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Identity card.
Belgian, 51 years old, married to an English lady, from Leeds, two children : a boy of 14 years old, and a girl of 11.
Education.
1977 : Business and Administration University degree from HEC Liège, Belgium.1986 : Post graduate specialisation certificate in finance from the University of Louvain, Belgium (UCL).
1988 : Diploma in financial analysis from the Financial Analysis Inter University Centre, Belgium.
Professional expertise.
A number of jobs enabled me to add financial, organisational, marketing and strategic expertise to my initial baggage.
Then in 1993, I faced for the first time packaging and the implementation in national legislation of the Packaging and Packaging Waste Directive. Indeed, that is when I started to challenge, for COCKERILL SAMBRE, the Belgian national steel for packaging producer, and in co-operation with the other industries of the chain, involved in packaging, the recycling goals the Belgian legislator was asking industry to meet. The industry in a united approach has been successful in achieving those goals. Organizations, such as FOST PLUS, VALORLUX, STALUPACK, and VAL-I-PAC were born and I took, as board member, at the time, an active role in all of these. Since November 1999, I am Director General of APEAL, the Association of European Steel for Packaging producers, located in Brussels. Though my involvement in packaging remains complete, I have moved from a national to a European level of commitment.
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