Jerome C. Glenn co-founded and directs The Millennium Project, a leading global participatory think tank supported by international organizations, governments, corporations, and NGOs, which produces the internationally recognized State of the Future annual reports for the past 16 years.

Jerome Glenn invented the “Futures Wheel”, a futures assessment technique; Futuristic Curriculum Development, and concepts such as conscious-technology, transinstitutions, tele-nations, management by understanding, feminine brain drain, just-in-time knowledge, feelysis, nodes as a management concept for interconnecting global and local views and actions, and definitions of environmental security, Collective Intelligence, and scenarios.

Ralph Keeney specializes in the development, use, and dissemination of decision-making concepts and techniques that help policy makers, governments, businesses, and individuals facing important decisions to structure their decisions in a logical manner that will promote better decision-making.

Dr. Keeney has made significant contributions to the fields of decision analysis and value-focused thinking. He applies precepts from operations research, management science and the decision sciences to important and challenging decision problems. His work includes: theoretical, methodological, and procedural contributions to decision analysis, risk analysis, and value-focused thinking and their applications.

He promotes the decision sciences through education and speaking, and service.

Ralph Keeney is President of the consulting firm, U.S. Marketing and Decisions Group, Inc.,  Professor Emeritus at Duke’s Fuqua School of Business and Professor Emeritus of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Southern California.

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Professor of Economics at University of Nairobi

Leopold P. Mureithi is co-chair of The Millennium Project (TMP) Kenya Node, a consultant on technology, employment, and related development matters, and a member of World Futures Studies Federation (WFSF). A long-time Professor of Economics at the University of Nairobi, Kenya, he has been on fixed-term assignments of limited duration (ALD) as Policy and an issues analyst at UNDP’s African Futures (AF) regional project  to promote long term perspectives thinking in Africa, based in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire.

Lweopold has carried out research at the Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA), and served as a founding team leader, for the Policy Analysis Support Unit (PASU) of the Organization of African Unity (OAU/AU) to build capacity for the African Economic Community, based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Source: Fast Future

c3’s Founder and Executive Director, Producer, Writer

“Over 35 years of professional experience in the the arts and the entertainment industries together with a deep interest and study of human potential, consciousness research and future studies has been my inspiration for the creation of c3: Center for Conscious Creativity and the mission we seek to accomplish.

I hold an MA in Consciousness Studies and have been a student and practitioner of creativity, future trends in the arts and media, and meditation for over 40 years.  As an artist, I work as a producer and content creator in a variety of mediums, am a writer, musician, and photographer.”

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Koffi M. Kouakou is a senior lecturer in government communications and scenario planning and former programme director of the Unilever Mandela Rhodes Academy (UMRA) at the Wits School of Governance, formerly the Graduate School of Public and Development Management (P&DM) at Wits UNiversity. He is also a Long Now futurist, author and social commentator. He is a former co-director of CSIR Virtual Reality Solutions and a small business strategist. He also coordinated the World Bank initiative on environmental information systems initiative in Sub-Saharan Africa in Washington and Pretoria.

Source: Millennium Project

In 2009, Frank founded Kedge – a global foresight, innovation, and strategic design firm which pioneered TFSX. Throughout his career, Frank has worked  as a leadership coach and developer with entrepreneurs, social communities, networking initiatives, and SMEs, helping them in areas such as development, innovation, and networking.

He holds a Master of Arts in Strategic Foresight from Regent University. With a strong background in both business and academic foresight, Frank was the creator and lead instructor of The Futures Institute: Shaping The Future Now at Duke University’s Talent identification Program Institute, teaching students to use Futures Thinking and foresight to develop transformative solutions to grand challenges (2010, 2011).

He has worked on Strategic Foresight projects for companies such as Kraft, Mars, Marriott, and The Walt Disney Company. He is a prolific speaker, having delivered presentations to groups and conferences around the globe for over the last 20 years. Frank holds memberships in World Futures Society (WFS) and Association for Professional Futurists (APF).

