Overview
Dirk Haex is Managing Director of Belnet, based in Brussels. He took up that role in July 2022, having previously served as co-General Director from April 2020 to June 2022, and he has been Engineering & Operations Director since October 2015. He joined Belnet in March 2003 as a Senior Engineer and was Head of Networks from April 2005 to September 2015. Since June 2026 he has also sat on the board of DNS Belgium.
Before Belnet, Haex was a Communication System Engineer at AXI from February 2000 to March 2003, and a Research & Development Engineer at Colruyt Group from August 1998 to January 2000. He studied telecommunications at Erasmushogeschool Brussel from 1994 to 1998 and completed a master's in communication technology at De Nayer Instituut Mechelen in 2003.
Career history
In the news
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- It’s official: TNC is coming back to Belgium in 2027! I’m honoured that Belnet will co-host GÉANT’s flagship conference together with our colleagues, neighbours and friends at Restena Foundation. This will be the first time TNC is hosted jointly by two NRENs, making this partnership even more special. Over the coming months, we look forward to working closely with Restena Foundation , GÉANT and many other partners to make #TNC27 a great success for the international Research & Education community. 📅To the Belnet community: I hope
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