Who I am

I am Philippe Vandenbroeck. I have worked as a strategist for more than thirty years, largely with civil society organisations, foundations and public authorities. I trained as an agronomist, philosopher and urbanist at KU Leuven, and am close to completing doctoral research at Newrope, the Chair of Architecture and Urban Transformation at ETH Zurich, where I also teach. I co-founded the International Certified Future Strategist programme, hosted and administered by Kairos Future in Stockholm and now in its twelfth edition. I serve as an expert advisor to the European Public Health Alliance and as a member of the Board of Trustees of the International Futures Forum.

I am also a photographer and a poet. Over time I have come to regard this artistic work as a way of training my attention, since it asks me to stay with a landscape or a situation long enough for something to appear that I had not known to look for. That sensibility has increasingly found its way into my professional practice.