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Grégoire Roos is currently serving as Head of Political Dialogue & Policy Innovation at the BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt, supervising strategic engagement with governments, parliaments, think tanks and international organisations (with focus on US, Europe and Asia) and coordinating the Foundation´s thought leadership in the geopolitics of socio-economic transformation.
He is currently managing the integration of the Foundation´s major programmes (urban innovation, future of democracy, climate policy and international cooperation) into a larger policy innovation practice. Mr. Roos is also launching a new initiative together with the founding dean of the Center on Global Energy Policy (CGEP) at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), that will focus on the geopolitics of climate and transatlantic trade & energy cooperation for climate action.
Prior to joining the BMW Foundation, Mr. Roos worked as a geopolitical analyst (UNDP Regional Service Centre in Africa and in the financial industry), focusing on global political and technological trends and their impact on markets and society. This covered, amongst others, the implications of the Fourth Industrial Revolution for the financial industry and global trade, its impact on global security and regional cooperation, and its repercussions on climate change mitigation strategies.
Committed to advancing cross-generational dialogue, Mr. Roos has been conducting discussions with personalities from politics (Nobel laureates Lech Walesa and Frederik de Klerk), defence (former NATO SACEUR Adm. James Stavridis), the academia (Niall Ferguson and Martha Nussbaum) and science (Jane Goodall).
Mr. Roos is also a reserve officer in the French Navy, serving as Political Advisor to the Navy Staff in the Joint Operations Command, and is a member of several leadership groups (World Economic Forum´s Global Shapers, St. Gallen Symposium´s Leaders of Tomorrow…).
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