Key qualifications:

Mr. Torenbeek holds a University Degree in Water Quality & Aquatic Ecology and has been engaged in water management for more than 30 years. He worked for 14 years with Water boards in the Netherlands as aquatic ecologist, where he gained in-depth knowledge of fresh water ecosystems, both for water courses and for lakes. Topics were monitoring, water quality assessment, lake and river rehabilitation, water pollution control, water management, trend analyses, etc.

From 2002 till 2007 he has been working with ARCADIS as specialist in water quality and aquatic ecology. In 2008 he started as a freelancer. As a consultant Mr. Torenbeek worked for many projects, mainly in the Netherlands but also abroad, especially in new EU Member or accession States. Many projects focussed on the Technical Assistance on the Implementation of the Water Framework Directive, like setting environmental objectives, monitoring, assessment of monitoring results and development of a programme of measures for improving water quality.