Florian Schwendinger is an expert and transformation broker at the interface of science, policy and society, focusing on building capacity in large-scale organisations and systems to engage with complexity and cultivate collective intelligence. His career led him to work on European research, technology and industrial policy files like mobile roaming in the European Parliament, as well as on advancing evidence informed policymaking and deliberative democracy as policy analyst in the European Commission (DG Joint Research Centre).
Most recently, he was project lead on the ‚Competence Framework for Innovative Policymaking‘, which underpins the Commissions central professional development program for policymaking. Centered around the concept of collective intelligence, it integrates and unpacks cross-cutting skills, knowledge and attitudes that policymaking-teams need, to better address complex policy-missions and transformation challenges.