Karel Vinck (born 19 September 1938, in Aalst) is a

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businessman. In 1994 the readers of the weekly business magazine Trends chose him to be the Manager of the year. He graduated as a Master in Electrical and Mechanical Engineering from the

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven KU Leuven (or Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) is a Catholic research university in the city of Leuven, Belgium. It conducts teaching, research, and services in computer science, engineering, natural sciences, theology, humanities, medicine, l ...

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, Belgium) and got an MBA from

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Career

He started his career at

Eternit Eternit is a registered trademark for a brand of fibre cement currently owned by the Belgian company Etex. Fibre is often applied in building and construction materials, mainly in roofing and facade products. Material description The term "ce ...

. Afterwards Karel Vinck was director of Bekaert N.V from 1985 up to 1994. In 1995, he started working for Union Minière, where he led the restructuring of the company. He is also a member of the Board of Suez-Tractebel, Tessenderlo Group, of the

and of the ''Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie''. He is Co-ordinator of the

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(ERTMS) with the

European Commission The European Commission (EC) is the executive of the European Union (EU). It operates as a cabinet government, with 27 members of the Commission (informally known as "Commissioners") headed by a President. It includes an administrative body o ...

, and chairman of

Cumerio On 17 December 2008, Cumerio and Norddeutsche Affinerie AG (NA) became Aurubis - Europe's biggest copper producer. Cumerio is (was) a copper refining company formed in 2005 by the division of the copper activity of Umicore. The Cumerio shares we ...

. Karel Vinck is honorary chairman of the Flemish employers association (VEV), and Chairman of the

Flemish Science Policy Council The Flemish Council for Science and Innovation ( nl, Vlaamse Raad voor Wetenschap en Innovatie, VRWI), previously known as the Flemish Council for Science Policy ( nl, Vlaamse Raad voor Wetenschapsbeleid, VRWB) is the advisory body of the Flemish Go ...

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Karel Vinck
(Umicore) 1938 births Living people Flemish businesspeople KU Leuven alumni People from Aalst, Belgium Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management alumni {{Belgium-business-bio-stub