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Prior to embarking on his career in academia, Jörn held senior leadership positions in a range of commercial enterprises. In these positions, he spearheaded major initiatives such as the formation of entrepreneurial and intrepreneurial business efforts, expansions of enterprise into new markets, and launches of innovative startup companies. His experience includes work with a range of global business icons, including Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts, Toyota, BMW, and Bang & Olufsen A/S. Working across multiple geographies and cultures has given Jörn a truly international perspective, which informs his thinking about research, process, and execution.

Jörn’s commercial background ensures that his efforts are rooted in human-centered, consumer-focused values and innovations. He has a specific interest in factors that drive new markets, focus on experiential memory constructs and consumption, and leverage co-creation concepts that include various stakeholders.

Dr. Bühring’s current research explores Design Foresight, Strategic Innovation, Vision, and Fiction, within the context of Strategic Design, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation Management. Since 2010, he has conducted several major studies in the sectors of luxury hospitality, omnichannel retailing, and financial services; this includes a series of futures studies in wealth management and private banking to the year 2030.

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Dr. Mara Di Berardo is a seasoned expert in futures studies, communication, and participatory methodologies. She serves as the Communication Director and Italy Node Co-Chair of The Millennium Project, a global think tank with over 70 Nodes dedicated to improving global foresight and collaborative intelligence. Mara has been a vital contributor to the organization since 2007, leading research, events, and communication initiatives.

A prominent voice in the field, Mara is also the Communication Officer for the Foresight Europe Network, where she connects foresight professionals across Europe through participatory vision-building and strategic action planning. Her research includes an analysis of global futures topics, notably as the Principal Investigator for the 2022 Third Futures Research Grant, resulting in the widely cited study on World Futures Day 2022.

Source: Millennium Project

Educational background:
Engineering on Industrial electronics and electricity, Engineering on energy resources

Work Experience:
30+ Years Technical trainer, nearly 25 Years Industrial robotics engineer, 25+ years technical translator, 20+ years investigating on future of technology and its integration on society. Further experience on Solar power, Laser technology, Industrial electronics.

Source: British Interplanetary Society

Aharon Hauptman is senior researcher at TSF/ICTAF since 1988. Dr. Hauptman has a B.Sc from the Technion (Israel Institute of Technology) and Ph.D in Engineering from Tel-Aviv University (1986).

Specializing in the evaluation of trends in emerging technologies and their impacts, he has much experience in Technology Foresight and its relations with research policy and with various application areas. Examples of past/recent activities: Delphi surveys of emerging technologies; foresight in nanobiotechnology; foresight in the area of future unmanned/autonomous systems, “wild cards” and “weak signals”.

He has been involved in several EU FP6 projects (ELOST, Knowledge-NBIC, SSH-FUTURES) and led central work-packages or tasks in the FP7 projects FESTOS (impact of future/emerging technologies on security), PRACTIS (impact of  future technologies on privacy), iKNOW (wild cards and weak signals shaping the future science, technology and innovation policy) and RACE2050 (future transportation scenarios).

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Dr. Thomas Mengel, APF
Retired Professor of Leadership Studies, Renaissance College (RC), University of New Brunswick, Canada

Thomas is a professional futurist, a writer, and a scholar of leadership studies. He has been facilitating learning around leadership and project management for over 30 years. His degrees are in theology, adult education and psychology, history, and computer science (minor in business administration).
Before joining academia, Thomas has held project management and leadership positions in Europe and North America. He is particularly interested in the connections between futures studies and leadership education. As an active member of the International Leadership Association (ILA), the World Future Society (WFS), the World Futures Studies Federation (WFSF), and the Association of Professional Futurists (APF), Thomas tried to imagine and conceptualize what implications learning about the futures might have on learning about and preparing for leadership processes and positions.

At RC, Thomas had included futures perspectives and futures-oriented learning opportunities into his leadership courses. For example, in addition to imagining what leadership in the future might look like, learners engage in questioning their assumptions about the future and in creating personal and professional alternative scenarios.

