Strategic Foresight

Partner universities: 

• Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain)
• Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium)
• University of Salzburg (Austria)

Professors: 

CIVIS 

Anne Weyembergh (ULB-IEE, Brussels) is Vice-Rector of Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) for External Relations and Development Cooperation since 2020. She is a Professor at the ULB and President of the Institute for European Studies of the ULB – IEE since 2014). She founded and co-coordinates the European Criminal Law Academic Network (ECLAN) since November 2004. She is a Member of the Académie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique (since 2017 – Classe des Lettres et des Sciences morales et politiques). She acted as an academic expert in various research projects for Committees of the European Parliament, most of them concerning EU criminal law.

Amandine Crespy (ULB-IEE, Brussels) is a professor of Political Science and European Studies, affiliated to the Centre d'étude de la vie politique (Cevipol) and the Institute of European Studies at the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB). She also teaches at the College of Europe (Bruges). Her research focuses mainly on the economic governance and social policy of the European Union. She has published her work in a number of French and international journals and collective works. She is the author of four monographs, the latest of which is entitled The European Social Question. Tackling Key Controversies (Agenda, 2022). She is a regular contributor to a number of public debate platforms, including Social Europe and The Conversation.

Frederik Ponjaert (ULB-IEE, Brussels) is a full-time researcher at the Institute of European Studies of the ULB. He specializes in EU-Asian relations, with a focus on Japan. His publications are in the fields of comparative public policy and international trade. Besides his research, he is also the scientific coordinator of several EU-funded research programs, many of which include forecasting efforts.

Roman Puff (PLUS, Slazburg) is a professor of History with a focus on the history of European integration.

Zoe Lefkofridi (PLUS, Slazburg) is University Professor of Politics & Gender, Diversity & Equality at the Department of Political Science at the University of Salzburg. This professorship of political science represents and promotes gender studies in research and teaching and constitutes the first professorship for gender studies at PLUS and in the Salzburg higher education area. Lefkofridi researches and teaches on democracy, diversity, and equality, focusing on the causes and consequences of unequal political participation and representation Lefkofridi coordinates the consortium of the project  PUSH*BACK*LASH (Horizon Europe) and is member of the consortium of the project ACTEU (Horizon Europe) where she also chairs the Working Package 4 (Representation). Lefkofridi is affiliated with the European Governance and Politics Programme of the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (RSCAS) of the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence. She is the editor of “Political Participation”, co-editor of the series “Politics and Democracy in the Smaller Countries of Europe”, NOMOS Publications and former section editor of the new gold open access journal “Frontiers in Political Science”.

Moneyba González is a professor and researcher at the Department of Political Science and International Relations of the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM). She is a member of the Institute of Local Law (IDL-UAM) and the Innovation, Technology and Public Management Research Group (IT_GesPub). She is also a collaborating researcher of the Thematic Network on Sustainable Urban Development (URBAN RED). She holds a doctorate in Political Science and Administration (European mention) from the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC), she has been a visiting researcher at the Centre for Sustainable Planning and Environment of the University of the West of England, UWE-Bristol (UK), postdoctoral at the Department of Architecture and Urban Studies (DASTU) of the Politecnico di Milano (Italy), and predoctoral at the Universität Konstanz (Germany). She has also worked at the Research, Evaluation and Quality Unit of the Galician School of Public Administration and at the Galician Industrial Property Service of the Xunta de Galicia.

Luis Bouza (UAM, Madrid) is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. He was the Academic Coordinator of European General Studies courses of the College of Europe in Bruges between 2012 and 2018 and has also held research and teaching positions at the University of East Anglia and Universidad de Salamanca. He is a graduate of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, did his MA at the College of Europe in Natolin and has a PhD from the Robert Gordon University Aberdeen.

Non-CIVIS (to be confirmed)

Dan Schreiber (European Commission, DG INTPA) is a full-time policy officer at DG INTPA of the European Commission. He is an international expert on peace, development, and humanitarian response in fragile and conflict-affected settings.  He holds a Master's in Public Administration from Erasmus University Rotterdam. He has extensive experience in project management, evaluation, facilitation, and training. He has previously worked with various organisations, including the UN, OECD, and UNDP, and has authored numerous publications, including the OECD's States of Fragility 2020 report.

