Speaker

Guillaume Klossa is a European thinker, writer and political adviser and a business leader. He chairs the EuropaNova think tank and the board of the Conclave, a new top level trans-disciplinary and forward-looking reflection agora focussed on the future of Europe that he cofounded with Peter Grk, Grégoire Roos and Loukas Tsoukalis. The first Conclave report  Europe 2040 : Tomorrow is now - Co-building a global, sustainable and responsible power was given back in March 2024 to the presidency of the Council of the EU in order to contribute to prepare the EU strategic agenda for 2024-2029. Guillaume is also president of T-life, a deep tech aiming to radically improve biological diagnoses and provide an high quality for all through AI and physics. Guillaume served for six years as executive director of the European Broadcasting Union, which is operating Eurovision, after serving as director of Bureau Veritas group and executive vice-president of McDonald’s France and Southern Europe. Guillaume was also a special adviser to the 2008 French presidency of the Council of the European Union, before serving as a sherpa of the European Council Reflection group on the future of the EU chaired by president Felipe Gonzalez and a special adviser for AI and Tech platform regulation of the president of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker. He was professor of European affairs at Sciences-Po Paris, College of Europe, ENA and HEC Paris and he teaches now at ESCP business school. He published several non-fiction books on the future of Europe and used to be a global columnist for Metro and Forbes. His last book, Fierté europeenne, manifeste pour une civilisation d’avenir, commented by globally renown philosopher Slavoj Zizek, was finalist of the European Book Prize. He graduated in corporate strategy (MBA HEC), international management (CEMS MIM, LSE) and political sciences (MPA, Sciences Po Paris).