Fall European Members Networking Meeting

Wen Dong joined CHRO Association in September of 2020. She currently leads HR Policy Global, a premium program for HR Policy members, providing information and insight on key international trends and developments. She is also responsible for member engagement and research.

Prior to HR Policy, she was the International Labor Relations Manager for Walmart, where she specialized in global employee and labor relations. Her other experience includes various HR positions with TRW Automotive in Detroit and PetroChina in China. She received her degree of Master Public Administration from the University of Louisville.

Eleonora Isopo is Director General of European Chemical Employers Group (ECEG), based in Brussels, Belgium. She has held the role since July 2025, following seven months as Acting Director General beginning in January 2025, when ECEG announced her appointment to lead the organization.

Isopo has spent nearly eight years at ECEG, building deep expertise in EU employment and social affairs policies and in sectoral social dialogue for the chemical industry. She joined the organization in December 2018 as the Junior Policy Executive, was promoted to Policy Executive in January 2021, and progressed to Acting Director General and then Director General as her policy expertise and leadership responsibilities grew.

Isopo holds a master’s degree (with honours) in International Relations and European Affairs and a bachelor’s degree in International Relations and Diplomatic Sciences, both from the University of Bologna in Italy.

Geert Langenus obtained degrees in Economics from the University of Ghent and the Catholic University of Leuven. He joined the Economics and Research Department of the National Bank of Belgium where he first worked as a public finance expert focusing mostly on fiscal sustainability, structural budget balances and fiscal institutions. Afterwards he moved to a broader range of macroeconomic topics, including the coordination of the Bank’s biannual macroeconomic projections, the elaboration of nowcasting models and the analysis of the residential real estate market. He regularly appears in the Belgian media with his views on the Belgian economy. He has held different teaching positions (in the fields of macroeconomics, international economics, applied European policy and real estate markets) and is the author of several publications ranging from public finances to nowcasting. He has also been involved in various technical assistance projects (IMF, EC, OECD) in both Eastern Europe and the MENA region related to budgetary and economic policy as well as macroeconomic statistics.

Read the recent policy paper on Eurosclerosis co-authored with Governor Pierre Wunsch here: Eurosclerosis 2.0 in a Changing World: From Repetition to Rupture | National Bank of Belgium (or check out the shorter blog: Eurosclerosis 2.0 in a changing world: can Europe once again rise to the occasion? | National Bank of Belgium )

Kathy Roussel is Head of External Affairs at amfori, a global business association that facilitates risk management for companies to build more resilient and sustainable supply chains. She oversees amfori’s global external affairs agenda, strengthening the organisation’s engagement with policymakers, international institutions and other key stakeholders across regions. Drawing on more than 20 years experience in public affairs, Kathy helps shape dialogue on sustainable trade, responsible business conduct, and resilient global supply chains. She holds degrees in Political Science and European Law and is based in Brussels.

Lisa Salas serves as the Director of European Affairs at the Association, leading and growing a senior-level community of Chief HR Officers and labor relations practitioners focused on navigating Europe’s evolving employment, workforce and societal landscape.

With over 25 years of experience advising executive leadership teams in multinational organizations, she brings deep expertise in:

• European labor relations and social dialogue
• European Works Councils and transnational consultation
• Workforce transformation, restructuring and change
• Navigating regulatory, political and trade union complexity across Europe

Thomas Stühm is Director, Global Employee Relations at JD.com. Based in the Cologne Bonn region, he has held the role since September 2024, leading the company’s global employee and labor relations strategy.

Before JD.com, Stühm served as EU Head of Employee & Labor Relations / Director at Wipro (July 2022–September 2024) in Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany.

Stühm spent nearly ten years at Amazon (2013–2022), progressing from DE Senior Manager Employee Relations, Customer Fulfillment to Head of Employee Relations Operations Germany, and ultimately to EU ER Principal – EU Customer Fulfillment.

Earlier, he spent more than seven years at TNT Express Germany (2005–2012) in labor law roles of increasing responsibility, culminating as Manager, Labour Law and Human Resources.

Stühm trained in German law, completing his Referendariat and Second State Examination at the OLG Braunschweig and his First State Examination at Justus Liebig University Giessen, with additional legal studies at the University of Warwick and Bielefeld University.

Alan Wild is Senior Advisor of Global Employee Relations at the CHRO Association and CEO of the consulting company Global Employee Relations Solutions. Alan’s 40-year career in employee relations includes work in the corporate, consulting, and intergovernmental world.

Prior to returning to the CHRO Association, Alan was Employee Relations Director for Amazon in Europe and for major operations outside the US and Canada. At IBM, he was Vice President of Employee Relations and Engagement for the company’s worldwide operations. As a consultant, Alan worked directly with more than 100 of the Fortune 500 companies in the United States and several major European, Australian, South African, and Japanese enterprises. His firm also worked on assignments for the United Nations, the International Labour Organization, the International Red Cross, the European Commission, and the Global Fund. Alan also worked for 10 years in the United Nations System, as HR Director and member of the Director General’s senior executive team at the International Labour Organization in Geneva and as CHRO of the International Red Cross. He has represented the business community internationally at the OECD (BIAC), the ILO (as a Governing Body member), the United Nations (through the International Organization of Employers), and the European Union (through BusinessEurope).

Alan has managed significant human resource projects in more than 90 countries in East, West, and Central Europe, North, Central, and South America, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. He has also spent time working in the US, the UK, and Switzerland.

He is also the author of several books covering employee relations and business advocacy, and has taught at major universities in Europe, the United States, and Japan. His podcast, “A Walk On The Wild Side - Managing Employee Relations in Global and Millennial Times,” is regularly listened to by almost 10,000 employee relations professionals in 70 countries.

After years spent traveling the world with his wife Motoko and their two children, Alan has returned to his UK roots in Cotswolds, England.