Secretary & Treasurer

“Science is a powerful bridge between Europe and the US. Amici Lovanienses exemplifies this bridge.”

Koenraad Debackere has been a professor of Technology and Innovation Management & Policy at KU Leuven since 1995. Koenraad was a visiting doctoral student and Fulbright post-doctoral fellow at MIT Sloan School and obtained best paper awards from the TIM Division of the American Academy of Management, the Decision Sciences Institute, and the International Association for the Management of Technology.

He is the managing director of KU Leuven Research & Development and chairman of the KU Leuven seed fund, Gemma Frisius. He is co-founder and chairman of Leuven.Inc, the innovation network of Leuven high-tech entrepreneurs. He has also been the general manager of KU Leuven since 2005. And in 2015, Koenraad was appointed chairman of EIT Health e.V. – a KIC of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology.

Degrees

Master of Science in Electrical Engineering, University of Gent Master of Business Administration, Vlerick Business School Ph.D. in Management Science, University of Gent

Awards

Prize for Scientific Excellence, Belgian Entreprise Foundation (VBO) (2006) Honorary Professorship, Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex (2007)