« A big journey or a mighty climb always
starts with a small step.»
SHI TAO
Reflexions on the art of painting by the Munk
Wild Cucumber
(China 17th cent.)
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(Françoise) Joe Lambert, Belgian (fluent in both sides of the country), grew up in the
South of France and later Hungary where the sight of herdsmen galloping in the open spaces of the Puszta unleashed her passion for horses and horse-related societies.
She returned to Belgium, where she graduated in Language & Linguistics at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, followed by a Third Cycle in Theatre Arts & Directing at the Royal Holloway and Bedford College, London and Erasmus scholarships in Bologna and Sevilla.
Somewhat confident her karate black belt (3d Dan) was a sufficient protection to go conquer the world, she started travelling, writing and filming. Adventure threw her into the heart of Borneo and on the roads of South East Asia until her heart stopped in pure awe for the beauty of Mongolia, land of the absolute sky! The project to launch adventure horse-riding trips in the land of the Great Khan came to a stop when she was hired by Liberty TV (thematic travel television).
Her later position as Vice President Production brought her to travel and cover countries around the globe. For 6 years, her experience in media and tourism concretized in the launch of active advertising campaigns on Liberty TV pan-European channels contributing to an image build up for emerging tourism destinations ( Eritrea, Djibouti, Cameroun, Benin, Mongolia,…)
But soon the call of the desert was too strong. Remaining a consultant for Liberty TV, she left for the Algerian Sahara where the project to make a film on the footsteps of the 19th century Swiss adventurer and travel writer Isabelle Eberhardt came up as a necessity. While working to gather finances for this somewhat ambitious project, she is launching a series of 26 minutes films about treasures of the Algerian desert.
Joe has a passion for her twin sister and for Triumph motorcycles, she cannot be far from books and banks on a merciful life that will grant her to explore further, better.
Confucius, the Chinese philosopher, once said, "To learn without thinking is in vain; to think without learning is dangerous". Learning or knowing anything requires both thought and investigation, theory and facts. That is why she decided to attend the Master cycle in International Relations and Crisis Analysis (CRIAC) at the Universite Catholique de Louvain, in order to better understand, analyse and judge the contemporary state of world affairs.
She has also attended, in March 2010, a 'Generic Formation in Civilian Crisis Management' organised by the Belgian Foreign Affairs Ministry in order to be part of a pool of European experts sent on missions abroad within the CSDP actions (EU Common Security and Defence Policy)
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