general and bilateral chambers of commerce.
Ms Tompers was educated in Great Britain at the Manchester University Business School, and Manchester Metropolitan University gaining a Master's in International Business and Management, and a Bachelor in Marketing and Management.
Ms. Tompers has superior skills in five languages, both written and oral: French, English, German, Italian and Luxembourgish. She speaks four of these languages when dealing with about 15 different nationals daily.
In her leisure time, Ms Tompers is a passionate runner and photographer.