Belgian national born in 1980, Philippe Block is a Member of the Board of Directors and of the Health, Safety & Sustainability Committee of Holcim. He was elected to the Board of Directors of Holcim (then LafargeHolcim) in 2020. He holds a Master’s Degree in Civil Engineering-Architecture from the Free University of Brussels, Belgium, and a Master’s Degree in Architectural Studies in Design and Computation and a Ph.D. in Building Technologies from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, USA.