Since 2004, Alain Henry has been working as an expert at the Federal Planning Bureau in the Task Force on Sustainable Development. Using a transdisciplinary approach, he contributes to the analyses of the present situation, the policy assessments and the prospective scenarios in these reports. He holds a graduate degree in physics and a master’s degree in economics. His areas of expertise include transport, energy and climate change, all within the context of sustainable development. He contributes to the foresight activities of the TFSD, in particular by developing the TransAccount accounting model.

He started his career at the economic research firm Standard & Poor's DRI (now integrated into IHS Global Insight), where he participated in and later managed intersectoral studies and impact assessments of environmental policies in the field of transport and energy. Subsequently, he worked at KU Leuven (study on energy production costs) and then joined the research firm STRATEC where he was responsible for studies in the transport sector.