Background
Gosselin, Derrick-Philippe was born on September 12, 1956 in Menen, Belgium. Son of Joseph Arthur and Lea Genevieve (Van Assche) Gosselin.
Gosselin, Derrick-Philippe was born on September 12, 1956 in Menen, Belgium. Son of Joseph Arthur and Lea Genevieve (Van Assche) Gosselin.
Master of Science in Electrical Engineering, State University of Ghent, Belgium, 1982; Master of Science in Management and Industrial Engineering, State University of Ghent, 1984; Master of Business Administration, European Institute of Business Administration (Institut Européen d'Administration des Affaires), Fontainebleau, France, 1995.
Chairman of the Belgian Nuclear Research Center SCK-National Executive Committee and a fellow of the Royal Academy of Belgium. He is on the Board of Governors of the Royal Higher Institute for Defence and was appointed in 2013 Honorary Consul of France to Belgium. He was Head of Cabinet of the Minister-President of the Flemish Government.
Author and architect of the New Industrial Policy for Flanders including the setup of an Industrial Transformations Fund (TINA).
During that period he was also government commissioner of the Agency for Innovation by Science and Technology of Flanders (IWT). He started his career as attaché for Innovation and Technology at the department for Scientific Policy within the Office of the Belgium Prime Minister.
Professor at the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Ghent University. He is an elected Fellow of both the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts. and the Academia Europaea.
He was Fellow of Hogenheuvel College (2007-2009) at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.
His research focuses on decision making in highly complex and uncertain situations (Wicked problems, Futures Studies, Complexity theory) The so-called Futures en Foresight research based on strategic scenario planning or strategic conversations. He worked with Sir David King (scientist), Lord Martin Rees, Ian Goldin, Steve Rayner, John Lennox and Peter Piot. Most recent book (2016): "Thinking Futures: Strategy at the edge of complexity and uncertainty".
From 2002 till 2009: Suez/GDF-Suez/Engie as executive vice president of the international energy branch.
He is a member of the Global Agenda Councils of the World Economic Forum and was an associate fellow of the Institute for Science, Innovation and Society (InSIS), Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford (2005-2009). Board member of the European Council of Applied Sciences and Engineering (Euro-Computer-Aided Software Engineering) (2008-2011) and President of Flanders Business School (1999-2003). He is the Senior Member of the Oxford University Belgo-Luxembourgish Society OUBLS. Jointed with Baron Julien De Wilde and Baron John Jay Goossens the Alcatel group in 1990 as a member of the executive committee.
Married Belinda Adelaide (de Saedeleer) G., October 04, 1980. Children: Anne-France, Marie-Charlotte.