Grégoire Roos
Grégoire Roos
Head of Political Dialogue & Policy Innovation
BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt, France
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.
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.
Mr. Roos has also served as special advisor for Social & Human Sciences to the President of the French Commission to UNESCO, in which capacity he coordinated portfolios related to the role of the arts and social sciences in post-conflict reconstruction and peace consolidation.
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 a reserve officer in the French Navy and a member of several international leadership groups (World Economic Forum´s Global Shapers, St. Gallen Symposium´s Leaders of Tomorrow…).
Thursday 11
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16.55 - 17.25
The World According to Germany: From Reunification to Reassessment
Artemis Hall | European Cultural Centre of Delphi
Liberal stability and political optimism that followed German unification and the end of European division in 1989 is now replaced by a status quo plagued by populism, unorthodox third powers and geopolitical hostility that has undermined peace even in Europe’s very territory. In response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Germany launched a major policy shift regarding defense spending. How should German foreign policy’s pillars, aims and instruments be further reassessed in a world in conflict?