Luk has been professionally active in the disability sector for over 35 years. He is one of the founding fathers and the Secretary-General of the European Association of Service Providers for Persons with Disabilities (EASPD), an umbrella network representing about 17,000 service provider organisations for persons with disabilities. He is a board member of Social Services Europe, a platform of umbrellas of not for profit social services, and the Chairman of EMINO, a Flemish non-profit organisation offering supported employment and job coaching for people with disabilities and vulnerable groups on the open labour. Luk has extensive knowledge of public policy developments, managing EU funded projects, quality of social services and of deinstitutionalisation and community-based care. He has acted as a speaker and the organiser of conferences on topics such as: education and employment of persons with disabilities, staff training, state aid, poverty reduction, person-centred technology, combating sexual abuse, social policies, capacity-building and stakeholder cooperation. LinkedIn profile