Gabriel Crean

Grand Duchy of Luxembourg on Innovation and Industrial Policy

Advisor to the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Economy

Prof.  Dr. Crean is an advisor to the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the  Economy of Luxembourg on research, innovation and the data economy. He is  also the Chief Executive Officer of the Lux Consulting Group, a boutique firm  providing advisory and management consulting services on issues at the  intersection of deep technology, innovation management, the digital economy  and geopolitics.

Prof. Crean is deeply involved in the European digital  transformation policy agenda and participates on several high level European  strategic bodies. He is a board member of the ECSEL Joint Undertaking, an  EU-driven, €5billion public-private partnership, funding innovation in  electronic components and systems.

He is a member of the joint European  Commission and Member States High Level Group on Digitising European Industry  and Artificial Intelligence. He actively participated in the recent creation  of the new €2.3 Billion EuroHPC High Performance Computing (HPC) Joint  Undertaking, with its headquarters located in Luxembourg.

Prof. Crean has a  unique deep technology management experience, previously holding Chief  Scientist and Vice-President for Technology executive positions, in CEA  (Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives), one of the  world’s leading technological research organisations. He has led national  research technology organisations in France, Ireland and Luxembourg.

He has  co-founded and chaired three deep technology venture capital backed  companies. Prof. Crean is an internationally recognized thought leader and  influencer, reflected in his election as a President of the International  Union of Materials Research Societies, an Academician of the European Academy  of Arts and Sciences and an Academic Fellow of the European Political Centre.  

Prof. Crean holds a doctorate in Materials Sciences from the Université  Grenoble Alpes and, received an honorary doctorate from the Wroclaw  University of Technology, Poland for his contribution to promoting European  research and innovation initiatives.