Our People
Performance artist, writer, and musician; creator, "Home of the Brave," "Stories for the Nerve Bible," "Songs and Stories from Moby Dick" and "Homeland"
Economist and computer scientist and pioneer in complexity sciences and innovation; visiting researcher, PARC; external professor, Santa Fe Institute; fellow, Econometric Society, World Economic Forum; author, The Economy as an Evolving Complex System, and The Nature of Technology
Writer-consultant on cyberspace, information economics, and privacy; co-founder, Electronic Frontier Foundation; fellow, Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet and Society; lyricist, Grateful Dead; Wyoming rancher
Anthropologist specializing in consumer research and trends, branding, and strategy; CEO, BardoConsulting; radio show host; former strategist with OgilvyOne, Citibank, and Nissan
Anthropologist; president, Institute for Intercultural Studies; fellow, International Leadership Forum; professor emerita, George Mason University; author, Composing a Life and Full Circles, Overlapping Lives
Economic and community development advisor, Metropolis Strategies/Chicago Community Trust; former executive director, Chicago Metropolis 2020, launching infrastructure, justice, education, and quality of life initiatives; former president, Inland International
Specialist in global workforce management, government relations, and technology policy with more than 35 years of experience in the technology industry; former EVP and chair, EMEA, APAC, and the Americas, Sun Microsystems
Physician and U.S. Rear Admiral; clinical professor, Georgetown and Tufts University Schools of Medicine; director of the health and medicine program, Center for the Study of the Presidency; senior policy and medical advisor, the Foundation for AIDS Research; former U.S. assistant surgeon general and senior global health advisor, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; founding deputy assistant secretary, Women’s Health
Strategist, global/local brand equity assessment and positioning; restaurateur (Obiko, Los Angeles); founder, Boggia Partners, Milan and Los Angeles; former vice president, Fiat Group; author, Time of Uncertainty
Economist; executive director, Center for Energy, Marine Transportation and Public Policy, Columbia University; former vice president, Global Business Environment, Shell International; founder, Prométhée, Paris; coauthor, In the Company of Visions and Enhanced Transparency: Meeting European Investors Needs
Epidemiologist and philanthropist; president,the Skoll Foundation's Urgent Threats Fund; first executive director, Google.org; leader of WHO's smallpox eradication in Southeast Asia; former international health professor; founder, four technology companies and the Seva Foundation to combat blindness in developing countries
Literary and software agent; president, Edge Foundation; author/editor, The Third Culture: Beyond the Scientific Revolution, Digerati: Encounters with the Cyber Elite, The Greatest Inventions of the Past 2000 Years, and Curous Minds, How a Child Becomes a Scientist
Qualitative market researcher and strategic advisor focused on Gen Y trendsetters; president and founder, Outlaw Consulting; founder, Open a Door (mentoring Rwandan students); former advertising executive
Architect and planner of environmentally progressive community development and "new urbanism" design; author, The Regional City: Planning for the End of Sprawl and Urbanism in the Age of Climate Change
Neurobiologist and climate change expert, University of Washington; author, Conversations with Neil's Brain,The Cerebral Code, A Brain for All Seasons: Human Evolution and Abrupt Climate Change and Global Fever
Physicist exploring the future of biology as human technology; principal , Biodesic, LLC; senior associate, Bio Economic Research Associates, author, Biology is Technology
Technology entrepreneur and philanthropist; cofounder, ICPlanet and Broderbund Software; trustee, Santa Fe Institute; board chair, Public Radio International, the Carlston Family Foundation; board member, MoveOn Political Action Committee, the Ploughshares Fund, the Albanian American Enterprise Fund,the Long Now Foundation
Founder/executive director, Hybrid Vigor Institute; senior research scholar, engineering and public policy, Carnegie Mellon University; former New York Times technology and innovation columnist; author, Intervention: Confronting the Real Risks of Genetic Engineering and Life on a Biotech Planet
Demographer, specializing in South and Western Asia; research director, Center for Migration Studies; former director, United Nations population division; 25 years with the U.N.
