Marc Luyckx Ghisi

Marc Luyckx Ghisi has studied mathematics, Philosophy and has a PhD in Russian and Greek Theology. He has lived in Italy, Brazil, and USA, and has lectured in Brazil, US and Europe.

He has been during almost 10 years, working directly for Presidents of the European Commission Jacques Delors and Jacques Santer, as a member of the “Forward Studies Unit”, in the European Commission, from 1990 until 1999. He was in charge of the meaning of the European construction and of its ethical, cultural, religious, and political dimensions, in the context of the paradigm shift. He has been one of the organizers of the EU program called “The Soul of Europe”, and organised many meetings of President Delors with religious leaders, philosophers, etc.

He is now active in futurology research and is invited to lecture in Europe.

He is a Fellow of the “World Business Academy”, and the “World Academy of Arts and Science”. Member of the Brussels-EU Chapter of the “Club of Rome”. Member of the “(Yes magazine), Positive Future network ”.(US). Member of the “World Federation of Future Studies”. He is also Honorary President of EUROTAS “European Transpersonal Association”. And former member of the Board of Advisors of “Auroville”, near Pondichery in India.

His latest publications includes « Surgissement d’un nouveau monde : vision valeurs économie politique, tout change ». Paris, L’Harmattan, 2013. « Au-delà de la modernité, du patriarcat et du capitalisme: la société réenchantée.” Préface Ilya Prigogine (†), Prix Nobel 1977. Editeur: L’harmattan, Paris. 2001. (English and Italian versions exist.), “Religions confronted with science and technology: churches and ethics after Prometheus” European Commission, Brussels, 1992. (French & English editions), “religions and civilisations”, seminar organised by the forward studies unit, in the European Commission, in Brussels, in May 1998, The Transmodern Hypothesis published in Futures Nov. Déc. 1999, September 11 was the end of the legitimacy of western modernity as a dominating mode. Interview with Marc Luyckx” in AL-SIYASSA AL-DAWLIYA, International Politics Journal. Cairo, Egypt, Issue N°150 October 2002.

He is fluent in French (mother tongue), English, Italian, Dutch, Brazilian, German, Modern Greek, Russian, and Spanish.

Many articles and his book in English and Italian are available for free on his blog: vision2020.canalblog.com