Interview with Agnès Hubert, president of the first European Feminist think tank: Gender5+, associate researcher with Science Po Paris
Agnes Hubert is an experienced policy maker and a recognised author on EU gender equality policy and social innovation in the EU. She is currently the president of the first European Feminist think tank: Gender5+, associate researcher with Science Po Paris, visiting professor at the College of Europe and member of the committee of international and European affairs of the Haut Conseil de l’Egalité of the French government.
Economist by training she was a journalist before joining the European Commission where she held senior operational and advising functions dealing with gender equality and social innovation, contributing to raise these issues at the highest levels in European institutions.
She has written books (“The European Union and Gender equality, striving for a better future”, 2022 FEPS Primer series, “L’Europe et les femmes, identités en movement” 1998 ed.Apogée; democracy and information society in Europe 1997 Kogan Page ed. and two major policy documents on Social innovation for the European Commission: “Empowering people, driving change: Social innovation in the European Union” 2010 and “Social innovation a decade of changes” 2014, as well as a number of peer reviewed academic articles and contributions in the fields of her expertise. She has taught at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (Boston), in Science Po Paris and she has also directed and produced a film on “Eliane Vogel Polsky, a champion of women’s cause in Europe”)