BIO

Grégoire Roos is the Director of the Europe and Russia Programme, born out of the integration of the Europe and Russia and Eurasia programmes.

From 2021 to 2025, Grégoire served as the Head of Political Dialogue & Policy Innovation at the BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt. In this capacity, he developed the Foundation’s geopolitical practice at the crossroads of international security, industrial policy and the energy transition. He also created, curated and oversaw the Foundation’ s flagship annual programme at the Munich Security Conference.

Prior to joining the non-profit sector, Grégoire worked in the financial industry as market intelligence officer, and at the United Nations Development Programme at the UN Liaison Office in Dakar, Senegal.

An expert in European policy and the geopolitics of energy, Grégoire is a non-resident fellow at the Center on Global Energy Policy at the School of International and Public Policy of the University of Columbia. He is also a member of the Steering Committee on Green Trade of the World Economic Forum, a member of the Forum’s Global Future Councils, and sat on the Forum’s High-Level Group on European Strategic Interdependence. Grégoire is a member of the Advisory Committee of the Delphi Economic Forum and a David Rockefeller Fellow of the Trilateral Commission.