After his recent retirement from the University of New Brunswick, Thomas co-founded the Killick Coast North Seniors Co-operative and the Sunrise Funeral Co-operative, thereby actively contributing to the implementation of futures-oriented community designs that he continues to reflect and write about.

Source: T. Mengel

Tsvi Bisk is a futurist whose approach is historical and strategic –how to get from here to there in order to achieve “desired” futures.  His expertise ranges from specific Jewish issues, to global development and environmental issues, to the spiritual future of humanity in the space age.

Tsvi keynotes conferences and gatherings with the aim of clearing away the rubble of conventional thinking and ways of doing things. He creates workshops and seminars geared to releasing the creative energies inherent in organizations and individuals.

In collaborating with other futurists and consultants who wish to expand the services they provide to their clients, Tsvi can enrich their offerings in a variety of areas:

• Mitigating the Israeli/Palestinian conflict and its potential effect on the future of the Middle East:
  economically, culturally, socially and constitutionally.
• The future of Israeli-Diaspora relations and its potential impact on the Middle East as well as American
  and European politics.
• Why there are no limits to growth – how science and technology enable a world population of 12 billion
  to achieve an American standard of living with zero negative environ

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Thomas Valone is a physicist and licensed professional engineer with 30 years professional experience, is a patent examiner, research engineer, instrumentation designer and also an author, lecturer, and consultant on future energy developments. He is President and founder of Integrity Research Institute and formerly a community college teacher and a Research Director for Scott Aviation-ATO, Inc.

He helped design the HullCom® for naval intraship communication, a 60 Hz gaussmeter , four bioelectric therapy devices, and an ionizer-precipitator. He is editor of Future Energy, Energetic Processes Vol. I & II, Turning the Corner: Energy Solutions for the 21st Century and a few conference proceedings, as well as author of The Future of Energy: An Emerging Science, Zero Point Energy: The Fuel of the Future, Harnessing the Wheelwork of Nature, Practical Conversion of Zero-Point Energy, Homopolar Handbook, Electrogravitics Vol. I & II, Bioelectromagnetic Healing, Bush-Cheney Energy Study, Clinton Administration Energy Study, Nikola Tesla’s Electricity Unplugged and about 100 published reports and articles.

He has also served as an expert witness, an expert declaration writer for court cases and appeared on CNN, A&E, and the Discovery Channels, besides a few commercial energy videos. He has been a keynote speaker for both the Earth Transformation and the Whole Person Healing Conferences. Currently, Dr. Valone is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, the Bioelectromagnetics Society, the National Space Society and the Union of Concerned Scientists. He is also a Fellow of the World Innovation Foundation. His works have been published in German, French, Russian, Romanian, Korean and English.

Integrity Research Institute, 5020 Sunnyside Avenue, Suite 209, Beltsville MD 20705 at 301-220-0440 and www.IntegrityResearchInstitute.org

Specialties: popular scientific lectures on energy, propulsion, bioenergetics and modern meditation; book authoring

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Professor Carmel teaches Information Technology (I.T.) at American University in Washington, DC. He is currently working on a number of research areas: Digital identity; Crypto ethics; Future of work.

He received his Ph.D., in Management Information Systems from the University of Arizona; his MBA from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), and his B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley.

Source: American University page

A graduate in political science and a doctor of sociology, I am director of the center for study, research and consulting in prospective, SAS proGective , and an associate of Yonders .

My main activity is to support decision-makers, both public and private, in their thinking, strategies and forward-looking approaches, in France and abroad.

To achieve this, I conduct prospective research on major topics relevant to evolution. As part of this, I develop and deliver lectures on the topics to which I devote my work. I also write and publish articles, books, and posts.

My passion is exploring uncharted territory. For over a decade, I’ve been working on the Great Transition we’re currently experiencing, and the chaotic, VUCA world it’s creating. Since 2018, I’ve been devoting my last decade of research to the emerging X.0 development model.

The COVID-19 pandemic has provided a tremendous springboard for the aspirations, creativity, and diverse awareness that have emerged. World X.0 has never seemed so close. I hope to make a significant contribution to its implementation.

