Kristof Vandenberghe

Kristof Vandenberghe

Chief of UNESCO’s Section for Earth Sciences and Geo-Hazard Risk Reduction and Secretary of the International Geoscience and Geoparks Programme
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Kristof Vandenberghe is the Chief of the Section for Earth Sciences and Geo-Hazard Risk Reduction and Secretary of the International Geoscience and Geoparks Programme since June last year. Before that he was the Chief of the Executive Office of the Natural Sciences Sector at UNESCO for two years and he was science advisor in the cabinet of the Director-General of UNESCO.
Kristof joined UNESCO in 2011 in the Bureau for Strategic Planning but started his career in the Research and Development Department of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries of Flanders (Belgium) and moved into the Foreign Affairs Office, where he worked as a diplomat representing the Flemish Government to UNESCO, the OECD and the Council of Europe. He obtained a degree in bioscience engineering at the University of Ghent.