Derrick Gosselin

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Derrick-Philippe Boduin Gosselin (1956) is a Belgian engineer, economist and professor. Chairman of the Belgian Nuclear Research Center SCK CEN and the European Corporate Security Association (ECSA),[1] Vice Chairman of the von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics, and a fellow of the Royal Academy of Belgium[2] (KVAB) and the Royal Academy for Overseas Sciences (RAOS).

Education[]

Gosselin holds degrees in engineering, economics and business administration at Ghent University: a degree in international policy and defence sciences at [3] (RHID) of the Royal Military Academy (Belgium). He undertook postgraduate education at Vlerick Business School, University of Oxford (Green Templeton College), London Business School, Harvard Business School and INSEAD.

Academic career[]

Gosselin is a senior full Professor at the School of Economics (Faculty of Economics and Business Administration) Ghent University, an associate fellow of Green Templeton College and Oxford Martin School, at the University of Oxford and Member of the Energy Steering Panel of the European Academies' Science Advisory Council (EASAC).[4]

He is an elected Fellow of both the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts (KVAB),[5] the Royal Academy for Overseas Sciences and Academia Europaea. He is a Hon. Fellow of (2007–2009) at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.

He was a member of the Global Future Councils of the World Economic Forum and was a board member of the European Council of Applied Sciences and Engineering (Euro-CASE) (2008–2011). He is the Founder and former President of (1999–2004). His research focuses on decision making in highly complex and uncertain situations (Wicked problems, Futures Studies and Complexity theory). [6]

He is the Hon. Chairman (Senior Member) of the Oxford University Belgo-Luxembourgish Society OUBLS.[7] He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 2017.

His most recent book (Lannoo 2016): "Thinking Futures: Strategy at the edge of complexity and uncertainty".

Government career[]

Gosselin is chairman of SCK CEN, member of the board of governors of the [8] and on the board of trustees and former vice-chairman of the von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics.

He is Hon. Head of Cabinet (2009–2012) of the prime minister of the Flemish government. Author and architect of the New Industrial Policy for Flanders [9] including the setup of an Industrial Transformations Fund (PMV-TINA). He was also a government commissioner of the Agency for Innovation by Science and Technology of Flanders (IWT). Gosselin started his career at the department for Scientific Policy Planning (now Belspo) within the Office of the Belgian Prime Minister.

Business career[]

Together with baron Julien De Wilde and baron John J. Goossens, Gosselin joined the Alcatel-Lucent group in 1990 as a member of the executive committee. From 2002 till 2009 he was executive vice president of the international energy branch of Engiegroup.

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