Speaker

Grégoire Roos is the Director of the Europe and Russia & Eurasia programmes at the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House), where he is responsible to advance the Institute’s research and strategic partnerships on European industrial competitiveness, security and defence, as well as the security and economic implications of the war in Ukraine and the geopolitical shifts around Russia and its neighbours. From 2021 to 2025, Mr Roos 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. An expert in European foreign policy and the geopolitics of energy, Mr Roos is a non-resident fellow at the Center on Global Energy Policy at the School of International and Public Affairs 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. Mr Roos is a member of the Advisory Committee of the Delphi Economic Forum and a David Rockefeller Fellow of the Trilateral Commission. In the summer of 2026, Mr Roos will be a fellow-in-residence at the Thomas-Mann Villa in Los Angeles.