About the Lisbon Council

The Lisbon Council for Economic Competitiveness and Social Renewal asbl is a Brussels-based think tank and policy network.

Established in 2003 in Belgium as a non-profit, non-partisan association, the group is dedicated to making a positive contribution through cutting-edge research and by engaging political leaders and the public at large in a constructive exchange about the economic and social challenges of the 21st century.

Meet the Secretariat and Fellows

Annalisa Addis
Project Manager and Research Associate
The Lisbon Council
Marta Anducas
Project Manager and Research Associate
The Lisbon Council
Besiana Balla
Associate Director
The Lisbon Council
Vittoria Barbieri
Senior Communication Manager
The Lisbon Council
Aikaterini Beli
Research Associate
The Lisbon Council
Marcella Bonanomi
Senior Research Associate and Project Manager
The Lisbon Council
Alex Borg
Project Manager and Research Associate
The Lisbon Council
Els Brands-Höhner
HR Officer (Interim)
The Lisbon Council
Mike Bracken
Senior Fellow, Digital Government
The Lisbon Council
Mpampis Chatzimallis
Senior Research Associate
The Lisbon Council
Giulia Grandin
Research Associate and Project Manager
The Lisbon Council
Elisabeth Grosdhomme Lulin
Member, Governing Body, The Lisbon Council
Gilles Guarino
Associate
The Lisbon Council
Paul Hofheinz
President and Co-Founder
The Lisbon Council
Federico Iannuli
Project Manager and Research Associate
The Lisbon Council
Audrey Keukens
Adviser and Member, General Assembly
The Lisbon Council
Konstantinos Komaitis
Senior Researcher and Non-Resident Fellow
The Lisbon Council
Tjark de Lange
Treasurer and Co-Founder, The Lisbon Council
CEO, Kapp Nederland
Tom Loosemore
Senior Fellow Digital Government
The Lisbon Council
Mario Lovrić
Senior Research Associate
The Lisbon Council
Evgenia Malikova
Senior Advisor, Ukraine and Accession Countries
The Lisbon Council
Cristina Moise
Senior Researcher and Head of Statistical Analysis
The Lisbon Council
Francesco Molinari
Senior Research Associate and Project Coordinator
The Lisbon Council
Francesco Mureddu
Senior Director
The Lisbon Council
Natalia Oprea
Researcher
The Lisbon Council
Francesco Osimanti
Research Associate and Project Manager
The Lisbon Council
David Osimo
Director of Research
The Lisbon Council
Alessandro Paciaroni
Public Sector Innovation Expert
The Lisbon Council
Martha Papadopoulou
Project Manager and Research Associate
The Lisbon Council
Anna Pizzamiglio
Project Manager and Research Associate
The Lisbon Council
Elena Silvestrini
Project Manager and Research Associate
The Lisbon Council
Jon Switters
Senior Research Associate and Project Coordinator
The Lisbon Council
Francesco Tognoni Martinez de Velasco
Associate
The Lisbon Council
Marcello Verona
Associate Director IT and Knowledge Platforms
The Lisbon Council
Marieke Willems
Senior Research Associate and Project Manager
The Lisbon Council
Maria Chiara Zaccaria
Research Associate and Project Manager
The Lisbon Council

Statutes

Founded in 2003, The Lisbon Council for Economic Competitiveness and Social Renewal asbl is an independent, non-partisan and non-profit association registered in Belgium.

Download the Statutes

Acknowledgements

The Lisbon Council has a diversified funding base made up of grants, contracts and support from a wide array of organisations and agencies. We would particularly like to extend our gratitude to the European Commission and the European Union’s Horizon Europe programme, which supported projects that made possible roughly two-thirds of the Lisbon Council’s activities in 2023-2024. We are also grateful to the following organisations for partnership and collaboration: Amazon, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Apple, Digital Europe Programme, Google, International Data Corporation (IDC), Meta Platforms, Inc., Nvidia Corporation, Salesforce.com and Workday.

The Lisbon Council is an independent, non-profit, non-partisan association. Support for the Lisbon Council’s activities does not constitute endorsement of any statement, view or initiative of the Lisbon Council or any of its associates.