Pierre Herben

Pierre Herben is the current Head of Research, Technology and Innovation at Bellona Foundation.
Pierre has 30 years of experience from companies such as Shell, Montell and Lyondell Basell Industries, before becoming Chief Technology Officer at Yara International. At Yara he later continued as “Executive Vice President Corporate Innovation”. He has long experience from the management of major international companies in research, innovation and business development. Pierre has been at the forefront of strategy development for both decarbonization and circular economics in the petrochemical industry. Pierre holds a “Master of Bio-Engineering – Université Catholique de Louvain – LLN” from Belgium. He lives in Brussels.