Alain Hubert, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Alain Hubert

polar explorer

Date of Birth: 11-Sep-1953

Place of Birth: Schaerbeek, Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium

Profession: engineer, explorer

Nationality: Belgium

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Alain Hubert (born September 11, 1953) is a Belgian explorer.
He is a certified mountain and polar guide, a civil engineer, the President of the Board and one of the founders of the International Polar Foundation.
He is the founder and president of the International Polar foundation.
With the Foundation and its private partners, he built and financed the construction of the scientific research station ‘Princess Elisabeth’.
This station is the first ‘zero emission’ station in Antarctica, designed under the spirit of the Madrid Protocol establishing in 1992 the strictest environmental rules to date for a continent through the Antarctic Treaty System. However, in 2015, the Belgian ministerial council decided to stop cooperation with him due to maladministration, conflict of interest and financial uncertainties. On November 9, 2019, it was announced that the Brussels public prosecutor decided to prosecute Alain Hubert for financial tampering around the Princess Elisabeth base in Antarctica.
The legal investigation started in February 2014 with house searches at Hubert's home in Sint-Genesius-Rode and in the Brussels office of his International Polar Foundation (IPF).