Grégoire Roos, Board Trustee

Grégoire Roos is currently serving as Head of Political Dialogue & Policy Innovation at the BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt, a German-based foundation committed to advancing responsible leadership and a sustainable socio-economic transformation in a context of accelerating climate change and shifting geopolitical order.

In this capacity, Mr. Roos is supervising strategic engagement with governments, parliaments, think tanks and international organisations (with focus on US, Europe and Asia) and is coordinating the Foundation´s agenda in the geopolitics of socio-economic transformation and energy transition.

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 public sector reform, public-private cooperation for development, macro trends and their impact on markets and society. His portfolios 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 and adaptation strategies.

In parallel with his main business occupation, Mr. Roos served as Special Advisor for Social & Human Sciences to the President of the French Commission to UNESCO before representing France as Youth Ambassador to UNESCO.

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).