Founder, Missions Publiques and Board Member, Democracy & Culture Foundation
Yves Mathieu is the founder of Missions Publiques, an agency specializing in advising decision makers on implementing and institutionalizing new forms of participatory decision-making. Deliberation, sortition, citizen engagement, stakeholder dialogue, collective intelligence methods, impacts on decision-making processes, visibility and transparency are central to the daily work of the Missions Publiques team.
Since 2023, he has been part of the constituent network of the Democratic Odyssey. He was a core member of the team responsible for the European citizens' panels for the Conference on the Future of Europe, consisting of four panels made up of 200 randomly selected European citizens in 24 languages, with each panel lasting nine days. He was also involved in the subsequent plenary process that enabled a deliberation to take place between citizens and decision makers, which shaped the final recommendations of the conference.
Together with his team, Mr. Mathieu has spent the last decade developing and deploying global and decentralized deliberation methods in over 80 countries spanning five continents to address planetary issues in a deliberative, inclusive and decentralized manner.
He is also leading research on "perma-democracy," an approach inspired by nature, viewing democracy as a living system. He recently designed the "three body assembly," where future and unborn generations, as well as the living ecosystem, are included in the deliberative process alongside present-day citizens. This method aims to account for the long-term and systemic impacts of decisions.
