> Steering Committee 2012 of the Millennia2025 Foundation

Europe

Hommage - Tribute

Eleonora Barbieri Masini

Membership in Professional Associations

World Futures Studies Federation (WFSF);

International Sociological Association (ISA);

Italian Sociological Association (AIS);

Club of Rome;

World Academy of Art and Science (WAAS);

World Wildlife Fund (WWF).

Roma, Italy.

Main activities

Professor Emeritus of Futures Studies (Social and Human aspects) and Human Ecology at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Gregorian University, Rome (1976-2004) and at the University of Trieste, Faculty of Political Sciences;

International Studies in Gorizia, Futures Studies (1996-1998);

Secretary General of World Futures Studies Federation (1975-1980), President (1980-1990), Chair of Executive Council (1990-1993);

Coordinator of the Project "The Futures of Cultures" for UNESCO (1991-1994);

Member of the Executive Council of the Inter University Center at Dubrovnik (1984-1996);

Chairman of the Futures Research Committee of the International Sociological Association (1978-1997);

President of the World Association for Science and Arts for Europe from October( 1991 1995);

Coordinator of the Network WIN (Women's International Network) Emergency and Solidarity, sponsored by UNESCO and initiated with Prof. Rita Levi Montalcini, Nobel Prize for Neurobiology (1986-2005);

Consultant to many Intergovernmental Organizations such as United Nations University, UNESCO and UNDP. 

Some publications:

Women, Households and Change, UN University Press, Tokyo, 1991;

Why Futures Studies?, Grey Seal Books, London, 1993;

The futures of Cultures , UNESCO, BEP, Paris, 1994;

Rethinking Futures Studies, in Ziauddin Sardar, ed. Rescuing our Futures, Adamantine Press, Twickenham, England, 1999;

Penser le Futur, Dunod, Paris, 2000.

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Micheline Briclet 

Vice présidente du Réseau mondial des Femmes Chefs d'Entreprises (FCEM)

Présidente de l'Association belge des Femmes Chefs d'Entreprises (FCEB-VVB)

Bruxelles

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Cornelia Daheim 

Cornelia Daheim is Managing Director Foresight Consulting for Z_punkt GmbH The Foresight Company. Ms. Daheim studied general and comparative literature, English and psychology at the University of Essen and at King's College, London; completed her M.A. with distinction and won an award for “outstanding graduation”.

She has been with Z_punkt since 2000, working on future studies projects for institutions such as the Federal Ministry of Education and Research and various national and multinational companies, including Philips, Bayer, TUI, BASF, or RWE.

Cornelia Daheim has founded and chaired the German Node of The Millennium Project and the Planning Committee for the German Node which brings together the relevant actors from the German futures field. She also is correspondent of the European Foresight Monitoring Network (EFMN).

Essen, Germany

Cornelia Daheim's general work focus is on:

- Futures studies and its methods, particularly scenario methods;

- Regional development, futures studies approaches and usability for regional development;

- Socio-cultural and technological change and its relevance for strategic decision and innovation (Demographic change, societal change, lifestyles, identity);

- Connecting futures knowledge to today's actions and challenges;

- Interdisciplinary approaches;

- International dimension of futures studies.

Before joining Z_punkt, Ms. Daheim held a number of posts at the University of Essen for four years during her studies, e.g., managing the linguistic agency and the "LAUD" journal, and as a research assistant at the Institute of German Studies / Medieval Studies. She also contributed to several scientific projects and supervised students and tutorials.  

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Marie-Anne Delahaut

Head of Millennia2015

President and founder of the Millennia2025 Women and Innovation Foundation;

Director of research at The Destree Institute, Head of the Information society Unit;

Member of the Board of the Brussels Area Node of The Millennium Project ;

Honorary president of the Wallonia - Belgium Chapter of the Internet Society.

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Richard Delmas 

Administrateur principal, Commission européenne,

Direction Générale Société de l'information et médias

Bruxelles

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Nicole Dewandre 

Nicole Dewandre is Head of the Sustainable development Unit in the Directorate General for Research.

She studied physics, engineering and economics at the University of Louvain, operations research at the University of California (Berkeley) and philosophy at the Free University of Brussels (ULB).

She entered the European Commission in 1983, working as a scientific officer in the Directorate General for Research, in the field of strategic issues for technology policy, linking societal concerns with technology policy until 1986. She became a member of the Central Advisory Group and then the Forward Study Unit, dealing with strategic analysis of research and industrial policy for the President of the Commission (1986-1992).

In 1993, she supported the Belgian Presidency of the European Union in the areas of industry, energy, and consumer councils. Following this, she worked as a principal administrator in social sciences research in the Directorate-General for Research.

