Patrick CREHAN is of Irish nationality, resides in Belgium and has a PhD in Mathematical Physics. In his early career, teaching and doing research, he worked at University College Dublin, The College of Commerce in Rathmines, the Institute of Technology at Bolton Street, and the Dublin Institute for Advance Studies In Ireland, as well as the Tokyo Institute of Technology and the School of Mathematics at Kyoto University in Japan.

In 1996, he left academia to work at DG3/A2 of the European Commission, a unit responsible for Industry Policy, with a budget for international cooperation in research in ICT. His work required the integration of EU policies for trade, industry, and economic development, with policies for S+T, and the use of research as a lever for cooperation between the EU and other regions of the world.

In 1998, he left the European Commission to establish CKA. In this role he has worked in many places in the EU and neighbouring countries such as Turkey and Ukraine, in Latin-America, North Africa and Asia. Most recently in India.

Patrick is an internationally recognised expert on the use of strategic Foresight, which he uses as a change-management tool. He is an adjoint professor at ENIT in Tunisia where he teaches a module in a professional master’s program on the management of innovation. He is a Director of the Basel-based Club of Amsterdam, and elected member of the EU Chapter of the Club of Rome. His professional focus is on scaling the transformations needed to create a sustainable economic system.

  As an advisory services firm specialised in the management of research and Innovation. Over the years, the focus of work has shifted from IT to food and agriculture. Nowadays he focuses on the transition to net zero.

 It’s first client was the cabinet of the Prime Minister of Spain, which it helped to develop STI strategies and networks covering North Africa and Latin America. Since then he has led the development of many strategies and policies for multi-national companies, the EU, its member states, neighbourhood and accession partner countries. Nowadays, most of his work concerns the transition to a sustainable economy. The recent focus has been on food and agriculture, energy and transport, as well as new models of governance and public finance.

In 2022, he was invited by the EU Delegation in Delhi to develop a roadmap for EU-India cooperation on sustainable biofuels from biomass for aviation and maritime transport. This work was successfully completed in August 2023. The roadmap was launched in February 2024 at the World Sustainable Development Summit in Delhi.