About us
Founded only in 2025, we turn reports into action, together with industry, financial actors, and other key stakeholders. All too often, reports and roundtables can become an end in themselves in the world of think tanks. With roots in technology startups, industry, and policymaking, our approach is more hybrid, combining the strengths of think-and-do tanks and learning and innovation spaces to create robust policy and regulatory proposals for the future. This enables us to work across sectors and combine our strengths.
Starting with a grand challenge, we build a prototype to showcase and test. We then transform the learnings and insights into policy blueprints, which often do not require legislative change, and into concrete policy requests.
Stichting Ministry of Future Affairs is registered in the Netherlands and we work with partners across Europe.
Team
We bring together 45 years of combined experience in EU policy, regulation, sustainability and innovation. Our team has extensive experience working with the European institutions and with and in various industries. We have worked in a range of roles, from director positions at leading trade associations to public affairs for tech start-ups. We work regularly with Member States and have collaborated with the OECD and UNEP. We collaborate closely with legal, regulatory and scientific experts, as well as with investors and regional development agencies.
Anna Handschuh
Founder and Managing Director · Amsterdam Headquarter
Dr Anne-Gaëlle Collot
Senior Advisor EU policy and regulatory affairs · Brussels Office
Thank you to our supporters
Since our recent founding, our work has been made possible through the support of philanthropic foundations, public authorities, and development agencies. We are grateful for the trust and support of our partners. If you want to support our work and get involved, please get in touch.
Jobs
We are always open to hearing from people with an entrepreneurial mindset, a network in Brussels, and experience in EU policy and regulation. We also need to talk if you pay as much attention to detail as we do, to well-written and well-grounded papers and research, and if you care about high quality and actual substance in the age of AI-flooded texts that all sound the same. You don’t have to wait for a vacancy that matches you. Send us your CV and a short note to hello(at)ministryoffutureaffairs.org
No vacancies are open at the moment. Speculative applications are welcome.