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Philippe Destatte

Philippe Destatte is a Belgian historian (University of Liège, 1980) specialized in futures study and particularly foresight. He was born in Charleroi (Wallonia)on October 28, 1954. Since 1987, he is the Director General of the Destree Institute (European think-tank and research centre in Wallonia, Belgium). He is an Associate Professor at Paris Diderot University, where he is in charge of the Foresight course. He acquired skills in foresight both in Paris (mostly Futuribles of which he is a board member), in the United States (Certificated in Strategic Foresight Houston University), as well by working on the field, in European Regions and particularly in Wallonia.

Philippe Destatte combines twenty years of regional development strategic policy tools experience, with theoretical analysis in the fields of governance, evaluation, innovation systems and societal paradigm shifts analysis, as well as of foresight. He worked as an expert for the OECD, the World Bank, the European Commission and several governments. In 2003-2004, Philippe Destatte was involved in the Blueprints for Foresight Actions in the Regions High Level Expert Group (EC DG Research K2) as coach of the Transvision Blueprint. He chairs the European Regional Foresight College, created at the initiative of the French Republic (DATAR-DIACT). Since 2003 he has also served as Chair of the Brussels Area Node of the Millennium Project (created by the American Council for United Nations University) and has organized, in 2005 in Louvain-la-Neuve, a joint conference with DG Research K2 Unit untitled The Futures of Europeans in the Global Knowledge Society. Philippe Destatte was a member of the Experts Team of the DG Regio to prepare The Guidelines for Cohesion Policy (2007- 2013). Member of the Board of the Mutual Learning Platform launched in 2005 by three DGs of the Commission (Research, Regional Policy and Enterprise) and the Committee of the Regions, he has coached the Foresight Activities in that framework. He co-authored, with Dr Günter Clar (SEZ-Stuttgart), the Regional Foresight report, Boosting Regional Potential (2006).

Philippe DESTATTE, L'identité wallonne, Essai sur l'affirmation politique de la Wallonie, XIX-XXème siècles, Charleroi, Institut Destrée, 1997. Philippe DESTATTE, dir., L'idée fédéraliste dans les Etats Nations, Regards croisés entre la Wallonie et le monde, Bruxelles, Presses interuniversitaires européennes, 1999. Encyclopédie du Mouvement wallon, sous la direction scientifique de Paul Delforge, Philippe Destatte et Micheline Libon, Charleroi, 2000-2001, 3 tomes. Philippe DESTATTE (dir.), Evaluation, prospective et développement régional, Charleroi, Institut Destrée, 2001. Philippe DESTATTE et Pascale VAN DOREN (dir.), La prospective territoriale comme outil de gouvernance, Institut Destrée, 2003. Günter CLAR & Philippe DESTATTE, Regional Foresight, Boosting Regional Potential, Mutual Learning Platform Regional Foresight Report, Luxembourg, European Commission, 2006. Philippe DESTATTE & Philippe DURANCE (dir.) Les mots-clefs de la prospective territoriale, Paris, La Documentation française, 2009. Philippe DESTATTE & Marnix BEYEN, Un autre pays, Nouvelle histoire de Belgique 1970-2000, [volume 9 de la Nouvelle Histoire politique de la Belgique contemporaine de 1830 à nos jours, sous la direction de Michel Dumoulin, Vincent Dujardin et Mark Van den Wijngaert], coll. Histoire, Bruxelles, Le Cri, 2009, 428 p.