THINK TANK
thinking about the future
Beyond partisan logics.
Analyses and talks that test discourse about the future against the data, backed by a committee of experts. For your teams, your students or your elected officials.
Restoring a positive vision of the future
RESTORING A POSITIVE VISION OF THE FUTURE
Scientific and factual,
We cultivate critical thinking, offer original analyses and give unique talks. Constantly monitoring the best scientific information, we find the right means for your mission, to improve your strategy and align it with contemporary challenges.
Our vision
Never have we had access to so much knowledge, and never has our capacity to transform our environment been so great. This cognitive and operational power gives us the means to improve the world on a scale unprecedented in our history.
Our mission
By developing critical thinking, we help people to better understand the world and to discern what really matters in the face of contemporary challenges. In a complex and polarised society, we help each of us find the most rational path to follow.
Our POSITIONING
We believe in humanity and in its capacity to improve the state of the world. Against narratives that offer only a bleak vision of the human adventure, we put forward optimistic perspectives for the future.
OuR VALUES
Building on humanism and rational ecology, we recognise the intrinsic value of all individuals capable of suffering and experiencing pleasure, that is, of sentient beings. We follow a rational ethics that aims at coherence of ends and effectiveness of means.
Our committee of experts
OUR COMMITTEE OF EXPERTS
Thomas Lepeltier
Director of the Think Tank
PhD in astrophysics, essayist and science journalist, specialising in economics, the philosophy of science and ethics. His books trace the great scientific controversies, from evolution to cosmology (Big bang. Histoire critique d’une idée, Folio, 2021), and then turn to animal ethics and ecology (Faut-il sauver l’ours blanc ?, PUF, 2023).
He analyses every position and sets out each side’s arguments without caricaturing them, concluding wherever the facts lead, even against the grain. It is a standard he applies to our relationship with the environment, to animals, to the future of food and to progress.
Author of more than 500 book reviews and around a hundred articles (on his website), he is an ‘Associate Fellow’ of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics and co-founder of L’Amorce. Involved in APALA’s development, he heads its Think Tank.
Antoine Buéno
Author – Futurist – Speaker
A versatile intellectual, prolific author, teacher and adviser specialising in foresight, utopia, the environment and new technologies, as well as a well-known columnist and political analyst in the French media.
Adviser to the Senate for sustainable development and foresight, and a specialist in utopia (which he taught at Sciences Po) and in technological and environmental issues, Antoine Buéno is the author of about ten books.
He has published Futur, notre avenir de A à Z (2020, Flammarion), L’effondrement (du monde) n’aura (probablement) pas lieu (2022, Flammarion), followed by Faut-il une dictature verte? La démocratie au secours de la planète (2023, Flammarion).
Jacques Lecomte
Author – speaker – consultant
Doctor of psychology, author, speaker and consultant. A specialist in applied positive psychology.
His mission is to make known as widely as possible the human experiences that improve the world, in the social and environmental fields, by sharing life stories to touch the heart and scientific studies to appeal to reason. His aim is to change the world collectively through kindness and fraternity.
Author of many books on positive psychology and on the meaning one can give to one’s life, including Rien n'est joué (2023, Les Arènes). He has also written numerous articles on kindness, resilience and the environment.
EDDY FOUGIER
POLITICAL SCIENTIST – SPEAKER – CONSULTANT
Political scientist, lecturer at Sciences Po Aix-en-Provence, at Audencia Business School (Nantes) and at the Université Versailles-Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ), consultant, and founder of the Observatoire du Positif.
He helps individuals, companies and organisations to understand the major challenges of our time, to see the reasons for hope and action so as to be able to face them. He is particularly interested in the changing relationship between society and the economy, in the crisis of democracy, and also in positive developments and trends (progress, innovations).
Author of several books, including Ne Désespérons pas de la France et des Français (2024, Aube) and Pourquoi pense-t-on que le monde va de plus en plus mal ? (2025, Aube).
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