Grégoire Roos
Director for Europe and Russia, Royal Institute of International Affairs/Chatham House
Grégoire Roos has been Director for Europe and Russia at the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House) since fall 2025. Previously, he was Head of Political Dialogue and Political Innovation at the BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt. In this role, he has built up the BMW Foundation’s political dialogue and practice for political innovation and advanced the Foundation’s work on climate issues. Grégoire Roos is passionate about art and is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the non-profit organization International Arts & Artists (USA). Grégoire Roos is also a (non-resident) fellow at the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs.
During his fellowship, Grégoire Roos will focus on the transformative impact of coalitions of public, private and philanthropic actors. These public-private-philanthropic partnerships (PPPPs) are relatively advanced in the United States, especially in California. His focus is on the possibilities of creating a political discourse based on science and art.
Selected Awards
2025–27 | David Rockefeller Fellow, Trilateral Commission
2024 | European Leader, High-Level Group on European Strategic Interdependence, World Economic Forum
2016 | Winner of the Annual Prize of the Rencontres Économiques d´Aix-en-Provence, awarded by Emmanuel Macron
Selected Publications
2023 | with M. Frick and D. Smith, “Why We Must Urgently Address Climate Issues to Secure Global Peace,” World Economic Forum, June 13, https://www.weforum.org/stories/2023/06/urgently-need-a-new-climate-for-peace/.
2021 | “We Can Only Restore Trust by Emphasizing Our Common Vulnerability as Human Beings” (interview with Prof. Dr. Martha Nussbaum), St. Gallen Symposium, February, https://symposium.org/we-can-only-restore-trust-by-emphasising-our-common-vulnerability-as-human-beings-2.
2018 | “Democracy Has a Wide Variety of Shades, Whether We Like It or Not” (exclusive interview with Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Lech Wałęsa), St. Gallen Symposium, June, https://symposium.org/democracy-has-a-wide-variety-of-shades-whether-we-like-it-or-not/.