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

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

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

Khazal Al Majidi (Arabic: خزعل الماجدي; born 1951) is an Iraqi author who has written on the history of religions and civilizations. He is also a poet and playwright.

Al Majidi is the author of more than 50 works in Arabic, whose themes vary between religious studies and civilizations, poetry, and plays. Much of his work has been translated into English, French, Spanish, Persian and Kurdish[

Source: Wikipedia

Source: Space for Humanity page

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.

Professor, Department of Sociology and social research at the UniTrento Digital University.

Expertise: Anticipation theory, Epistemology, Future studies, Innovation studies, Philosophy of science, Philosophy of the social sciences, Social sciences, Systems theory

B.A. in Sociology, with honours, at the University of Trento (1980).
Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Utrecht (Netherlands) in 2001.

Memberships in societies and scientific committees
AFI-Associazione dei Futuristi Italiani (President)
-skopìa (President)
Editor in chief of Axiomathes (Springer)
Member of the editorial advisory board of the journals Futures and European Journal of Futures Research
Editor of the series Anticipation Science (Springer)

Source: UniTrento Digital University