Simon Winter works as Strategic Foresight Expert in the European and International Cooperation Department at the DLR Project Management Agency. Simon conceptualised and facilitated Strategic Foresight studies and workshops on behalf of the European Commission or several German Federal Ministries. He co-coordinates the Commission’s study “Support for Strategic Foresight on Research & Innovation Futures in EU Enlargement Countries”. Before joining the DLR, he worked as Policy Analyst in the OECD’s Public Governance Directorate. Among others, he worked in the team in charge of Costa Rica’s accession process to the OECD as well as on issues related to public sector reforms, Policy Monitoring and Evaluation. Previously, he was Associate Editor in a think tank.

Claudio Zettel works at the German Aerospace Centre (DLR), Project Management Agency (DLR-Projektträger), where he contributes his expertise in regional and labour research. He studied geography at the Universities of Bonn and Brasília. He has conducted research and taught on the informal sector, as well as on labour and innovation research, at the Universities of Bonn (Germany), Lima (Peru), Brasília (Brazil) and Talca (Chile). On behalf of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), he established the European network on labour innovations, ‘WORKINNET’. He headed the Federal Ministry of Education and Research’s funding programme on labour research and, together with the IQIB research institute, led the ‘FutureWork’ foresight project on labour.  He is currently responsible, on behalf of the federal and state governments, for research projects in the field of cohesion policy concerning the future of the European Structural Funds (ERDF) and provides expert support for the ‘Socially Responsible Artificial Intelligence’ programme on behalf of the Baden-Württemberg Foundation.