Education
Flor Joosen graduated in economics at the Instituut voor Hoger Niet-Universitaire Studies (IHNUS) in Ghent.
Flor Joosen graduated in economics at the Instituut voor Hoger Niet-Universitaire Studies (IHNUS) in Ghent.
Since 1 July 2007, he is also president of UNIZO.
Flor Joosen descends from a family of millers, and the windmill in the Bokrijk museum is an old mill of the Joosen family business. He started his career in the family business for cattle (Joosen-Luyckx) and fish feed (Joosen-Luyckx Aqua Biology). Later on, he became active in poultry with Belki, a poultry slaughterhouse.
In the eighties, he wanted to improve on the fish feed and contacted Willy Verdonck at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.
Out of this contact grew a fishfarm, which was the basis for a sturgeon nursery, and which lead to the caviar business in the early nineties of the twentieth century.