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Speakers at this Event

Dr. Werner Bosmans

Team leader ‘Plastics’, DG Environment

European Commission

Dr. Werner Bosmans

Team leader ‘Plastics’, DG Environment

European Commission

AGENDA SESSION

EU POLICIES ON PLASTICS

Day 1 [Wed 21, June], at 10:40 AM

PROFILE

Werner Bosmans, a Belgian national, graduated as a bio-engineer at Ghent University, Belgium, and obtained a Ph.D. in international economics in Montpellier, France. He also holds a degree in Public Management. After some years in research, he worked as assistant to the heads of the Belgian and Flemish Ministry of Agriculture. He is also part-time professor at the ULB (Université Libre de Bruxelles).

In 2005, he joined the Directorate-General Environment of the European Commission. He helped setting up the International Resource Panel with UNEP, co-authored the Roadmap to a Resource Efficient Europe and initiated work around the Circular Economy. The last years, he developed the Plastics Strategy and the Directive on single use plastics. He is now the team leader for several follow-up actions on plastics.