Sandra De Mey graduated in 1991 as a bachelor in Communications Management (specialties in PR & advertising). Post graduate: port management at the Ghent University Maritime Institute.
She has been working with Ghent Port Company since 1992, where she started her career as a PR assistant (PR department). Not much later, she was appointed head of PR until in 2004 she opted for a new challenge as dry bulk manager and later as an account manager.
Today, as commercial manager her focus points are agribulk, liquids, food and (bio based)chemistry. Account management, trade, prospection and invest are daily focus points. Since years, she was also appointed as Ambassador for Women in Agribusiness.
Sandra is a board member of IMEXGRA vzw (import export grains) and also of Promotion Council North Sea Port. Furthermore she is an ambassador for ‘Women in Agribusiness’.
Today she has already been working for 31 years in the port (started as Port of Ghent) that very recently (January 1, 2018) changed to NORTH SEA PORT, the cross border port.