Katrien Rycken

Katrien Rycken holds a Master in Civil Engineering & Architecture from the Catholic University of Leuven and she studied Urban Geography at the University of Toulouse.

She started as a coordinator in 2013, but she is currently the Director of Leuven 2030, a non-profit organisation that strives for a climate-neutral future for the city of Leuven. Leuven 2030 represents inhabitants, companies, civil society organisations, knowledge institutions and public authorities.

Before that, she was Unit leader at Grontmij Group, an engineering and consulting firm that is a part of Sweco. As the Unit Leader of the Team Integrated Projects, she was a proud coach of 12 young, dynamic, enthusiastic engineers developing further the sustainable and/or interdisciplinary approach of particular building/development projects, both in engineering as in consultancy assignments.