Room: King Willem Alexander
Date: Tuesday, 19 May 2026
Time: 10:20 - 11:30 CEST
Opening Addresses
Chair & Moderator
Kees KWANT
Conference General Chair, Former Netherlands Enterprise Agency, Ministry of Economic Affairs, RVO, THE NETHERLANDS
Biography
Kees W. Kwant is a Senior Expert on Bioenergy and Circular Biobased Economy. He was employed at the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO), a department of the Ministry of Climate and Green Growth in the Netherlands. He primarily links researchers and industry to help develop the circular biobased economy and bioenergy in the Netherlands and abroad. He has been active in bilateral collaborations on biobased applications and involved in the IEA Bioenergy Exco and was the chairman between 2014 - 2017. He was a member of the CEM Biofuture Initiative and Mission Director of the Mission Integrated Biorefineries for fuels and chemicals within Mission Innovation till the end of 2025. He is now ready to act as one of the chairman’s of the EUBCE and will continue to work in this area voluntarily and from his own company.
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