With several decades of work experience under the belt – most of it in international marine environmental protection settings – Gert Verreet is currently an Advisor in the Research Division of the Flemish Department of Economy, Science and Innovation (EWI), where he contributes to Flemish, national & international collaboration in environmental sciences.
He represents Flanders and Belgium in various European natural science cooperation settings related to marine and water research. He started a mandate as chair of the Strategy Working Group Environment of the European Strategy Forum Research Infrastructures (ESFRI) in July 2024. He currently follows actively different European marine and water-related research cooperation mechanisms, such as JPI Oceans, Horizon Europe partnerships, the Mission Ocean & Waters…
He is the Belgian Focal Point for the Unesco Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) and supervises / co-manages the use of resources from the Flanders Unesco Trustfund for the Sciences (FUST) that supports projects in the IOC and the Unesco natural science divisions (with activities in the Intergovernmental Hydrological Programme (IHP), Man & Biosphere Programme (MAB)).
