Derrick Gosselin
Derrick-Philippe Gosselin | |
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| 10th Chairman
Belgian Nuclear Sciences Research Center SCK CEN | |
| Assumed office December 2013 | |
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| Born | 12 September 1956 Belgium |
| Alma mater | Ghent University University of Oxford INSEAD |
Derrick-Philippe, Baron Gosselin[1](1956) is aBelgianengineerandeconomist.He is chairman of the Belgian Nuclear Sciences Research CenterSCK CENand vice-chairman of theRoyal Higher Institute for Defence(RHID).[2]He is on the board of theVon Karman Institute.
Education
[edit]Gosselin holds degrees inengineering,economicsandbusiness administrationatGhent Universityand a degree in international policy and defence sciences at the Royal Higher Institute for Defence (RHID) of theRoyal Military Academy (Belgium)and graduated from theEuropean Security and Defence Collegein advanced strategy. He undertook postgraduate education atVlerick Business School,University of Oxford(Green Templeton College) andINSEAD.
Academic career
[edit]Gosselin is an associate fellow ofGreen Templeton College,University of Oxford.He is a member of the Energy Steering Panel of theEuropean Academies' Science Advisory Council(EASAC).[3]He is since 2021professor emeritusof strategy at the School of Economics (Faculty of Economics and Business Administration)Ghent University.
Gosselin is chairman ofSCK CENand vice-chairman of the board of governors of the Royal Higher Institute for Defence (RHID).[4]He is on the board of trustees and former vice-chairman of thevon Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics.
He is an elected fellow of theRoyal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts(KVAB),[5]theRoyal Academy for Overseas Sciences(RAOS) andAcademia Europaea.Furthermore, he is a member of the French National Air and Space Academy (Académie de l'air et de l'espace(AAE)) and theRoyal Aeronautical Society(RAeS).
He was a member of the Global Future Councils of theWorld Economic Forumand was a board member of theEuropean Council of Applied Sciences and Engineering(Euro-CASE) (2008–2011). He is the founder and former president ofFlanders Business School(1999–2004). His research focuses on decision-making in highly complex and uncertain situations[6](Wicked problems,Futures StudiesandComplexity theory).[7]
He is the honorary chairman (Senior Member) of the Oxford University Belgo-Luxembourgish Society OUBLS,[8]Honorary associate fellow of theOxford Martin School(2007–2022) at the University of Oxford, and a honorary fellow of High Hill College (Hogenheuvel College) (2007–2009) at theKatholieke Universiteit Leuven.
Government career
[edit]He is honorary chief of staff (2009–2012) to 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 for the Agency for Innovation by Science and Technology of Flanders (IWT). At the beginning of his career, he worked as an attaché in the Department for Science Policy Planning, nowBELSPO,in the Office of the Belgian Prime Minister.
Business career
[edit]Together withJulien De WildeandJohn J. Goossens,Gosselin joined theAlcatel-Alsthomgroup in 1990 as a member of the executive committee. From 2002 to 2009 he was executive vice president of the international energy branch of Suez, nowEngiegroup. He started his business career atArthur Andersen& Co.
References
[edit]- ^"Coat of Arms GOSSELIN".vandesselheraldiek.be.
- ^"RHID - Home".defence-institute.be.
- ^"EASAC - Energy Committee Members".easac.eu - Science Advice for the Benefit of Europe.
- ^"RHID - Board of Directors".defence-instituter.be.
- ^"RASAB - Home".rasab.be.
- ^"Thinking futures".Uitgeverij Lannoo.11 August 2015.
- ^"Vision of evolutions in the petroleum market (2008) Gosselin D.P., Leysen J."(PDF).
- ^"OUBLS-Home".OUBLS.webs.
- ^"New Industrial Policy for Flanders".
Sources
[edit]- De Standaard 26 November 2008 - Klassieke managers kunnen crisis niet aan
- Knowledge@Wharton 22 July 2009: Eyes Wide Open: Embracing Uncertainty through Scenario Planning
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