Hindsight.
Insight.
Foresight.

With a background in diplomacy and international technical assistance, spanning from natural resources management in Africa to national spatial master planning, over institutionalising foresight in government and heading Luxembourg Strategy  at the Ministry of the Economy, Pascale Junker has advised governments and companies at the highest level on how to change, plan and act for a better future.

Today her company Pascale Junker Foresight assists leaders in applying systemic foresight within planetary and human boundaries in their work and worldviews.

Jelmer Hoogzaad, founder of shifting paradigms, is a climate
change mitigation and circular economy expert, supporting organisations with identifying and developing circular mitigation
options. His systems’ or metabolic analysis places a company or jurisdiction in a broader system of material flows and stocks.
Subsequent data visualisations support the development of a joint vision of a circular, low-carbon future, while a structured
dialogue between decision-makers allows them to define their own role in accelerating the transition.

Carina Stöttner – Sociologist and Futurist / CEO of the Futurewise Company

The future is the daily business of this sociologist and entrepreneur. At 27, she founded a think tank; at 31, her second company, the Futurewise Company. With this Foresight Consultancy, she and her team support executives and managing directors during times of transformation — helping them unlock new global growth opportunities for their business, make better-informed decisions about the future, and develop future scenarios for their organization.

Her research focuses range from the future of industry and artificial intelligence to evolving customer needs. She has published two books (“Klimaneutral,” Campus Verlag | “Zukunft der KI im Talentmanagement,” BoD) as well as several widely recognized studies on the future. A sought-after speaker, she regularly appears at corporate events, international industry gatherings, and economic summits.

Dominique Blariaux, is an Agricultural Engineer (Msc) working as a senior Post Disaster Needs Assessment (PDNA) expert for the European Union’s Instrument for Stability and Peace. In her position, she is assisting, together with the World Bank’s Global Facility for Disaster Risk Reduction and UNDP, countries affected by crisis with identifying, developing and implementing socio-economic impact assessments and identifying recovery activities through PDNA processes.

She has 30 years of experience working with Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) issues, such as the support and training in post disaster risk management, preparation of country programmes and integrated proposals for climate change/adaptation linked to reducing disaster risks and building resilience, government-level capacity development in integrating Climate Change and Disaster Risk Management in policy, planning, extension services and practices, among others. She will bring invaluable knowledge to leading risk analysis and planning for context-specific transformation and long-term resilience preparedness.