Charlene Lambert

Charlene is an international marketing and business development specialist, educator, and trainer based in The Netherlands. As Treasurer of WEP – the Women Entrepreneurship Platform (www.womenentrepreneurshipplatform.eu) NGO based in Brussels, and Founding Advisory Board Member and Vice President of the Women’s Business Initiative International (WBII)(www.womensbusinessinitiative.net), Charlene actively works to support the development and expansion of women-owned businesses in Europe and The Netherlands. She has recently launched an entrepreneurship training program with the WBII to give women the tools to explore the possibility of starting their own businesses.
With education in languages (B.A. – St. Mary’s – Notre Dame USA) and Urban and Regional Planning (M.Pl. – University of Ottawa), Charlene currently lectures in international business and marketing at Webster University in Leiden, the Netherlands. She has worked in Canada and Europe in the fields of city marketing and Foreign Direct Investment. As past Area Director of the West Holland Foreign Investment Agency, she was responsible for supporting inward investment from Asia and the Middle East to the West Holland Region. As past Chairman of the Taiwan Globalization Network (TGN) she supported Taiwanese and Dutch SMEs to internationalize their businesses and to collaborate in developing new technologies.
Through MLMC International Marketing, Charlene provides market research services and support to international clients.