Partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Luxembourg
Laurent is a Partner at the PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Luxembourg and is the Global Network leader of the “Regional Innovation Ecosystem”. After having developed a research centre in Investment management, he has been specialised over the past 15 years in Economic development initiatives and clusters for governments and regions and high growth technology companies.
Laurent hasinitiated and developed international partnerships between leading international research Institutes, governments and companies in the field of big data, cybersecurity and biomedicine.
Laurent regularly advises European Institutions and international Governments to accelerate the digital transformation of their economies and on their innovation policies and ecosystems.
For the EU and 28 member States, Laurent has developed and managed the EU Business Innovation Observatory, the EU cluster and emerging industries observatory and the EU Digital Entrepreneurship Initiative (Think tank composed of the EU Commission, EU member states and 25 representatives of the digital economy) aiming at fostering the uptake of digital technologies in the EU industry.
Laurent‘s team has proposed many forward-looking policy recommendations recently adopted by the EU Commission.