Staff
The BIC office at 38/40 Square de Meeûs, B-1000, is located across the road from a city park, while being strategically close to both the European Parliament and Commission.
Dirk Carrez
BIC Executive Director
Dirk Carrez is the Executive Director of BIC. He 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 Vice-Chair of BIAC’s (Business and Industry Advisory Committee to the OECD) Biotechnology Committee, a member of several European and national advisory bodies in the area of the biobased economy, and Doctor Honoris Causa of the University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne.
During my career, first as a scientist and later in a different association, we tried to make the world more sustainable: by developing new enzymes that could replace the use of certain chemicals, by promoting industrial biotechnology as a more sustainable technology, by creating a better political framework in Europe for the bio-economy. Finally, we see the change… BIC was created to represent the private sector in the EU's Joint Undertaking supporting innovation in Europe's bio-based industries. We were there at the inception: the sowing of the seed. After you plant the seed, then you need to nurture it while it grows. BIC's role is one of nurturing Europe's bio-based industries.
