Derrick Gosselin

Derrick Philippe Boduin Gosselin (1956) is a Belgian engineer, economist and professor. Chairman of the Belgian Nuclear Research Center SCK CEN, Vice Chairman of the von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics and a fellow of the Royal Academy of Belgium (KVAB).

Education

Gosselin holds degrees in engineering, economics and business administration at Ghent University: a degree in international policy and defence sciences at Royal Higher Institute for Defence (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 full Professor at the School of Economics (Faculty of Economics and Business Administration) Ghent University and an associate fellow at Green Templeton College, University of Oxford and the Oxford Martin School.

He is an elected Fellow of both the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts.[1] and the Academia Europaea. He is a Hon. Fellow of High Hill College (2007–2009) at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.

He is 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) and President-Founder of Flanders Business School (1999–2004). His research focuses on decision making in highly complex and uncertain situations (Wicked problems, Futures Studies and Complexity theory). [2]

He is the Hon. Chairman (Senior Member) of the Oxford University Belgo-Luxembourgish Society OUBLS.[3] 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 Royal Higher Institute for Defence [4] and 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 [5] 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 Julien De Wilde and 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 Engie group.


References
  1. Royal Academies for Science and the Arts of Belgium
  2. Vision of evolutions in the petroleum market (2008) Gosselin D.P., Leysen J.
  3. http://oubls.webs.com/
  4. https://www.defence-institute.be/en/accueil-english/
  5. New Industrial Policy for Flanders

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