Derrick Gosselin
Derrick-Philippe, Baron Gosselin is a Belgian engineer and economist. He is chairman of the Belgian Nuclear Sciences Research Center SCK CEN and vice-chairman of the . He is on the board of the Von Karman Institute.
Education
Gosselin holds degrees in engineering, economics and business administration at Ghent University. He is an alumnus of the High Studies in Security and Defence at the Royal Higher Institute for Defence of the Royal Military Academy (Belgium) and graduated from the European Security and Defence College in advanced strategy. He further undertook postgraduate education at Vlerick Business School, University of Oxford and INSEAD.Academic career
Gosselin is an associate fellow of Green Templeton College, University of Oxford. He is a member of the Energy Steering Panel of the European Academies' Science Advisory Council. He is since 2021 professor emeritus at the School of Economics Ghent University.Gosselin is chairman of SCK CEN and vice-chairman of the board of governors of the Royal Higher Institute for Defence. He is on the board of trustees and former vice-chairman of the von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics.
He is an elected fellow of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts, the Royal Academy for Overseas Sciences and Academia Europaea. Furthermore, he is a member of the French National Air and Space Academy and the Royal Aeronautical Society.
He was a member of the Global Future Councils of the World Economic Forum and was a board member of the European Council of Applied Sciences and Engineering . He is the founder and former president of Flanders Business School.
His research focuses on decision-making in highly complex and uncertain situations.
He is the honorary chairman of the Oxford University Belgo-Luxembourgish Society OUBLS, Honorary associate fellow of the Oxford Martin School at the University of Oxford, and an honorary fellow of High Hill College at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.