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Michael OBORNE - Director
American citizen, Michael Oborne has been at the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) since 1980. He has held posts as Senior Research Fellow (China and Pacific Basin), Executive Assistant to the Deputy Secretary General of OECD, Head of the Science and Technology Policy Division of OECD, and Deputy Director for Science, Technology and Industry. He is presently Director of the Advisory Unit to the Secratary-General, Director of the OECD's International Futures Programme and also Director for the OECD’s Global Science Forum.
Mr. Oborne was educated at the University of California at Berkeley (BA, MA, and PhD), Cambridge University, and the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris. He has taught at universities in the United States, Great Britain, France and Italy (as a Senior Fulbright Professor). In the 1980's he worked on the political economies of the Pacific Basin countries, and published books and articles on technology and direct foreign investment issues in the People's Republic of China.
Over his career, Mr. Oborne has worked extensively in the areas of biotechnology, science policy, innovation policy frameworks, information technology policy and the political economy of China. Currently, the International Futures Programme is working on projects focused on space, the new security economy (particularly biosecurity issues), monitoring and managing new systemic risks, the emerging bio-economy, and Infrastructure. Mr. Oborne chairs the OECD Internal Coordinating Group on Biotechnology and Nanotechnology.
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Barrie STEVENS - Deputy Director
British citizen, Barrie Stevens is Deputy Director of the Advisory Unit to the Secretary-General of the OECD, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. He holds a PhD in economics and social policy from Hamburg University, Germany, following studies in business and languages in Manchester, UK. Previous professional experience includes university teaching (economics, social policy), project management in market research (industrial and consumer research) and marketing consultancy.
He joined the OECD in 1982 and worked on a variety of socio-economic issues, including structural adjustment, trade protection and education and training. He has been involved in future studies since the creation in 1990 of the OECD International Futures Programme, which is located in the Advisory Unit. The Programme, which is concerned with the identification and evaluation of newly emerging economic and social issues, aims to promote strategic thinking, test new ideas, and stimulate dialogue between government, business and research on long-term issues.
He is author or co-author of some 40 books and articles on themes ranging from societal change, globalisation and new technologies, to trade, health, energy and transport. Most recently he was co-author of two major OECD reports on “Emerging Systemic Risks in the 21st Century” and “The Security Economy.” He is currently directing an OECD project on "Infrastructures to 2030".
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Pierre-Alain SCHIEB - Counsellor and Head of Projects
French citizen, Dr. Pierre-Alain Schieb is Counsellor in the Advisory Unit to the Secretary-General of the OECD, which manages the International Futures Programme. He is in charge of the International Futures Network, and is Head of OECD Futures Projects, such as the ongoing project on Global Infrastructure Needs: Prospects and Implications for Public and Private Actors, the project on Risk Management Policies in Selected OECD Countries; and the project on The BioEconomy in 2030: A Policy Agenda. Further to recommendations arising from a two year Futures Project, Dr. Schieb is also in charge of the newly created OECD Global Forum on Space Economics. The aim of the Futures Programme is to help decision-makers in government and business identify and evaluate the strategic challenges of a rapidly changing world economy within a long-term perspective.
Before joining the OECD in 1994, Dr. Schieb was formerly Executive Vice-President of International Business of one France’s major retailing groups; Dean of a graduate school of business in France; and holds an Associate-Professorship at the University of Paris Dauphine. Co-founder of a high-tech start-up company in the early 1980s and involved in venture capital initiatives, Dr. Schieb was also a consultant to numerous French and US companies in the field of alliances, industrial cooperation, licensing, corporate and marketing strategies. He has also published many articles in the field of international management, risk management, marketing and corporate strategy.
Dr. Schieb earned a Ph.D (Doctorat d’Etat) in management science from the University of Strasbourg (1981), a DBA in economics and business administration from the University of Aix-en-Provence (1974), and a M.Sc in quantitative marketing from the University of Sherbrooke (Canada). Dr. Schieb has received numerous distinctions such as: the Best Award in Economy (Aix-en-Provence, 1967), Best Dissertation Award (Quebec, Canada, 1974), Chevalier in the French Order of Palmes Académiques (1991).
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ANTHONY ARUNDEL – Senior Research and Policy Analyst
Canadian citizen, Anthony Arundel has held two temporary positions in 2004 and 2006 in the OECD’s Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry. He is currently responsible for the Bioeconomy 2030 project within the International Futures Programme until Spring 2008. In addition to administrative responsibilities, he is using clinical trial and field test data to estimate the types of biotechnology health and agricultural products that should reach the market between 2012 and 2015.
Mr. Arundel studied physical geography and biology at Simon Fraser University in Canada and completed an MA in the Economics of Innovation at the University of Maastricht. He maintains a position as Senior Researcher at UNU-MERIT, a joint research institute of the United Nations University and the University of Maastricht.
His research and publications cover the innovation strategies of firms, knowledge transfer to firms from the public science sector, intellectual property rights, innovation indicators, environmental health, eco-innovation, and biotechnology. The latter includes research on the diffusion of environmental biotechnology, the adoption of genetic engineering and marker assisted selection by seed firms, and the therapeutic value of bio-pharmaceuticals. He is also active in developing and improving innovation indicators for the European Commission and in the production of biotechnology metrics for the OECD.
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Claire JOLLY - Policy Analyst
French citizen, Claire Jolly is a Policy Analyst in the Advisory Unit to the Secretary-General of the OECD. She joined the OECD in 2003 to provide expertise for the OECD Advisory Unit's project on the emerging commercial space sector. She is currently the senior policy analyst for the OECD Global Forum on Space Economics, writing background reports for the Forum and OECD publications on the space economy.
Before joining the OECD, Claire Jolly was a policy analyst for the European Space Agency in Holland, dealing with regulatory issues on experiments and space missions. As a co-founder of a dynamic consulting firm, she was a consultant for major aerospace and defence firms in Europe and North America, contributing to sectoral market studies and publishing many articles on space policy and dual-use technologies' issues.
Claire Jolly studied international relations at l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes Internationales in Paris, and received her DESS in security studies with honours from the Versailles University (1998). She holds an engineering certificate in space systems from Ecole Nationale des Techniques Avancées (ENSTA) in Paris (1998). As an intern, she worked a a junior analyst for French and European organisations, such as the Secrétariat Général de la Défense Nationale (SGDN) or the Assembly of the Western European Union (WEU). Based on her policy and high technology-oriented background, she received a scholarship by the French and European space agencies to participate to a multidisciplinary Master programme (supported by major space agencies and industries) at the International Space University (ISU) in Strasbourg (MSc in 1999). She is currently pursuing part-time a Phd in international relations at the University of Durham on technology transfers issues.
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David SAWAYA - Policy Analyst
American citizen, David Sawaya has been a policy analyst in the OECD's International Futures Programme (IFP) since 2005. He is responsible for strategic planning and research within the OECD’s projects on The Bioeconomy to 2030 and manages the IFP’s biosecurity website, www.biosecuritycodes.org. In these roles, he has undertaken original research to analyze the future global socioeconomic impacts of biotechnology and identify key policy issues.
Prior to joining the OECD, Mr. Sawaya worked as an engineering design consultant on government and private development projects in the United States. Mr. Sawaya studied civil engineering, with an emphasis on structural systems and a minor in environmental studies, at Santa Clara University (California, USA), space studies at the International Space University (Strasbourg, France), and economics at George Mason University (Virginia, USA). He is currently pursuing a diploma in Arabic from the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO) in Paris.
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