Professor Baron Derrick Gosselin

Professor Baron Derrick-Philippe Gosselin is an Associate Fellow of Green Templeton College, University of Oxford. His research centres on strategic foresight and futures thinking – complex, long-term decision-making in turbulent and uncertain environments – in both business and government.

He has chaired the Belgian Nuclear Research Centre (SCK CEN), which develops radiopharmaceutical cancer treatments and advanced small modular reactors, since 2013, and serves as Vice-Chairman of the Belgian Royal Higher Institute for Defence and on EASAC’s Energy Steering Panel. He served on NATO’s Advisory Board on Emerging and Disruptive Technologies (2022–2025).

He is Emeritus Professor at Ghent University’s School of Economics, where he held the Chair of Strategy & International Technology Marketing (2001–2021), and was an Oxford Martin Associate Fellow at the University of Oxford (2007–2023). He is a member of Academia Europaea, a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts (KVAB), and a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology. He was appointed Grand Officer of the Order of Leopold by HM King Philippe of the Belgians.

Contact: derrick.gosselin@gtc.ox.ac.uk