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International Public Utility Foundation
for women's empowerment and equality
www.millennia2025-foundation.org
Marie-Anne Delahaut
Photo J.D.
v Experience
v 1989-...
Director of research (> 2020) associate (< 2021) at The Destree Institute, the Wallonia Policy Lab,
Head Information Society and Gender equality,
NGO official partner of UNESCO (consultative status) and in Special consultative status with the ECOSOC, United Nations Economic and Social Council, since 2012.
v 2012-...
President, founder & CEO of the Millennia2025 Women and Innovation Foundation, PUF, in Special consultative status with the ECOSOC, United Nations Economic and Social Council, since 2019;
Head and founder of Millennia2015, "An Action Plan for women's empowerment and equality", international foresight research process.
v 2018-...
Entrepreneur, system administrator, owner and web creator at MAD-Skills.eu
"Master, Apply and Dynamise your skills and talents online!".
v Awards
> Belgium: Outstanding Woman 2011 Award for "her work and her action in favor of equal opportunities between women and men" from the Belgian Federal Deputy Prime Minister, in charge of Employment and Equal Opportunities in Brussels;
> Namur: diploma of Namur Woman of the century in Namur in 2011;
> Europe: honored among the Women Inspiring Europe 2012 by the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE);
> Africa: Golden Star of Africa Award 2013 in Cotonou, Benin;
> World: included in the List of the world's top female futurists collected par Ross Dawson in 2015;
> Wallonia: Anne-Marie Lizin and Théroigne de Méricourt Prize in 2016 for "her actions in the struggle for women's empowerment and the determination of her daily commitment to equality between women and men" in Namur;
> World: Woman of the Decade in Community Leadership Award by the Women Economic Forum 2018 in The Hague.
> Wallonia: Winner of the Smart Cities call for projects organized by the Governement of Wallonia with the concrete action Wellin-Compétences, in line with MaVille-Compétences in 2019;
> France and Francophonie: labelled by UN Women France for Millennia2025 digintelles, Collective intelligence and Digital skills as drivers for empowerment, in 2020
v Membership
> Member of the Beijing+25 and Generation Equality Forum Advisory Working Group;
> Member of the Women's Major Advocacy Group "Creating a just & sustainable future";
> Member of the UCM (Union of Middle class), "Undertake and succeed together" as entrepreneur;
> Member of the Diane Network of Women entrepreneurs;
> Member of the Board of the Brussels-Area Node of the Millennium Project , translator and director of publication of the French version of the "State of the Future" 2005 and 2006;
> Member of the French-Speaking Women Council of Belgium,
> Member of the NGO-UNESCO Liaison Committee;
> Member of the Eagle Academy;
> Member of the All Ladies League (ALL) "Sisters Beyond Borders";
> Member of the Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID).
v Contact information
Millennia2025 Women and Innovation Foundation, PUF
v delahaut.marie-anne [at] millennia2025-foundation.org
v delahaut.marie-anne [at] millennia2025.org
v delahaut.marie-anne [at] institut-destree.eu
v delahaut.marie-anne [at] mad-skills.eu
v Institut Destrée / The Destree Institute
24, rue Saint-Nicolas, B 5000 Namur
Wallonia, Belgium
v Online
v www.millennia2025-foundation.org
v www.millennia2025-foundation.org/marie-anne_delahaut.html
v www.millennia2025-foundation.org/cv-images_marie-anne-delahaut.html
v https://twitter.com/millennia2015 @Millennia2025 #M2025
v www.facebook.com/Millennia2025
v http://be.linkedin.com/pub/marie-anne-delahaut/3/5b9/791/
v Publications
> DELAHAUT Marie-Anne, Together for equality!, ("Ensemble pour l'égalité !") honored by the Preface written by Ms Irina Bokova, then Director General of the UNESCO: "Foresight, international networks and concrete actions for women's empowerment and gender equality: Stocktaking 2007-2016 - Objective 2025", Namur, Millennia2025 Foundation - The Destree Institute, 608 pages, 2016;
> DELAHAUT Marie-Anne (dir), Prospective de l'Internet - Foresight of the Internet, Actes du colloque, Préface de Viviane REDING, Postface de Markus KUMMER, Namur, Institut Destrée, 544 pages (livret photos en couleurs), 2005;
> DELAHAUT Marie-Anne, "Gouvernance de l'Internet et SMSI : Accessibilité, transparence, démocratie, multilatéralisme et légitimité / Internet Governance and WSIS: Accessibility, transparency, democracy, multilateralism and legitimacy"; LEQUESNE Philippe, "30 ans d'Internet : d'Arpanet à IPv6 / 30 years of Internet : from Arpanet to IPv6"; CORNU Jean-Michel, "Quelles technologies pour demain ? / Which technologies for tomorrow ?"; Introduction to the DVD-Book Foresight and Governance of the internet / Prospective et gouvernance de l'internet, including interviews of Vinton G. CERF and of Louis POUZIN, Caen, Centre des Technologies nouvelles, ISI ingénium, ingénierie numérique et pédagogique et Institut Destrée / The Destree Institute, 2005;
> DELAHAUT Marie-Anne, Résumé structuré des documents de résultat du Sommet mondial sur la Société de l'Information (SMSI), Tunis, 2005;
> DELAHAUT Marie-Anne, Des sociétés de l'information centrées sur les besoins des êtres humains, Rapport du Sommet mondial sur la société de l'information, Genève, 2003;
> DELAHAUT Marie-Anne, Les progrès structurants des technologies de l'information et de la communication, dans "Mission Prospective Wallonie 21", "La Wallonie à l'écoute de la prospective, Dix tendances lourdes pour une prospective territoriale à l'horizon 2020", Namur, Institut Destrée, 2002;
> DELAHAUT Marie-Anne, for the Millennia2025 Women and Innovation Foundation & The Destree Institute, Statements to the Commission on the status of women, UN New York, 2010-2020;
> DELAHAUT Marie-Anne et SYLLA Coumba, Méthode prospective de Millennia2015 et Rapports présentés à l'UNESCO, Paris, 2009-2013;
> ...
