Antwerp Port Authority elects new CEO

Jacques Vandermeiren is Chief Executive Officer and President of the Executive Committee of Antwerp Port Authority as of 1 January 2017. Until January 2015 he was CEO and President of the Executive Committee of the network operator Elia, a listed company, where he had held various management positions since joining in 2001. Before that he worked for 11 years as Senior Advisor Strategy Direction with the energy company Electrabel.

Vandermeiren has occupied various directorships with, among others, Febeg (Federation of Belgian Energy Companies) and the Federation of Belgian Enterprises. He is also co-founder of the Belgian sustainability platform The Shift, as well as co-investor in Qpinch, which generates energy from waste heat, and in Uest, which markets the Zembro personal alarm. Finally Vandermeiren is a director of the Vascobelo Group, an upmarket Belgian coffee brand with Antwerp as its home port.

Vandermeiren graduated as Master of Law, a qualification which he later supplemented with a master’s in European Studies, a Middle Management course with the Vlerick Business School and an Advanced Management Programme with the INSEAD Business School.

Annik Dirkx
Antwerp Port Authority
Zaha Hadidplein 1, 2030 Antwerp
Tel: +32 3 205 23 09
Mob: +32 479 79 46 50
annik.dirkx@portofantwerp.com
source: portofantwerp.com