Teachers/ Translators degree Languages Dutch/English/German
B.A. Political & Social sciences
B.A. Psychology
B.A. Management Sciences
B.A. & Ph.D. Philosophy, Oriental Philosophy & comparative religion
B.A. Law school University Bonn
Postgraduate Ecology–Waste management
Yachtmaster International Coastal A.Y.A.
Yachtmaster International Offshore A.Y.A.
Languages
Dutch, English, German, French, Italian, Spanish
Professional experience
P.R. officer SABENA
Military service officer (translator/interpreter) Headquarters NATO-forces Germany
Teacher Dutch-English-German-French
Information secretary Belgian Embassy Germany
Chancellor Embassy of Belgium Saudi Arabia
Researcher Philosophy & U.V.V.
Training Manager Eric Krauthammer Geneva
Director of a centre for 4th world children
Manager Sun-clubs Mediterranean Area
Manager Wirtz NV club-programme
Assistant Research Philosophy & Comparative Religion VUB
Chargé de mission, ministry of Development cooperation, postgraduate programmes Belgium
Diplomat, Deputy-director Development Cooperation JAKARTA
Special Consultant to Indonesian Minister of Industry, industrial restructuring metal industry
Consultant Industrial restructuring LAOS World-bank-programme
Director MERLIN (Multipurpose Eco-efficiency Research L. Int.)
Environmental consultant Procter & Gamble, Unilever, Cargill-Dow, OWS (Belgium), Monsanto (It), NOVON International, Tonawanda (US), BASF Aktlengeselschaft, (Germany), Rohm and Haas Company (US), Showa Highpolymer (Japan), Mitsui Toatsu Chemicals, Inc., Central Research Institute, Yokohama, (Japan), Idroplast (It), Witco Corporation, Health and Environmental Affairs, Greenwich, (CT-US) NCDA (US), Shimadzu Corporation, New Business Development, Kyoto, (Japan), US Department of Agriculture, Food Physical Chemical Research Unit, Peoria, (IL-US)
Bioenvironmental Polymer Society, American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM), European Standardisation Committee (CEN), International Standards Organization (ISO), Institute for Standards Research (ISR), German Institute for Standardisation (DIN), Consultant ICS-UNIDO
Managing Director ORCA (Organic Reclamation and Composting Association).
Executive Director IBPMA (Biopolymer Technology)
Consultant University Weimar (Environmental Science)
Consultant University Leeds (Department Civil Engineering)
Consultant University Ghent, University Bologna, University Padua (environmental-and waste-management)
Consultant Department of Chemical Engineering, Lansing, MI.
Consultant Aston University, Birmingham, UK. Industrial and Consumer Sector Research
Consultant Agrotechnological Research Institute, Wageningen, Netherlands.
Consultant Army Natick Research and Development Center, Biotechnology Division
President TECNOMEC ENGINEERING (Italy)
Director charter-business Todo y Mas Ltd (Marmaris Turkey)
Teacher Gökova Yachting sailing school
Playwright, co-director, acting-coach theatre in Antwerp
PUBLICATIONS
Scientific/Ecology
ORCA No. 1: Information on Composting and Anaerobic Digestion.
ORCA No.2: A Review of Compost Standards in Europe.
ORCA No.3: Compostability Criteria - Guidelines of Feedstocks for Source Separated Biowaste Composting and Biogasification.
ORCA No.4: ORCA/OWS Report - The Impact of Paper Products on Biowaste Composting.
ORCA No.5: Third Annual ORCA Conference Book Fitting Composting and Anaerobic Digestion into Integrated Waste Management
ORCA No.6: The Science of Composting . Bologna Italy.
ORCA No.7: Ecobalance of Compost versus Mineral Fertilizer.
Projektarbeit Qualitatsbestimmungen und Regelungen zur Anwendung und Vermarktung von Kompost in der Europaischen Union. Behandlung organischer Siedlungsabfalle in der Europaischen Union
State of the Art Biogenic Composting in Europe (only available in German).
The Science of Composting : Bertoldi, Sequi, LEMMES, Papi (Kluwer)
BIODEGRADABLE PACKAGING, RULES, REGULATIONS AND THE INTERNATIONAL, CONTEXT GATT (GENERAL AGREEMENT ON TARIFFS AND TRADE) 1994 INCORPORATED IN THE 1994 AGREEMENT ON THE T.W.O.)
LITERATURE
Poetry & theatre
Kleine reiziger van het licht
Erotische gedachten
Scheur in de tijd (poetry-theatre)
Twee werelden (theatre)
Zwei Welten (theatre)
PHILOSOPHY
Suicide, act or modus vivendi