Luc Hindryckx

Director General, ecta

Luc has 30+ years of experience in the telecom industry and has been active in business development, operations leadership as well as regulatory and public affairs.

Before joining ecta in September 2016, he worked as Monitoring Trustee on behalf of Advolis. As a rule, the task of the monitoring trustee is to control the implementation of commitments undertaken by companies under merger, antitrust or state aid proceedings on behalf of a domestic or European competition authority.

In 2009 he was appointed Executive Chairman of BIPT the Belgian Regulator and served as an elected or appointed member of multiple boards and delegations, including BEREC, ERGP, CERRE, ENISA, and UPU.

From 2008 to 2009, he set up his own company to provide executive leadership and strategic advisory services and completed assignments for Coditel/Numericable, KPN Belgium, IPM, WIN, and TECTEO/VOO.

Before he held senior positions at Telenet, the largest provider of cable broadband services in Belgium, and he has also worked for Global One and Prescom. Luc is a Belgian national and has a Master of Business Administration (MBA) in International General Management from the Vlerick Business School, as well as a Master of Science in Industrial Engineering from Haute École Louvain en Hainaut (HELHA).

He is a native Dutch and French speaker, and speaks fluent English.