Source: Website

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Professor Jennifer Gidley, PhD
Author, Climate Educator, Psychologist, Futures Researcher.
Forbes “World’s Top 50 Female Futurists” List.

Jennifer is a global thought leader and advocate for human-centred futures in an era of hi-tech hype.

She is unique in the Futures world for her exceptional scholarship, mature wisdom, and grounded understanding of people as they face an increasingly uncertain world. Her inspiring human-centred insights speak to all audiences and enable hopeful, yet practical, strategies for creating better futures.

Jennifer’s most recent project is the founding of Global Futures Education, as a platform to provide high-level online education for professionals and executives. Over several years she has created a series of executive-level online courses on ‘Grand Global Futures Challenges and Solutions’.

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Elizabeth Florescu is Director of Research of The Millennium Project. She has been with the Project since 1997.

Elizabeth is an economist and analyst-programmer with over 20 years of experience in futures research. She was also policy analyst at the European Commission (2016-2019) and has done extensive work in operational research (using fuzzy logic), foreign trade, diplomacy, and security-related domains.

Source: Millennium Project page

Luke established an independent strategic foresight practice in 2021, building on two decades of “been there, done that” service in the transport and agrifood domains of the Singapore public sector – across a breadth of leadership and foresight-focussed roles in policy, planning, international relations, national security, operations, infrastructure, risk management, corporate governance, strategic communications, and people development.

Luke’s work has involved engagement with a plethora of political, policy, enterprise, and civil society actors and organisations across Southeast Asia, Africa, the Americas, Europe, and Oceania, as well as at international bodies including the G20, UN Food and Agriculture Organisation, the UNDP, APEC, and ASEAN – imparting perspectives and experiences which have spurred his passion to advance international and cross-sectoral dialogue and collaboration for sustainable development.

Source: Chandler page

William R Kramer earned a bachelor’s degree in wildlife biology, master’s in environmental policy and public administration, and doctorate in political science with an emphasis in outer space policy and futures studies.

He spent most of his career as a wildlife biologist with the Smithsonian Institution and the US Fish and Wildlife Service, where he spent nearly two decades working on endangered species conservation issues in Hawaii and the Pacific region. He retired as head of the US Endangered Species Recovery Program.

After his first retirement, he assisted the US Navy’s Pacific Fleet for 12 years as a senior environmental scientist, taught bioethics and biology at Hawaii Pacific University, and worked at HDR, Inc. as their extraterrestrial environmental analyst. His experiences include Mission Commander at the Mars Desert Research Station and ground support for the Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation Facility.

Since 2013, William continues to lecture and lead workshops on outer space exploration and development issues related to futures studies, bioethics, and environmental ethics at the International Space University in Strasbourg, France, and other locations.

Source: Blackburn International

Psychologist · Futures Strategist · Cultural Innovator

I work at the intersection of systems thinking, ecological intelligence, and moral imagination—helping individuals, organizations, and creative teams design futures that support human and planetary flourishing through applied psychology.

My work bridges research, wellness, technology, and the arts. Whether I’m consulting with leaders on ethical innovation, guiding people into deeper relationship with the more-than-human world, or creating immersive story systems for social transformation, my purpose is the same:

To help us remember how to be fully human in an accelerating world.

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Dr. Peter C. Bishop is the Exec Director of Teach the Future, Inc., having retired as an Associate Professor of Strategic Foresight and Director of the graduate program in Foresight at the University of Houston in August 2013.

Before establishing Teach the Future, Dr. Bishop specialized in techniques for long term forecasting and planning, and he has published two books on the subject: Thinking about the Future (2007) and Teaching about the Future (2012), both with co-author Andy Hines.

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With over three decades of organisational change and foresight experience, LASA CEO Patricia Lustig has worked with leaders worldwide to anticipate change and shape the future. An internationally respected consultant, author, and practitioner in strategic foresight, Patricia brings unparalleled expertise in futures thinking, strategy development, and innovation.

