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Derrick Philippe
GOSSELIN, (°1956) is since 2009 head of cabinet of the Prime Minister of the Government of Flanders (Belgium).
He began his career as attaché in the office
of the Belgian Prime Minister before joining Arthur Andersen & Co. in
1984. From 1990 till 2001, he worked for the Alcatel-Alsthom
group were he held various junior
and senior executive positions. As of 1999, he was vice president
marketing and business development for Northern & Central Europe (including Japan and Korea) and
chairman of the European strategic marketing special task force.
He jointed
the Suez group in 2002. He was, from 2003 till 2007, executive vice president and chief strategy officer of Suez Energy International,
a +$15 billion global energy and trading company and one of the four business lines of the Suez Group
before the merger with Gaz de France.
He was from 2003-2006 as well board member of
several Suez companies in USA, Peru, Oman,.. and was during 2003-2004 in
charge
of a special marketing task force at Suez group level. He was appointed
group senior vice president development and strategy of Suez Group
(Paris HQ) in 2007 till the merger with GDF in 2008 when the group
became GDF Suez. He introduced as of 2004 new decision process linking
strategy development - risk management - innovation management based on
strategic scenario planning increasing the quality of decision taking in
turbulent environments.
Academic Mandates or Functions
Professor
of International Business Marketing at Ghent
University [FEB]
Ordinary Fellow
of the Royal Belgian Academy of Sciences
[RASAB] -
Class of Technical Sciences
[CTS][CAETS]
& Belgian academy representative to the European Council of Academies of Applied Sciences, Technologies and Engineering [Euro-Case]
Associate Fellow,
Green-Templeton College [GTC],
University of Oxford.
Associate Fellow, Oxford Institute for Science, Innovation and
Society [INSIS], Saïd Business School, University of Oxford (part of the Oxford Martin School [OMS])
Member of the editorial review board of:
Industrial Marketing Management
[IMM], the
Journal
of Business and Industrial Marketing [JBIM]
and the European Journal of Intelligence Studies [EJIS]
Fellow of the International Academy of
Management [IAM]
Professional Memberships
Advisor on
Foreign Trade [CCE]
to
the Minister
of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade of Belgium, since 1997
Member
of the General Council of the Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School
[VLGMS]
Fellow of The Institution of Engineering
and Technology [IET] (UK)
Fellow of the Chartered Institute of
Marketing [CIM] (UK)
Senior
Member of
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers [IEEE]
(USA)
Past Mandates or Functions
Associate
professor of Marketing and Communication at the Royal
Military Academy [RMA]
(2003-2008)
President of the
Association of Advisors on Foreign Trade of Belgium (1999-2004)
Chairman of
the Europe-Asia committee of the
European Federation of Employers [UNICE]
(1996-1999)
Honorary
Fellow
of Hogenheuvel
College [HOC]
(Catholic University of Leuven) (B) (2006-2009)
Member of the Economic Circle of the King Baudouin Foundation [KBS/FRB]
(1988-1993)
President
of the Board of Directors of Flanders Business School [FBS]
(1998-2003)
Member
of the Board of Directors of Ghent University (2004-2005)
Education
Ph.D. in Economic Sciences - Ghent University
M.Sc. in
Management Science (industrial engineering) - Vlerick Leuven Ghent
Management School
[VLGMS]
M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering (control engineering) - Ghent University
He
studied
as well management
science at Harvard [HBS],
London [LBS],
INSEAD,
Oxford (Green Templeton [GTC], Saïd Business School [SBS])
E-mail: Derrick.Gosselin (add) UGent.be
(Photo
taken at the Divinity School, University of Oxford - Oxford 2009. (left):
Lord (Martin) Rees of Ludlow, PRS (right): Derrick
Gosselin
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