Paweł Świeboda is a Senior Visiting Fellow and Co-Director of the Brussels Economic Security Forum, the EPC’s flagship project on economic security.
In his previous role, he was Director General of the Human Brain Project and CEO of EBRAINS AISBL. In this capacity, he oversaw the building of the Research Infrastructure for the study of the brain - EBRAINS. In the earlier period, he was Deputy Head and Head of Research of the European Political Strategy Centre at the European Commission. He is a member of the European Commission’s Expert Group on the Economic and Societal Impact of Research and Innovation. He had served on the Global Agenda Council on Europe of the World Economic Forum. He is a member of the Council of WWF Polska, an advisor to European and global companies and policy organisations.
Paweł is also Founder of NeuroCentury, a brain health policy hub and Senior Fellow for Neurotechnology at the Center for Future Generations, and Co-Founder of the Brain Capital Alliance.
He has a BSc (Economics) from the London School of Economics and MA from the University of London.
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Economic security, science and emerging technologies, health policy
The world in which Europe lived and developed for several decades has fallen into ruins. Threats are constantly increasing, and a long-standing strategic ally is now a dangerous unknown. "The days of paying ourselves a generous peace dividend are over. The EU faces a choice: rebuild its power or accept a colonial status vis-à-vis China and the United States," says Paweł Świeboda, co-director of the Brussels Economic Security Forum and one of Poland's leading experts on European policy, in an interview with Interia.
EMEA Advisor, Dr. Harris Eyre, lead and senior fellow in neuro-policy with Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public policy and executive Director of the Brain Capital Alliance, shared his top 10 reflections and forward-thinking ideas after attending the World Economic Forum 2025 in Davos