v Short CV
Marie-Anne Delahaut is Director of research (> 2020) associated (< 2021) "Information society and Gender equality" at The Destree Institute - The Wallonia Policy Lab, which is a European Institute of Foresight Research, NGO official partner of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) (consultative status) and in Special consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) since 2012.
She is president, founder and CEO of the Millennia2025 Women and Innovation Foundation, international public utility foundation (PUF) whose goal is to implement the concrete actions of the Millennia2015 foresight research process for equality between women and men, empowerment and digital solidarity, NGO in special consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) since 2019.
=> www.millennia2025-foundation.org/index_en.html.
Bachelor in Education, qualified teacher of French and of English, she has developed, since 1987, an expertise in ICT systems and networks administration. As entrepreneur, she is creator-owner of MAD-SkMAD-Skills "Master, Apply and Dynamise your skills and talents online!"ills "Master, Apply and Dynamise your skills and talents online!".
=> www.mad-skills.eu/index.html
She participates in the UN World Summit on the information society since 2003. She has published several studies and a 544 pages book about "Foresight and governance of the internet" presented at the WSIS 2005 in Tunis. Member of the Internet Society (ISOC), she has created the Chapter Wallonia (ISOC Belgium - Wallonia) in 1998 and served as president between 2005 and 2009. She attended trainings in Foresight at Futuribles in Paris and with the Millennium Project in Washington. In 2014, she has successfully completed the Houston University professional Certificate in Strategic Foresight. In 2020, she obtained the Eagle Academy Marketing Mastery Certificate and continues its training cycle in 2021-2022.
She is a member of the Beijing+25 and Generation Equality Forum Advisory Working Group; of the Board of the Brussels-Area Node of the Millennium Project and director of publication of the French version of the "State of the Future" 2005 and 2006; member of the French-Speaking Women Council of Belgium, of the NGO-UNESCO Liaison Committee, of the Women's Major Group "Creating a just & sustainable future" and of the Eagle Academy.
In 2007, Marie-Anne Delahaut has created the foresight research process Millennia2015 "Women actors of development for the global challenges". With foresight as a method and the information society as context in solidarity, henceforth implemented by the Millennia2025 Women and Innovation Foundation through several international conferences: in Liege by The Destree Institute in 2008, in Paris at the Ecole des Mines in 2011, in Paris with the patronage of the UNESCO at its Headquarters in 2012 for Millennia2015 "An Action Plan for Women's Empowerment", at the University of Namur in 2015 for "Millennia2025 Solidarity-Women". The statements presenting the Millennia2025 concrete actions to the UN Women Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) are selected and published by UN Women since 2013, in the UN WSIS Stocktaking since 2008 and nominated to the UN WSIS Prize 2018 in Geneva. The statement "Millennia2025 MAD-Skills: “Master, Apply and Dynamize your skills to learn, share and work: women’s empowerment through innovation" was selected by UN Women presented to the UN CSW63 in 2019 in New York .
She is the author "Together for equality!", ("Ensemble pour l'égalité !") honored by the Preface written by Ms Irina Bokova, then Director General of the UNESCO. The 608 pages book published presents "Foresight, international networks and concrete actions for women's empowerment and gender equality: Stocktaking 2007-2016 - Objective 2025".
Marie-Anne Delahaut was awarded the title of "Outstanding Woman 2011" for "her work and her action in favor of equal opportunities between women and men" from the Belgian Federal Deputy Prime Minister, in charge of Employment and Equal Opportunities in Brussels and received the diploma of "Namur Woman of the century" in Namur in 2011. She has been selected among the "Women Inspiring Europe" 2012 by the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE). She has received the "Golden Star of Africa" Award 2013 in Cotonou, Benin. She is included in the List of the world's top female futurists collected par Ross Dawson in 2015. She was awarded the "Anne-Marie Lizin and Théroigne de Méricourt Prize" in 2016 for "her actions in the struggle for women's empowerment and the determination of her daily commitment to equality between women and men" in Namur. She was conferred with the award of "Woman of the Decade in Community Leadership" by the Women Economic Forum 2018 in The Hague. In 2019, she was among the winners of the Smart Cities call for projects organized by the Governement of Wallonia with the concrete action MaVille-Compétences. In 2020, Millennia2025 digintelles, "Collective intelligence and digital skills as drivers for empowerment", the ongoing foresight tool enforced during the pandemic, was labelled by UN Women France et Generation Equality Voices.
She lives in Wallonia, near the French border. Married, she has three sons, one daughter and four grandsons.
> More links: www.millennia2015.org/Marie_Anne_Delahaut
v Header photo by Marie-Anne Delahaut : UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, 30.06.2015.
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Millennia2025 Women and Innovation Foundation
Organization in Special Consultative Status
with the United Nations Economic and Social Council
(ECOSOC) since 2019
