In 1962 Professor RAOUL WEILER (°1938) graduated as an Engineer in Chemistry and Agro-Industries (Bio-Engineer). In 1966 he became a doctor in Agriculture Sciences. Both degrees were obtained at the K.U.Leuven. From 1966 till 1968 Raoul Weiler was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Department Chemistry) and the Catholic University of America in Washington DC (Department Physics).

From 1968 till 1969 he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique of the Université de Paris V. From 1970 till 1972 he lived in Germany where he worked for the group Bayer AG (Leverkusen) in the department of Applied Physics as a researcher R&D and process-engineer. Between 1973 and 1996 he worked for the same company in Antwerp.

Since 1995 he has been a visiting professor at the Université Catholique de Louvain-la-Neuve (for the course: societal aspects of technology); since 1996 he also gives lectures at the Universiteit Antwerpen (for the course: Philosophy of Technology).

Since 1997 he has been a member of the Centre for Agricultural Bio- and Environmental Ethics (Ethics on Agriculture, Life Sciences and Environment). He gives a course on the social-ethical aspects of technology at the Faculty of Agricultural and Applied Biological Sciences. Raoul Weiler is also a member of various associations and committees in the field of Sciences, Engineering and Sustainable Development. He joined the Club of Rome as an elected founder-president of the Brussels-EU Chapter of the Club of Rome and since 2002 he is a member of the Executive Committee of the international Club of Rome.