Her portfolio includes collaborations with the UK Government Office for Science, the European Commission, and the Construction Industry Training Board. Patricia has been featured by Harvard Business Review, invited to the inaugural Dubai Futures Forum, and is a thought leader in futures strategy, regularly publishing insights and co-authoring groundbreaking works such as the award winning Strategic Foresight: Learning from the Future and her most recent book, co-authored with Gill Ringland, The Possibility Wheel: Making Better Choices in a Fractured World.

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Antonio Yukio Ueta received his BSc in Physics from University of São Paulo (1978-1981), MSc in Plasma Physics from University of São Paulo (1982-1985), PhD in Semiconductor Physics from Johannes Kepler Universitaet-Linz, Austria (1993-1997). From July 1985 to May 2018 he was a federal civil servant of the National Institute for Space Research-INPE, where he had the opportunity to work in the areas of space technology, material research and management.

He was responsible for the implementation of the Chemical Contamination Analysis Laboratory of LIT/INPE (1985-1991); Senior Technologist at the Associated Laboratory of Materials and Sensors – LAS/INPE (1991-2003); Technical Assistant to the Director of INPE (2003-2006); Technical Advisor to the Director of INPE (2006-2016). During his career at INPE, he participated of training at the Institute of Space and Astronautical Sciences-ISAS, Japan, from September to December 1989, having followed the final phase of integration of the MUSES-A micro satellite and the MUSES-A Lunar Orbiter. He was a participant of the Summer Space Program-SSP07 of the International Space University-ISU, China (2007), having participated in the “Space Traffic Management” team project. He also has an MBA-FGV in Strategic Management of S&T in Public Research Institutions-IPP’s (2008-2010).

He was Deputy Academic Coordinator of the Space Studies Program-SSP10/ISU, France (2010); Academic Coordinator of the Southern Hemisphere Space Studies Program-SHSSP/ISU, Australia, in 2011 and 2012 and Co-Chair of the Space Applications department of the SSP21/ISU, France (2021). He is an Adjunct Faculty at the International Space University. He was a member of the Organizing Committee and speaker of the 2018 and 2019 Winter Course of Introduction to Space Technologies at INPE. He gives lectures for students in elementary, middle and higher education, as well as the general public, on topics related to futures studies and space applications. He is a member of the World Futures Studies Federation and Association of Professional Futurists.

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Joseph N. Pelton, Ph.D., is the Chairman of the Board of the Alliance for Collaboration in the Exploration of Space (ACES Worldwide). He is the Dean emeritus and former Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the International Space University. He is the Founder of the Arthur C. Clarke Foundation and the founding President of the Society of Satellite Professionals International—now known as the Space and Satellite Professionals International (SSPI).

Dr. Pelton currently serves on the Executive Board of the International Association for the Advancement of Space Safety. He is the Director Emeritus of the Space and Advanced Communications Research Institute (SACRI) at George Washington University, where he also served as Director of the Accelerated Masters’ Program in Telecommunications and Computers from 1998 to 2004.

Paul Werbos is best known (and most cited) for the original discovery of backpropagation, and for the theorem establishing its validity, as part of his PhD thesis in Applied Mathematics for Harvard in 1974. Even before 1974, he had developed backpropagation as one element of a more general approach to reinforcement learning, which combined a new way to learn to approximate dynamic programming with key insights from Freud’s theory of how learning works in neurons of the brain.

He inaugurated the field which we now know of as RLADP, Reinforcement Learning and Approximate Dynamic Programming, building on this earlier work, his later papers, and on the research area of Adaptive and Intelligent Systems at NSF which he led from 1988 to 2015. This included neural networks, adaptive fuzzy logic, and a major paradigm shift in how to understand intelligence in the brain, which has passed tests on the best real-time brain data (Werbos and Davis 2016).

Source: Regulating AI

Robin L. Champ is a visionary leader in strategic foresight and strategy management, currently serving as the Vice President, Strategic Foresight at LBL Strategies and an instructor at Harvard Extension School. She is a Certified Strategy Management Professional (SMP) through the International Association for Strategy Professionals (IASP), where she also serves as Co-Chair of the Government Community of Practice (IASP-GovCoP). With a distinguished career spanning key roles in both the Department of Defense and the U.S. Secret Service, Robin brings unparalleled expertise to the table.