Jean-Luc Guyot (IWPS) is a sociologist and demographer, scientific director and head of the “Anticipation of socio-economic phenomena” department at IWEPS, the Walloon Institute for Evaluation, Forecasting and Statistics. He is also a visiting professor at the Catholic University of Louvain and the University of Liège.

Alain Ouattara (UN – OCHA) Deputy Head of Office a.i., OCHA Nigeria. A national from Burkina Faso, is the acting Deputy Head of Office based in Maiduguri, Nigeria. He has more than 15 years of field experience with the United Nations (UN) Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) working in various parts of Africa and the Caribbean, in a wide range of settings including protracted and conflict settings (DRC, Nigeria), natural disasters (Haiti), and the Ebola crisis/ health emergency (DRC). Mr. Ouattara's work in OCHA has focused on preparedness and emergency response in the field of information management, strengthening the organization's role in humanitarian response, context and conflict, and stakeholder analyses, and providing oversight of programmatic tasks. He has also led the Humanitarian Programme Cycle that brings together all humanitarian actors to agree on a standard for inter-agency joint programming in humanitarian emergencies and cooperate to achieve collective results and ensure coherent response strategies and implementations. Before joining OCHA in 2005, Mr. Ouattara worked for United Mission in Iraq from 2002 to 2004, providing information technology services support. He also worked in the private sector in Burkina Faso from 1995 to 2002. Mr. Ouattara holds a Doctorate in Information Technology from Walden University and a Master of Science from the University of Liverpool.

Josh Polchar (Strategic foresight expert, OCDE) is a strategic foresight practitioner with over ten years’ experience in public policy. His current work at the OECD Public Governance Directorate seeks to develop enhanced strategic foresight approaches for anticipating and managing emerging critical risk. Joshua previously worked at the OECD Observatory of Public Sector Innovation (OPSI) and in the Office of the Secretary General. He worked with over a dozen national governments and international organisations to develop new knowledge, design interventions, and create processes to build anticipatory capacity. An educator, Joshua is an alumnus and former trainer in the Oxford Scenarios Programme, course instructor on ‘Disrupted Futures’ at EM Lyon Business School, and has delivered guest lectures at several institutions including the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy. Joshua’s publications include ‘Futures of Public Administration’, ‘Trends Shaping Education’, and ‘Unboxing the Future’, as well as blogs on making strategic foresight actionable and accessible. Joshua is an avid language-learner, proficient in three languages and able to get by in five more.

Christophe Leclerq (Fondation EurActiv) is the Founder of the EurActiv media network and of Fondation EurActiv PoliTech. After launching and managing EurActiv for 10 years, Leclercq now focuses on deepening its network, strategy, and external relations. EurActiv is a policy media network, produced in 12 languages in 12 capitals. It focuses on the input of industry, NGO’s and countries upstream of EU proposals, on 20 policy sections, complementing official websites and feeding national media. This network reaches more than half a million readers, mostly policy professionals and journalists.’Fondation EurActiv PoliTech guides the network, organises trainings and leads the social media and ‘EU Community’ dpt.Christophe Leclercq moderates conferences (eg Business Summit or Employment Week, Krynica Economic Conference), speaks at policy events (e.g. workshops of Fondation EurActiv Institute, various industry associations & universities). Previously, Mr Leclercq was an EU Commission official with DG Competition (coordinator for Information Society). Before that, he was a strategy consultant with McKinsey, founder of the EuroManagers job fair, and market research manager at Renault Deutschland.He studied political science (‘Sciences Po’ Paris), business administration (HEC Paris, also at NYU & Köln), and international relations (ULB, Brussels).

Beata Kolecka (Unit Foresight & Strategic Communication, EC) is the Head of Foresight & Strategic Communication Unit at the Secretariat General, European Commission.

Laurent Bontoux (Senior Foresight for Policy Expert, Joint Research Centre, EC) is Senior Foresight for Policy Expert at European Commission Joint Research Centre.