Career
Dubrulle was trained at the Naval School in Ostend (B) and spent two years at sea. His academic background is in psychology and sociology at the Social Academy of his hometown Ghent. He has been involved in environmental activism and environmental protection for more than 40 years.
His professional experience includes environmental management, communication strategies and European affairs
He was President of GreenFacts-Communicating Scientific Facts on Health and Environment from 2005 to 2009. Appointed Managing Director of Hill and Knowlton International Belgium in 1980, he left this leading Puerto Rico/Pennsylvania agency to start his own consultancy in 1986.
Until 1998 he was Managing Director of EMSA Europe South America, Environmental Management Strategies and Analysis. He presently is Managing Director of Dubrulle s.c.r.l., a cooperative services consultancy specialized in environmental affairs and sustainable development.
He lectured at several universities in Belgium, France, Italy and the United Kingdom He was a Belgian delegate at the first United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm (1972), is a Past President of the European Society for Environment and Development (ESED), stood on the Policy Committee of the International Council for Oil and the Environment (ICOE) in Edinburgh.
He has been active in many federalist movements and think tanks: Beweging voor de Verenigde Staten van Europa, Centre d’études pour les communes et les provinces/ Studiecentrum voor steden en gemeenten, Coudenberg group, Front voor Unionistisch Federalisme/Front pour le fédéralisme d’Union, and B Plus. In the seventies and eighties he worked closely with the Swiss philosopher Denis de Rougemont as a counsellor of the Centre Européen de la Culture.
