Nicky Dries

Academic Director - Future of Work Lab, KU Leuven

Business, Strategy & Entrepreneurship | Future of Work, Technology, Society & reform

Nicky Dries

Biography

Nicky Dries is Full Professor of Organizational Behavior at KU Leuven, Belgium and at BI Norwegian Business School, Norway. In Leuven, she leads the Future of Work Lab within the Faculty of Economics, that studies social imaginaries for the future. The Lab’s research builds on methods aimed at triggering people's imagination about the future, using media analysis, robotic art and design, virtual reality, and science-fiction movies. Nicky is a former Fulbright Scholar. She has published over 60 international peer-reviewed articles, 2 books, and 20 book chapters. She is very active in science communication, regularly publishing trade press articles (Harvard Business Review, Forbes), op-eds/editorials, and podcasts, and appeared in a documentary TV series on the labor market implications of disruptive technologies (“The Digital Dilemma”). In 2021, Nicky was selected from more than 1000 applicants to be part of Belgium’s ‘40 under 40’ inaugural cohort representing the nation’s promising future societal leaders.