David is an environmental-health risk governance analyst specialised in EU policy debates. Until 2006, he worked twelve years in chemicals issue management for Solvay, Cefic and Burson-Marsteller. Until 2022, David was a professor in communications, public relations, lobbying and marketing at Vesalius College, Facultés Saint-Louis and Odisee University College. In 2001, he was one of the founders of GreenFacts, a science-based risk communications tool for non-specialists.
A pioneer in science communications and science and society issues for more than two decades, David sits on various research ethics panels and frequently serves as a chair, expert, rapporteur, ethics adviser or evaluator for European-funded research projects. He writes a blog under the pseudonym: The Risk-Monger, assessing the European use of evidence in environmental-health policy management. He is the editor of The Firebreak, a news site that monitors media coverage of environmental-health news.