Luc Bossyns is a Belgian

Belgium

Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...

 engineer and businessman. He is managing director of Aquafin

Aquafin

Aquafin is a Belgian company specialized in wastewater treatment and mainly active in Flanders. Luc Bossyns is the managing director of Aquafin.-History:The company was established in 1990 by the Flemish government, which is also its sole shareholder...

 the Flemish

Flanders

Flanders is the community of the Flemings but also one of the institutions in Belgium, and a geographical region located in parts of present-day Belgium, France and the Netherlands. "Flanders" can also refer to the northern part of Belgium that contains Brussels, Bruges, Ghent and Antwerp...

 wastewater

Wastewater

Wastewater is any water that has been adversely affected in quality by anthropogenic influence. It comprises liquid waste discharged by domestic residences, commercial properties, industry, and/or agriculture and can encompass a wide range of potential contaminants and concentrations...

 processing company.

Education

He graduated as a civil engineer

Civil engineer

A civil engineer is a person who practices civil engineering; the application of planning, designing, constructing, maintaining, and operating infrastructures while protecting the public and environmental health, as well as improving existing infrastructures that have been neglected.Originally, a...

 in naval engineering from Ghent University

Ghent University

Ghent University is a Dutch-speaking public university located in Ghent, Belgium. It is one of the larger Flemish universities, consisting of 32,000 students and 7,100 staff members. The current rector is Paul Van Cauwenberge.It was established in 1817 by King William I of the Netherlands...

. In addition he also graduated in company management at the University of Antwerp

University of Antwerp

The University of Antwerp is one of the major Belgian universities located in the city of Antwerp. The name is sometimes abbreviated as UA.-History:...

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Career

In 1977 he started his career as an engineer at Cockerill Yards Hoboken (Hoboken). First he worked with the Compagnie Maritime Belge

Compagnie Maritime Belge

-History:The CMB was founded in 1895 under the name Compagnie Belge Maritime du Congo . At the request of Leopold II of Belgium and with support from British investors, a maritime connection was opened with Congo Free State. On 6 February 1895 the CMB ship Léopoldville was the first to leave port...

 (CMB) and the with the Boelwerf shipyard

Shipyard

Shipyards and dockyards are places which repair and build ships. These can be yachts, military vessels, cruise liners or other cargo or passenger ships. Dockyards are sometimes more associated with maintenance and basing activities than shipyards, which are sometimes associated more with initial...

. Luc Bossyns was director-general and director of Boelwerf Vlaanderen from 1993 until 1995 after which he went to work for Stork MEC. He has been managing director of Aquafin

Aquafin

Aquafin is a Belgian company specialized in wastewater treatment and mainly active in Flanders. Luc Bossyns is the managing director of Aquafin.-History:The company was established in 1990 by the Flemish government, which is also its sole shareholder...

since May 2000. From 1995 until November 2006, he was the manager of Bamboss BVBA and was the broker for all the medium-sized ship wharves in Flanders.

He was accepted Fellow of the Royal Belgian Academy for Science and the Arts of Belgium in 2009 (Class Technical Sciences).

Sources

• Luc Bossyns (Aquafin)
• Aquafin (Top 500)