Dr. Anette Braun is a macro-economist and political scientist (PhD). Since 1997 she
acts as senior policy and technology consultant at VDI Future Technology Center in
Düsseldorf, where she coordinates various European Prospective Research Studies
(2005-2008 Trend and Issue Analysis of the European Foresight Monitoring Network
www.efmn.eu, 2007 the foresight programme of the Luxemburg Government).
She is responsible for the performance of socio-economic analyses of global trends,
drivers, emerging issues (roadmaps on health, e-health, biotech, nano, converging
technologies), their exploitation, combination, synthesis and translation into discrete
S&T policy priorities.
She acted as Member of the High Level Expert Group for DG RTD in 2005 on
“Foresighting the New Technology Wave” and published various articles and papers
on RTD and foresight.