MERK Vincent

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Born in Strasbourg, Vincent Merk is a French citizen residing in The Netherlands since 1981.

His main affiliation is with Eindho­ven University of Technology (TU/e), a leading European institution, where he teaches intercultural business communi­cati­on and management/negotiation in undergraduate, postgraduate, and professional programmes. He also holds a position at Lille Graduate School of Management/ESC Lille and at Université de Lille 3 where he teaches similar topics.

In addition, he has been working as an independent trainer and consultant since 1985, including a two-year project at the Philips headquarters in Eindhoven.

His many assignments have ranged from training on “Négociation et culture française” to training and consulting on intercultural business communication, negotiation and management, with a focus on general cultural as well as culture-specific areas, also on professional mobility and expatriation.

Vincent Merk speaks French (mother-tongue), Dutch, English, German and Spanish. He was educated at Université Marc Bloch, Strasbourg, and Université Stendhal in Grenoble, where he received an MA degree in Business Administration with English and German in 1980. He subsequently carried out postgraduate studies at the University of Amsterdam. He is a member of SIETAR Europa and he served two years as president of the Board of Directors (1997-1999). He is a member of the e-learning community Delta Intercultural Academy and facilitator of the Forum on French business culture.

He has specific expertise on a number of European business cultures and markets including France, Holland, Belgium and Germany. He has also co-authored a book in Dutch on doing business with the French and a new co-authored course book on learning French will appear in September 2007. At the moment he is also conducting research and consulting on business ethics and corporate social responsibility (CSR).

Subject areas include: 

- doing business with the French

- doing business with the Dutch

- doing business in the Benelux

- doing business with mixed French/German teams

- cross-cultural teambuilding

- managing virtual teams

- intercultural leadership skills

- business ethics and CSR