Freek van Eijk - CEO, Holland Circular Hotspot

Freek van Eijk is CEO of Holland Circular Hotspot, 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 with the aim to stimulate entrepreneurship in the field of circular economy.

He is co-chair of the Coordination Group of the EU Circular Economy Stakeholder Platform.

Freek van Eijk is also vice-chair of the Circular Biobased Delta, an alliance of Dutch provinces, businesses and knowledge centres pioneering a sustainable circular and biobased economy. Furthermore, he is an adjunct professor at the LUISS Business School.

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 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, 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).