Derrick-Philippe Gosselin

Derrick-Philippe Gosselin (Belgium) was born in 1956. He is Chairman of SCK CEN, Vice-Chairman of the Belgian Royal Higher Institute for Defense (RHID) and a member of the Board of Governors of the Von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics (VKI). He is an Associate Fellow of Green Templeton College (University of Oxford) since 2007 and an Honorary Associate Fellow of the Oxford Martin School (2006-2022). Since 2021 he is professor emeritus at Ghent University, School of Economics. He specializes in complex (long-term) decision making in turbulent and uncertain environments, applied to technology, innovation and energy.

He holds M.S. degrees in engineering, an M.S. in technology management and a Ph.D. in economics. He also holds degrees in international politics and defense sciences from RHID and ESDC. He is an alumnus of Ghent University, INSEAD and the University of Oxford. He began his career in 1984 at the Belgian Office for Science Policy (Energy & Technology) (now BELSPO). He joined Alcatel-Alsthom in 1990 and the Suez Group, now Engie, from 2002 to 2009.

Gosselin is a Fellow of the Royal Belgian Academy of Sciences (KVAB), an Associate Fellow of the Royal Academy for Overseas Sciences (RAOS) and a member of Academia Europaea.