Retired as the Chief of the Enterprise Strategy Division at the United States Secret Service, Robin led the organization’s foresight and strategic planning efforts. Notably, she also co-chaired the Federal Foresight Community of Interest, showcasing her commitment to advancing foresight practices across government.

Source: LBL Strategies page

Randall Rollinson is the Founder and President of LBL Strategies, a federally-certified veteran-owned business and nationally-recognized leader in the practical application of strategic management principles, tools and techniques. LBL Strategies is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Since 1985, Randall has served more than 3000 organizations across sectors with a targeted set of strategic management education, training, consulting and certification preparation services. He has a special interest in governmental agencies, nonprofit associations, and other “mission driven” organizations where governance and strategy execution issues are often a major consideration.

Source: LBL Strategies

For 40+ years, I taught at California State University, Dominguez Hills—on Global Futures, Peace/Nonviolence, and Intercultural/Interfaith topics, with about 90 articles published in these areas, books forthcoming, and participation in global-local professional and community organizations active in these areas. I also taught at other universities in the U.S., Canada, Japan, & Europe.

Mission Statement

To me the only “game in town” is how we human beings are going to learn to live together on this planet, in a way that not only lets us survive, but increasingly meets the needs of people on this planet, so that human creativity and spirit can be unleashed and humanity as a whole and in its wonderful diversity can evolve, using technology to improve our lives, while also living in harmony with, and as caretakers of, our natural environment, planet earth.  I am committed to do my small part to see that these goals are achieved. The human journey is also one of pushing back ever more boundaries to explore the infinity of our outer and inner lives and realities. This is the ultimate human journey and future of human evolution.

Source: Amazon Books

Thomas Lombardo, Ph.D. is the Director of the Center for Future Consciousness, Editor of Future Consciousness Insights (previously Wisdom and the Future), and Professor Emeritus and Retired Faculty Chair of Psychology, Philosophy, and the Future at Rio Salado College, Tempe, Arizona. He is an Executive Board member and Fellow of the World Futures Studies Federation, a special honor given to members who have made a globally recognized original contribution to futures studies. He is also past Director of The Wisdom Page.

A national and internationally recognized researcher, writer, and speaker, he has published thirteen books and over sixty articles, and given roughly the same number of professional national and international presentations on topics including: the history of scientific and philosophical thought; wisdom, character virtues, and the future of education; future consciousness and contemporary futurist thought; dystopian and utopian thought; theories of the future; the evolution of science fiction; and the future evolution of consciousness and mind.

Source: Center for Future Consciousness

I am a Professor (Research) at Vision Research Institute. After completing B.E. (Electrical Engg.) at M.A.C.T. Bhopal and Part I of M.Tech. at I.I.T. Kanpur in India, I moved to USA to do M.S. (Computer Science) at Iowa State University, Ph.D. (Biophysics) at University of Illinois, and postdoctoral fellowship in color vision psychophysics at University of Chicago.

Further researches in visual psychophysics, neuroscience, and fMRI were at York University (Canada), New England College of Optometry (Boston), and Harvard Medical Schools (Schepens Eye Research Institute and McLean Hospital).

Source: Vision Research Institute

Emeritus Professor of Strategic Management, London South Bank University

Dr Bruce Lloyd,  Emeritus Professor of Strategic Management, spent over 20 years in industry and finance before joining the academic world twenty years ago to help establish the Management Centre at what is now London South Bank University. He has a Degree in Chemical Engineering; MSc (Economics) / MBA from the London Business School (1968) and a PhD (by published work) for his work on ‘The Future of Offices and Office Work: Implications for Organisational Strategy’.

Since the late 1960’s he has written extensively (about 200 published articles) on a wide range of strategy/futures related issues, including articles exploring the link between Leadership, Power and Responsibility and, more recently, the relationship between Leadership, Wisdom, Knowledge Management and Organisational Performance. He has undertaken over 30 interviews on leadership/management related issues for various journals. He was also the UK co-ordinator for ‘The Millennium Project’ 1999-2005.  Currently he works part-time for the University, particularly on PhD supervision.

