Our Team

Foresight is built through multiple voices

Inspiring Futures brings together complementary expertise — strategy, anthropology of technology, digital governance, health, educational design, and artistic creation.

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Isabella de Magny

CEO & Health Expert

Founder of Inspiring Futures, Isabella de Magny specialises in health foresight. A graduate of Sciences Po and ESSEC (Therapeutic Innovations Chair), she has designed innovative ethical case formats on topics with high societal impact, such as health data, predictive medicine, and augmented humanity. Author of 2050 (Éditions Storylab, 2022), an anticipatory novel that introduced the pioneering concept of the biocitizen. She is a member of the Anticipation Committee of the Ministry of National Education and Communications Director for the AISHA (Artificial Intelligence Skills Hub Academy) project. She is also involved with Collectif 106, which contributes to building collective narratives for the coming world, reinventing public action, and building a society based on territories, living systems, and human connection.

Pierre Rossel

President, Foresight & Scientific Evaluation Advisor

A Doctor of Anthropology (University of Neuchâtel), Pierre Rossel taught technology evaluation and technological foresight at EPFL for twenty-four years. A specialist in weak signals and author of numerous international publications, he has contributed to over 80 applied research projects, including a recent study for UNESCO on digital governance and AI.

Gianluca Misuraca

Co-founder, VP Technological Diplomacy & Digital Governance

Co-founder of Inspiring Futures and CEO of Inspiring Futures Europe. He coordinates the AISHA (Artificial Intelligence Skills Hub Academy) project, which brings together 42 partners to build the European AI Skills Academy, in conjunction with the European Commission’s AI Office. Since January 2025, he has been Scientific Director of AI4Gov Accelerate. Founder of the Master’s in Artificial Intelligence for Public Services (AI4GOV, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid). For the European Commission, he directed the ‘Digital Partnerships in Action’ initiative and the ‘InTouchAI.eu’ initiative. From 2009 to 2020, he was a senior researcher at the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC), focusing on digital governance, social innovation, and artificial intelligence.

Maïté Butaije

Narrative and Participatory Experience Designer

A graduate in social communications (IHECS, Brussels) and entrepreneurship (emlyon), Maïté imagines and designs sensitive and engaging experiences to explore major societal issues in new ways. She creates exhibitions, exploration notebooks, and foresight games, where storytelling and creation become levers for understanding, empathy, and collective participation.
At the crossroads of design, pedagogy, and foresight, she brings complex subjects to life by awakening imagination, fostering reflection, and opening dialogue. Also a children’s author (Funambule, mental health album, 2025), Maïté draws on the power of stories and artistic creation to open spaces for expression and civic participation.

Fanny Brenet

Foresight Consultant

A biomedical engineer graduated from EPFL, Fanny Brenet has for several years supported impactful projects in the health and environment sectors, in collaboration with Swiss hospital and academic stakeholders, notably innovation projects conducted at CHUV. Within Inspiring Futures, she applies this dual expertise, scientific and field-based, to health foresight. She notably co-led the development of the Canton of Fribourg’s health foresight strategy for 2040.

Benjamin D'Hont

Associate Expert IF France

An engineer from École des Mines de Saint-Étienne, Benjamin has worked for over fifteen years in supporting health innovation. As CEO of Altaria and head of Aptar Digital Health’s digital health division, he has supported more than 150 strategic projects for R&D, strategy, and C-Level decision-makers. Co-author with Isabella de Magny of 2050, he teaches digital health at École des Mines de Saint-Étienne, EM
Lyon, and IAE Lyon.