People

Dirk Carrez is the Managing Director of Clever Consult, Vice-Chair of BIAC’s (Business and Industry Advisory Committee to the OECD) Biotechnology Committee, and a member of several European and national advisory bodies in the area of the biobased economy.

Dirk Carrez is also the Executive Director of the Bio-based Industries Consortium (BIC). BIC brings together actors from different sectors and disciplines to establish a pan-European bio-based industry. As such, BIC represents the private sector in a public-private partnership (PPP) with the European Commission, the Bio-based Industries Joint Undertaking (BBI JU). BIC’s mission is ‘To connect industry, academia, regions and citizens to transform bio-based feedstocks into novel sustainable products and applications, and to create circular bioeconomy ecosystems through investments, innovation and know-how”.

Dirk Carrez is Bioengineer and holds a PhD in Agricultural Sciences. He has worked at SOLVAY in the research department, at the Belgian Federation for the Life Sciences and Chemical Industry as Director Innovation & Product Policy and as Secretary-general of the Belgian Biotechnology Industry Association, and has been Director Industrial Biotechnology at EuropaBio.

Dirk Carrez is also Doctor Honoris Causa of the University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne.