Paul De Bruycker joined Indaver at its start in 1986 as Sales and Marketing Director and he took up the position of CEO in 2011. Since the beginning of 2025 he has been appointed as Chairman of the Board of Directors. With a career of over 40 years in waste management, Paul is a respected senior expert in waste management and waste legislation. Paul holds a master’s degree in bioengineering from the UGent and has an education in Business Engineering and Marketing. He is President of CEWEP, President of Circular Flanders a PPS structure steering the transition of the Flemish economy towards more circularity, member of the Strategic Committee of Flanders' federation of the chemical industry ('Essenscia'), President of the Council for Strategic Advice at the Faculty of Bio Engineering (Ghent University) and Member of the Royal Academy for Science and the Arts.