Flor Joosen
Flor Joosen is a Belgian businessman, who became well known for his caviar business. Since 1 July 2007, he is also president of UNIZO.Education
Flor Joosen graduated in economics at the Instituut voor Hoger Niet-Universitaire Studies in Ghent.Career
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 and fish feed. 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 led to the caviar business in the early nineties of the twentieth century.
