Our Board
Our Board
The Board appoints the organisation’s leadership, provides budgetary and operational oversight, steers the strategic development of The Data Tank, and supports fundraising and partnerships.
Luc Tayart de Borms
Dr Julia Stamm
Wim De Waele
Dr Corinna Hörst
Emily Pryor
Non-executive Chair of the Board, independent
Luc Tayart de Borms
Luc Tayart de Borms was Managing Director of the King Baudouin Foundation until 2022 and Chairman of the Network of European Foundations (NEF) for Innovative Cooperation and the European Foundation Centre (now Philea). Luc has vast experience working in the foundation environment. He is still a Trustee of Give2Asia.
Under Luc’s leadership, the King Baudouin Foundation was one of the first foundations to employ a Data scientist. Together with colleagues, Luc also played a key role in creating the European AI Fund inside NEF. Luc is author of three publications: “Global Philanthropy (2010)”, “Philanthropy in Europe (2008)” and “Foundations – Creating Impact in a Globalised World (2005)”. For him, effective philanthropy is “impact driven” and depends on a strategic mix of methodologies that reach beyond grant giving. Born in Belgium, Luc obtained a Master’s Degree in Moral Sciences from the University of Ghent.
Chief Executive Officer
Dr Julia Stamm
A purpose-driven leader with profound expertise in the areas of science, policy, technology and innovation for the common good, Julia Stamm has long-standing leadership and management experience in national and international organisations, such as COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology), the G20 and the European Commission, as well as as founder and entrepreneur.
Julia regularly advises a broad range of stakeholders in academia, civil society, policy-making and business, helping them find new ways of thinking and acting to meet the challenges our societies are facing and build sustainable and equitable futures.
In 2019, she founded The Futures Project, an international non-profit initiative aiming to build better futures by ensuring that innovation and technology serve the real needs of people and planet. She serves on several boards and committees, such as the International Programming Committee of MTL Connect. In 2021, she received the Digital Female Leader Award, category “Global Hero”. Julia is a BMW Foundation Responsible Leader.
Non-executive Board Secretary, Co-founder, independent
Wim De Waele
Wim de Waele started his career as a scientific researcher at the university, applying AI technology in industry. He continued to work in AI at Siemens and Numetrix before joining i2 Technologies and moving to the US in the nineties. Upon his return to Europe, Wim became the founder and Chief Executive Officer at iMinds, now part of imec.be, whose iStart accelerator was rated one of the top three university business incubators. He is executive chairman at The Beacon, an AI and IoT innovation hub thebeacon.eu and co-founder of the Miles Ahead Venture Studio milesahead.ai.
Non-executive Board member, Independent
Dr Corinna Hörst
Corinna Hörst is an accomplished leader and manager as well as an expert on European affairs, transatlantic relations, diversity, gender, and women leadership.
Until early 2023, Corinna was Managing Director for Leadership Programs and a Senior Fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF) until early 2023. Prior to this she held several positions at GMF Brussels and Washington, DC. Corinna is a co-founder of The Brussels Binder, an online database of female policy experts, and was its first president from 2015 – 2022.
NON-EXECUTIVE BOARD MEMBER, INDEPENDENT
Emily Pryor
Emily Courey Pryor is a social impact executive and gender equality advocate. She was the founding executive director of Data2X, launched in 2012 to decrease gender bias in global data sources and increase use of gender data for better, smarter decision making. Emily’s career has spanned gender and women’s empowerment, global health, economic development, and climate change, through roles at the United Nations Foundation, Gilead Sciences, and the American Red Cross. As an investor, she has focused on climate issues and solar energy, and she also serves on the Global Board of Girl Up. Emily completed her undergraduate and graduate studies in the US, and now lives with her family in Portugal.
