Brecht Declercq, MA, MSc is the Digitisation and Acquisition Manager at meemoo – The Flemish Institute for Archives – and President of FIAT/IFTA, the world association of media archives. He is currently responsible for the preservation strategy of the Flemish audiovisual heritage, including one of the largest audiovisual digitisation programmes worldwide.

He worked for the Belgian public broadcaster VRT for almost 10 years as a radio archivist and project lead in several digitisation, media asset management and access projects and lead the FIAT/IFTA Preservation and Migration Commission from 2016 to 2019. He is an active voice in the international audiovisual archives world and a frequent presenter, writer and reviewer.

He also advises the Flemish minister of Culture and to several audiovisual archives and media organisations globally.