Bain & Company, a global business consultancy firm, has appointed Philippe De Backer as Partner & Director, Global Financial Services located in the Middle East. Prior to the move, De Backer was a partner with Bain & Company based in Brussels and Paris, where he was head of Bain & Company's Benelux and France Financial Services Practice. A highly experienced corporate strategist and author of four books on management, De Backer joined the firm in 1992 in Boston, and shortly thereafter moved to Belgium to open the Brussels office.