Source: Fast Future page

Dr. Karina Vissonova is the founding director of the Advanced Design Studies Institute and a researcher in design philosophy, specialising in future material wellbeing, sustainable societies, and the evolution of design education. With a Ph.D. in Design from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and over 25 years of experience in research and development, her work contributes to advancing design education through transdisciplinary frameworks. She currently lectures at Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design in Budapest and serves as a research fellow at the MOME Foundation, where she bridges futures studies and speculative design methodologies.

Dr. Vissonova curates interdisciplinary art-science exhibitions, and her publications include peer-reviewed papers, contributions to journal special issues on sustainable design futures, book chapters, and two books published through her institute. A member of the World Futures Studies Federation, she researches at the intersection of speculative design, sustainability studies, and design philosophy.

Dr. Karina Vissonova is the founding director of the Advanced Design Studies Institute and a researcher in design philosophy, specialising in future material wellbeing, sustainable societies, and the evolution of design education. With a Ph.D. in Design from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and over 25 years of experience in research and development, her work contributes to advancing design education through transdisciplinary frameworks. She currently lectures at Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design in Budapest and serves as a research fellow at the MOME Foundation, where she bridges futures studies and speculative design methodologies.

Dr. Vissonova curates interdisciplinary art-science exhibitions, and her publications include peer-reviewed papers, contributions to journal special issues on sustainable design futures, book chapters, and two books published through her institute. A member of the World Futures Studies Federation, she researches at the intersection of speculative design, sustainability studies, and design philosophy.

Timothy E. Dolan is principal of Policy Foresight and faculty at DMS Academy. He is an alumnus of the Manoa School of Futures Studies and contemporary of such prominent futurists as Sohail Inayathulla, Wendy Schultz, and Chris Jones.

He is the author of over 35 articles and book chapters on anticipatory public policy. His current project is a book on the biotech revolution and market-driven evolution. He has designed numerous graduate-level courses on various topics relating to foresight/futures studies.

Source: DMS Academy

Dr Marcus Bussey is an educator and futurist with more than 40 years’ experience. He has taught widely throughout Australia having spent 5 years at a yoga based neohumanist school, 4 years in an urban community school run by a parent cooperative, 7 years in Montessori primary and high schools, and 20 years at USC where he currently teaches world history and the philosophy of history. He is also heavily involved with supervision of higher degree students and is deeply committed to the University’s goals of increased research capacity and quality research with high impact. Marcus is also the Deputy Head, UniSC Sustainability Research Centre where he is involved with a range of sustainability and environmental communication research projects.

In 2014 Marcus was awarded a Taiwan Fellowship for 2014. This fellowship allowed him to work with colleagues at Tamkang University and the National Taiwan University on developing futures thinking in undergraduate engineering students. The outcomes of this research engagement appeared in the research paper he publishes with Song, Mei Mei Song and Hsieh (Patrick) Shang-Hsien: Anticipatory Imagination as a Tool for Rethinking Engineering Education which appeared in the Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice.

His most recent article is entitled: Navigating the Ruins of the Future.

Source: University of the Sunshine Coast

Rakesh Kapoor is a researcher, writer, editor and founder-managing trustee of Alternative Futures. Rakesh works on the interface of science, technology, society and the future and on issues of sustainable development. He is Consulting Editor of Futures: the journal of policy, planning and futures studies (www.elsevier.com/locate/futures).

He was Director of the World Futures Studies Federation (www.wfsf.org) – a global community of futurist thinkers, scientists and consultants from 2008 to 2014. See detailed c.v.

Bill’s Vision

As an aerospace engineer on Apollo, an Air Force officer, a Silicon Valley manager, professor of technology & innovation, and founder of TechCast, I have always been fascinated with the revolutionary power of technology driving us into a high-tech global order. My work is devoted to helping us figure out where this profound transition is heading, what it all means, and how we can get there.

Source: William Halal and Associates Website