Joël de Rosnay

Joël de Rosnay (born 12 June 1937), is a Mauritius-born French scientist and writer, presently President of Biotics International, a consulting company specialized in the impact of new technologies on industries, and Special Advisor to the President of the Universcience (Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie and Palais de la Découverte) of which he was Director of Forecasting and Assessment until June 2002.

Descendant of a family of planters from the island of Mauritius (Fromet de Rosnay), Joël de Rosnay was born in Curepipe, Mauritius, and has lived in Paris since 1945. He is the son of the Franco-Mauritian painter Gaëtan de Rosnay (1912-1992) and Natacha Koltchine (born in Saint Petersburg in 1914, fleeing the Russian Revolution and arriving in Biarritz, southern France in the 1920s, died in Sens in 2005), and the brother of Zina Dotézac and Arnaud de Rosnay.

Joël de Rosnay is married to Stella Jebb, daughter of Lord Gladwyn Jebb, former acting Secretary-General of the UN (194...