Nathan Gaasenbeek was born in Rotterdam, The Netherlands in 1977. He received a Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from Rotterdam Polytechnic in 1999. He has more than 10 years’ experience in a wide variety of civil and environmental engineering tasks, specifically in the field of implementation of the Landfill Directive (technical design), mining related projects, waste management and communal infrastructure engineering. He has carried out environmental and infrastructural projects in Finland, The Netherlands, Lithuania, Russia and the Dutch West Indies.