Freek van Eijk is co-chair of the Coordination Group of the EU Circular Economy Stakeholder Platform (ECESP).
Freek van Eijk is also CEO of Holland Circular Hotspot (HCH), an independent platform that facilitates the transition to a circular economy at the international level by bringing together government authorities, knowledge institutes and especially businesses. HCH supports knowledge exchange to stimulate entrepreneurship in the field of circular economy.
Furthermore, he is an adjunct professor at the LUISS Business School and serves in several governmental advice committees as well as in innovation award juries
He is one of the more senior EU experts in the field of Waste Management and Circular Economy and has been described as a “mover and a shaker’.
Previously he was vice chair of the triple helix organization Circular Biobased Delta, he served for over a decade as Director of strategy and PA at multinational SUEZ and as a board member at the Dutch Waste Management Association and the Society and Enterprise Foundation and acted as a Sherpa of the EU Innovation Partnership on Raw Materials.
He is an MSc. Eng. (Delft University of Technology).