Graduate in European law, Jean-Pierre HANNEQUART began his professional career in 1970 as a lawyer in Liège and then as a teacher in Algeria. He worked as a researcher at the European Centre of the Catholic University of Louvain-La-Neuve and at the Institute for European Environmental Policy in Bonn. A European Parliament Assistant from 1984, he became, in 1989 until 2015, the Director General of the IBGE (Administration for the Environment of the Brussels Region) as well as the President of the ACR + (International Association of cities and regions for recycling and sustainable resource management). He is currently an Advisor to the Spanish “ Fundacion para la Economia Circular “.