From 1997 onwards, she has been developing the Women and Science activities in DG Research.

Brussels

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Dilek Elveren

Née à Bruxelles, Dilek Elveren est d'origine turque, installée à Paris depuis 1993. Diplômée en Droit et en Science politique, elle obtient également un Master de recherche en "Relations internationales, politique et diplomatie" en 2004 à l'Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne. Ses recherches portent alors sur les organisations internationales et les stratégies de négociation dans les contextes multilatéraux, ainsi que la diversité culturelle.

Dilek Elveren a travaillé en tant que consultante pour l'Unité "Egalité des genres et développement" du Secteur des Sciences sociales de l'UNESCO, notamment sur les questions de genre dans les contextes de conflit et post-conflit. Après avoir été chargée de projet sur les violences faites aux femmes pour Médecins du Monde, elle rejoint l'Organisation internationale de la Francophonie en décembre 2007, en tant que responsable de projets au sein de l'Unité de l'Egalité des genres pour le développement de la Direction de la planification stratégique.

En parallèle, elle a le statut d'évaluatrice "genre et développement" pour la Croix-Rouge française.

Elle est l'auteure de deux articles : "Les femmes dans le système judiciaire en Turquie" (UNESCO, publication prévue pour 2009) et "The Making of an International Convention : Culture and Free Trade in Global Area", (co-écrit avec Dr. Valentine M. Moghadam, publication prévue pour  octobre 2008, dans "Review of International Studies").  

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Eva Fabry

Director of the European Centre for Women and Technology (ECWT);

Chair of the Global Women and Technology (GWT) Network;

European Affairs Manager Papirbredden Innovasjon, Drammen, Norway;

Secretariat of the ECWT;

Drammen, Norway.

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Nadezhda Gaponenko

Dr. Gaponenko has 25 years experience in futures studies, S&T policy, innovation & environmental policy for government, international organizations, and private sector. She is the author over 10 monographs, and over 100 articles published in Russian, English and German. Mrs. Nadezhda Gaponenko coordinated and contributed to about 100 projects carried out for the Russian and international organizations (OECD, UNEP, UNESCO, World Water Counsel, Millennium project). She was the organizer, chair of sessions and key speakers at many Russian and international conferences (France, Australia, U.S., the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Hungary, Finland, Germany, Japan, Belgium, and the like).

Currently Mrs. Gaponenko is the head of department at the Center of Science Development Study under the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences. She is Corresponding member of the Russian Academy  of Natural Sciences and scientific secretary of the department of Forecasting & Cycles of this Academy (responsible for the international collaboration).

Moscow, Russia

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Agnès Hubert 

Conseillère du Président de la Commission européenne José Manuel Barroso, en charge des Questions de Genre, Droits Fondamentaux, Emploi et Politiques Sociales, Cohérence Interne/Externe, Bureau des Conseillers de Politique européenne (BEPA).

Bruxelles

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Hommage - Tribute

Anne-Marie Lizin  

Sénatrice (Sénat de Belgique), Membre du Collège des Questeurs, Ancienne présidente du Sénat fédéral belge (2004-2007);

Vice-présidente de l'Assemblée parlementaire de l'Organisation pour la sécurité et la coopération en Europe (OSCE);

Présidente de la Synergie Wallonie du Conseil des Femmes francophones de Belgique (CFFB);

Huy, Wallonie

Anne-Marie Lizin est décédée le 17 octobre 2015.

Parmi de nombreux autres, Marie-Anne Delahaut lui a rendu hommage.

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Françoise Massit-Folléa 

Présidente du Comité scientifique de Millennia2015;

Responsable scientifique du programme Vox Internet, Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris

Paris, France

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Nancy Pascall

BSc, MA, MBA

Gender Policy Coordinator

The European Commission

DG Information Society and Media

Directorate C – C1:  Lisbon Strategies and i2010

Nancy Pascall was born in Greece, studied in England and now lives and works in Belgium.  She joined the European Commission in 1984.  Since 1992 she has been dealing with gender issues and in particular, the integration and participation of women in the Information Society.

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Marianne Poumay 

Director of LabSET-ULg (35 people research and development unit).

Coordinator, together with D. Leclercq, of the Master in Higher Education Pedagogy (60 ECTS, ULg, Belgium, “Master Complémentaire”).

Specialized in higher education instructional design,innovations and eLearning. 

Chargée de cours à l'Université de Liège;

Directrice du Laboratoire de Soutien à l'Enseignement par Télématique (LabSET);

Responsable du Portail e-learning de l'ULg et du Master complémentaire en Pédagogie de l'Enseignement supérieur (Formasup).

