Aidan Gilligan (Irish) is Founder and CEO of the SciCom Network, a Brussels and Cape Town-based science diplomacy agency with Associates in Copenhagen, Geneva, London and Paris, striving to make greater sense of science-policy-making for public, private and especially cause-related groups.

SciCom draws on over twenty years of top-tier experience working at the nexus of science and society, particularly on emotionally charged issues around public health, energy policy or international competition and statecraft. Its corporate ethos is to engage with decision-makers at the highest levels of the global scientific enterprise to champion ‘evidence-based policy-making above policy-biased evidence-making’.