Luc Van

Luc Van den hove is President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of imec, a role he has held since 2009. Before this, he was Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer at imec.

Under his leadership, imec has grown to an organization with a staff of around 4,000 people, operating with an annual budget of around €640m (2019) and with offices in Belgium, the Netherlands, US, Japan, Taiwan, China and India. Luc joined imec in 1984.

Luc is also professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Leuven and a member of the Technology Strategy Committee of ASML.

He received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Leuven, Belgium. He has authored or co-authored more than 150 publications and conference contributions.