Liège, Wallonia

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Viviane Reding 

Commissaire européenne responsable de la société de l'information et des médias;

Bruxelles - Luxembourg

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Pietro Sicuro 

Directeur de l'Institut de la Francophonie numérique de l'Organisation internationale de la Francophonie.

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Simone Susskind

1986-1996: President of the Jewish Secular Community Center (Brussels).

1988:   “Give Peace a Chance”: first public encounter between Israeli and Palestinian personalities (Brussels);

1989: “Give Peace a Chance - Women Speak Out”: first public dialogue between Palestinian and Israeli women (Brussels). The process led to the creation, in 1994, of the "Jerusalem Link - A Women's Joint Venture for Peace";

1994: " Mediterranean and European Women's Conference ", (Marrakech);

1995: Founding of “Actions in the Mediterranean”;

1996: "Give Peace a Chance - Women Speak out in the Balkans", Brussels;

1997: "Give Peace a Chance - Women Speak out in Cyprus”, Brussels;

2000: "Euro-Mediterranean Conference on the Promotion of Women in Economic Development", Brussels;

2003-2004: Develop a friendship network between Belgian and Iranian women;

2005-present: Initiator of the project “Women in societies in transition” (with Iranian, Turkish, Moroccan and Belgian women);

2005-present: Member of the Steering Committee of the “International Women's Commission for a Just and Sustainable Palestinian-Israeli Peace“ (IWC);

2005-present: Vice-President of “Music Fund”.

1991   Elected "Woman of the Year in Belgium".

2000   Doctor Honoris Causa of the Free University of Brussels.

2008   Citizenship prize of the Foundation P&V.

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Coumba Sylla  

Chargée de recherche au pôle Société de l'information de l'Institut Destrée pour Millennia 2015,

Responsable de la communauté Millennia2015 Sénégal,

Trésorière de la Fondation Millennia2025 Femmes et Innovation, FUPu,

Research fellow at The Destree Institute Information Unit for Millennia 2015,

Head of Millennia2015 Senegal community,

Treasurer of the Millennia2025 Women and Innovation Foundation, PUF

Coumba Sylla est chargée de recherche au pôle Société de l'information de l'institut Destrée.

Coumba Sylla is a Research fellow to the Destree Institute Information Unit.  

She works with and assists the director of research of this unit, Marie-Anne Delahaut, especially on Millennia2015, “women actors of development for the global challenges”,  foresight research process for equality between women and men, respect for human rights, promotion of the human capital and of digital solidarity in order to empower women.

After studying foreign languages: Spanish and English at the University of Rheims and Lille 3, she obtained a Master of European Communications and Exchanges at the University of Bretagne-Sud of Lorient. She chose that course of study to better understand the specificities of the implementation of international projects.

Aware of the situation of women and above all of their capacities, their willpower and their resoluteness for their own realization, she joined The Destree Institute team at the Information Society unit after an internship. She contributes to the development Millennia2015 research activities and concretes actions for women's empowerment.

She is head of Millennia2015 Senegal community and treasurer of the Millennia2025 "Women and Innovation" Foundation, foundation of public interest whose goal is to realize the activities of the Millennia2015 foresight research process for equality between women and men, respect for human rights, promotion of the human capital and of digital solidarity in order to empower women.

Coumba Sylla is French of Senegalese descent and lives in Namur.

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Véronique Thouvenot

International expert at the European center for humanitarain health (CESH)

Scientist, World Health Organization

MBA, Ph.D, evaluation expert at the ITU and the WHO in eHealth, eLearning and Telemedicine

Scientific director, founder and chief operative officer (COO) of the Millennia2025 Women and Innovation Foundation

Head of Millennia2015 "Women and eHealth"(WeHealth) International Working Group and of Millennia2015 Global network "Women and Telemedicine" (WeTelemed);

Director of the Millennia2025 WeObservatory for women and eHealth.

Lyon, France

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Magdeleine Willame-Boonen

Licenciée en philologie romane, Agrégée de l'enseignement secondaire supérieur.

Présidente du Conseil des Femmes francophones de Belgique (CFFB);

Sénatrice honoraire;

Carrière

Après une carrière de Professeur de français en dernière année du secondaire, elle a été active dans les mouvements associatifs féminins.

Elle a été Vice-Présidente des femmes du PSC de 1983 à 1989.

Elle a été députée au Parlement de la Région bruxelloise de 1989 à 1999 et membre du Sénat de 1995 à 2003.

Au Sénat, elle a été chef de groupe de son parti de 1996 à 2001.

Bruxelles

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