Théophile Cassignol is an analyst in the Research and Innovation Policies Line at the Brussels office of Technopolis Group. He contributes to various high-level European projects. Some recent relevant projects include: Key considerations for strategic digital technologies under the 10th Framework Programme for R&I (DG CONNECT), Developing the European research infrastructures landscape, maintaining global leadership (Horizon Europe) and the Study on the uptake of Advanced materials (DG RTD). He displays qualitative and quantitative research methodologies through desk research, literature review, impact evaluation, data collection and stakeholder engagement from workshop conduction to public consultation and targeted survey analysis.

Prior to joining Technopolis, Théophile completed an internship at the French Ministry of Labour, Employment and Integration where he followed the drafting and adoption of bill and provided legal counsel to the public administration and organizations in administrative and labour matters. He further worked for the French start-up GOJEE (Qabis), which provided legal advice to entrepreneurs and assisting them in their administrative commercial processes through drafting official documents and representing them in front of the courts of commerce.

Théophile holds an L.L.M. in International and European Union law from the University of Amsterdam and an L.L.B. in Public Law from the University of Paris Panthéon Assas. In parallel of his internship, he was completing an Advanced Masters at the Free University of Brussels (ULB) in EU public policy with a focus on EU integration, regionalism, and governance. Throughout his academic career he focused on European social policy, researching on subjects including social dumping and social protection, the posted workers system, the European Pillar of Social Rights as well as migration schemes for talents under the New Pact on Migration and Asylum.