An Executive Vice President for Future Generations – role portfolio

With a Foreword by Sophie Howe, Future Generations Commissioner for Wales 2016-23

With the start of the next 5-year cycle of the EU institutions on the horizon later this year, we are proposing the appointment of an Executive Vice President for Future Generations in the next European Commission.

Decisions made today will shape the EU’s position and the lives of people in Europe for decades. While many issues require immediate responses, the Commission also needs to consistently consider the long-term in policymaking and how decisions will impact the future of the EU and its people.

This proposal describes the detailed portfolio we envision for the role, including :

• the Core Competencies
• the Work Plan – for the first 100 days, first year, and first five years
• how it would make use of Strategic Foresight
• ways to improve long-view impact assessments
• a cross-institutional approach to embedding intergenerational long-term thinking.