Gaëtan Hannecart

Gaëtan Hannecart is a civil engineer mechanics and production policy from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. He started his career at Kone Lifts in London in 1988. He was awarded a European Commission Comet scholarship in 1989 and he joined IBM Germany in Stuttgart, subsequently moving to IBM Belgium in Brussels, where he worked as an industry specialist ‘manufacturing companies’. In 1994, he earned a master of business administration degree at the Harvard Business School. That same year he joined Matexi, the Belgian market leader in area and real estate development and urban renewal projects, where he is chief executive officer. He is co-founder and director of the non-profit think and do tank Itinera Institute (sustainable economic growth for Belgium and its regions), co-founder and chairman of the non-profit YouthStart (reintegration of underprivileged young people) and chairman of the non-profit Guberna (good governance). He is currently chairman of Financière de Tubize, the listed reference shareholder of the biopharma company UCB and director at N-Side and Groupe Louis Delhaize. Since 2020, he is a member of the SIPEF board where he represents the Bracht group.