Eric Huybrechts is a senior Architect and Urban/Regional Planner, member of Isocarp, Icomos and Officer of the Royal order of Sahametrey (Kingdom of Cambodia).
He is the Manager of the International affairs at the Directorate general of The Institute Paris Region (www.institutparisregion.fr). He has developed a large experience in the field of Urban and Regional Planning as expert and team leader on Algiers, Beirut, Cairo, Damascus, Dubai, Ethiopia, Istanbul, Kampala, Mongolia, Mumbai, Paris/Ile-de-France, Phnom Penh, Rio de Janeiro, Samarkand, Saudi Arabia, Tripoli-Libya, Al Ula. He has prepared projects at local level, sub metropolitan, metropolitan, regional and national scales. He prepare studies and projects on World heritage sites of Samarkand, Damascus, Istanbul, Old Islamic Cairo and Al Ula.
He represents IAU-IdF to discussions with Unesco and Icomos. He has also an academic experience as a scientific researcher in the Middle-East countries (director of the French research center CERMOC, now IFPO), and as a lecturer in several universities in France (Paris 1 - Sorbonne university / Paris 7 Diderot university, Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées) and abroad (MIT/Boston…), mainly on Territorial planning in the Global South. He is member of the scientific council of the Labex Dynamite (18 scientific research units focusing on Geography, History and Archeology).