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Meet the Yellow Window ‘Policy Design’ team

Drawing upon our decades-long experience in product design, service design and management consultancy, a new vision of policy design was conceived. Our approach aims to challenge the ways policies are being developed and delivered, with a view to improving the users’ experience and to make these policies more efficient, sustainable and cost-effective. This philosophy derives from the way we apply design thinking, with attention for the diversity of users and the emerging uses and needs that command technological and social innovation. 

We have assisted public institutions and private companies in decision-making and with the planning, implementation and evaluation of policy instruments for over three decades. 

The basis of a significant part of our activities is qualitative, social and policy-driven research, to which we add specific expertise in gender equality, diversity, inclusion, social innovation and public health. We have extensive experience in the collection of (often difficult to retrieve) data, and the analysis of complex and comprehensive data sets, at national and European level and the translation of these data into concrete and actionable recommendations and solutions. 

Our team also has know-how on surveying and understanding the needs of the customer and other stakeholders. We are experienced in assessing policies, programmes and organisations. 

Research Director

Lut Mergaert (she/her)

Lut is the Research Director and a gender expert with extensive experience as scientific coordinator and project leader of research and policy support projects.

Managing Director

Alain Denis (he/him)

Alain is the Managing Director with extensive experience in service and policy design, and in user and stakeholder involvement through participatory techniques.

Consultant, Trainer

Nathalie Wuiame (she/her)

Nathalie is an independent expert with 30 years of experience in gender equality capacity building initiatives and legal opinions on gender discrimination. She is a member of the European Network of Legal Experts in Gender Equality and lecturer at Rennes 2 University on gender equality in the workplace.

Senior Consultant, Trainer

Maxime Forest (he/him)

Maxime is a senior consultant and an academic with expertise in policy analysis and gender equality with a long experience of applied research in the fields of social sciences, and public policy design, implementation and evaluation.

Consultant, Trainer

Vasia Madesi (she/her)

Vasia is a Gender Equality and Inclusion Consultant with expertise in policy design and gender mainstreaming. She specialises in advancing gender equality with an intersectional perspective through European projects, fostering inclusive policies and transformative change.

Consultant, Trainer

Panagiota Polykarpou (she/her)

Panagiota is a Consultant for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion with a background in business management and social innovation, specialising in supporting European Research and Innovation projects.

Consultant

Aart Kerremans (he/him)

Aart is a Consultant with a background in social and economic sciences, as well as film studies and visual culture.