Andries Gryffroy is Belgian Senator and member of the Flemish Parliament. He is also a member of the European Committee of the Regions where his work focuses greatly on the issues related to energy, climate, entrepreneurship and innovation. Andries Gryffroy is a qualified industrial electromechanical engineer and holds a Master’s degree in marketing. He took a number of additional training courses in the energy sector and worked in a range of positions in that sector. Andries Gryffroy is President of the Vietnam – Belgian Vietnamese Alliance (BVA), which mission is to promote and facilitate sustainable trade and investment between Belgium and Vietnam by bringing companies from the two countries closer together. Andries Gryffroy is CoR rapporteur on the EU Renewable Energy Directive and on Wind Power.