Journalism pioneer and executive director, Bay Area Institute/Pacific News Service; founder, YO! (Youth Outlook) and New California Media; MacArthur fellow
Marketing and management innovator; founder and executive chairman, Joie de Vivre Hospitality; philanthropist; author, Emotional Equations, Peak, Marketing that Matters, The Rebel Rules
Innovator on organizations, executive and leadership development, and culture; founder, The Delano Network; managing partner, Pivotal Leadership, Singapore; former chief learning officer, Kodak, and senior Monitor Group consultant; chair, Organization Development Network
Founder and chair, Corporate Renewal Associates and The Chairman's Club, London, specializing in complex organizational change and management
Nanotechnology pioneer; chief technical advisor, Nanorex; chief technical consultant, Technology Roadmap for Production Nanosystems; author, Engines of Creation: The Coming Era of Nanotechnology and Unbounding the Future, and "Revolutionizing the Future of Technology"
Journalist and syndicated columnist on international affairs; military analyst; documentary radio and filmmaker; author, War, Future Tense, and Climate Wars
Journalist and blogger; entrepreneur; evangelist and venture capitalist for emerging technology and healthcare; trained cosmonaut; founding publisher/editor, Release 1.0; former chair, ICANN; and author, Release 2.0
Physicist, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University; author of 13 books, including Infinite in All Directions and Disturbing the Universe; recipient, Templeton Prize for progress in religion
Inventor and pioneer in personal, interpersonal, and organizational computing; founder, The Bootstrap Institute; author, Boosting Our Collective IQ
Economist and cofounder, Serengeti Advisors, Tanzania; former head of strategy and investment banking, African Banking Corporation; involved in multiple scenario-building efforts throughout Africa
Poet; scenario writer; professor emeritus, English, University of Texas; former director, the LBJ Presidential Library; author/coauthor of eight books, including The Power of Myth, Healing and the Mind, and Presence
International political economist; senior fellow, Stanford University and former professor, Johns Hopkins University; former deputy director, U.S. Department of State; author, The End of History, Trust, Our Posthuman Future, and The Origins of Political Order
Educator, activist and citizen diplomat; former president, Oberlin College and professor, theoretical physics; author, Somebodies and Nobodies: Overcoming the Abuse of Rank
Award-winning singer, song-writer, composer, and world music advocate and producer; human rights activist; cofounder, WOMAD, On Demand Distribution (OD2), and the WITNESS Project
Technology entrepreneur and investor pioneering sustainable business models; founder Ofoto and GNN; cofounder, Dos Margaritas, an environmental foundation focused on Latin America; author, The Mesh: Why the Future of Business is Sharing and cofounder, the Mesh Directory
Geographic demographer and cultural commentator; professor of law, culture and values at Arizona State University's law school; fellow, New America Foundation; former senior writer, The Washington Post; author, The Nine Nations of North America, Edge City, and Radical Evolution
Adviser, World Bank, government and financial institutions; visiting fellow, London Business School; former director, Shell International Petroleum; author, The Living Company
Science fiction writer, Neuromancer, Mona Lisa Overdrive, All Tomorrow's Parties, Pattern Recognition,Spook Country, and Zero History
International water authority, including impacts of climate change, sustainable use, human health, privatization, globalization, and international conflicts; co-founder and president, Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment, and Security; author, Bottled and Sold: The Story Behind Our Obsession with Bottled Water
Scientist and inventor; program director, Innovations in International Health, MIT, delivering transformative health care technologies for the developing world; director, D-Lab: Health, MIT; co-inventor, Aorovax; cofounder, X out TB
Education innovator and consultant; former Vice Chancellor and CEO, The Open University, UK; former Vice Chancellor and CEO, University of Natal, South Africa; founding board member, the Centre for Higher Education Transformation
Inventor, materials scientist and engineer; founder of Squid Labs, Potenco, Makani Power; columnist, Make magazine; co-author, HowToons comic book for young inventors
Organizational psychologist and creator of dilemma theory; cofounder, Trompenaars Hampden-Turner Group; visiting professor and fellow in entrepreneurship studies, Essex University; author, The Seven Cultures of Capitalism, Mastering the Infinite Game, and 21 Leaders for the 21st Century
Political analyst and journalist; author of 11 books, including Our War (on Vietnam), The Last Stand (on old-growth forests), Shooting the Moon (on Manuel Noriega), The Crisis (on Iran), and The Genius (on legendary football coach Bill Walsh)
Scenario and strategic planner specializing in energy and utilities, nonprofits, and communities of color; former practitioner, GBN, and strategist, PG&E and Bechtel; author, The Art of Quantum Planning
Environmentalist and entrepreneur; cofounder, The Natural Capital Institute, WiserEarth, Metacode, Groxis, and Smith & Hawken; chair, The Natural Step; coauthor, Natural Capitalism; author, Growing a Business, The Ecology of Commerce, and Blessed Unrest
Scenarist; associate fellow, Said Business School and professor emeritus, Strathclyde University, Glasgow; former head of scenario planning, Royal Dutch Shell; author, Scenarios: The Art of Strategic Conversation; coauthor, The Sixth Sense
Geographer and scenarist specializing in public/private development processes in advanced and developing countries and managing in times of systemic transition; author, Feeling for Stones
Inventor and computer scientist; cofounder, Applied Minds and The Long Now Foundation; former Disney fellow and vice president, R&D; founder, Thinking Machines; author, The Pattern in the Stone
Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and presidential advisor; former professor, environmental policy, Harvard University and president and director of the Woods Hole Research Center; chair, executive committee, Pugwash conferences; author; MacArthur fellow
Economist; undersecretary of state for energy, environment and agriculture; former vice chair, Goldman Sachs International; author, Reforming the International Monetary Systems
Political scientist and visual communicator at Stanford University, specializing in complex, wicked problems and social messes like global climate change; founder, Information Mapping. Inc.; author, Visual Language: Global Communication for the 21st Century
Authority on innovation and technology-enabled collaboration, communications, and community; chancellor, Cogswell College; former executive director, Media X, Stanford University; former executive at technology startups, Intel and, for 28 years, HP; author, The HP Phenomenon
CEO and cofounder, Current TV; founder, Hyatt Legal Plans and Hyatt Legal Services; Stanford entrepreneurship professor; coauthor, The Long Boom
Cofounder, Generon Consulting and The Global Institute for Responsible Leadership; former head of scenario planning, Royal Dutch/Shell; author, Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership and Source: The Inner Path of Knowledge Creation, coauthor, Presence
Healthcare and community advocate and educator; cofounder,the Center for Global Service and the Food Commons initiative; former president, Health Forum
Physician and advisor on advanced medical science, technologies, and national security threats; formerly managed research initiatives at the ASU Biodesign Institute, the National Reconnaisance Office (DOD), and DARPA; retired Navy commander and assistant professor, National Naval Medical Center
Venture partner, Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byer, concentrating on green technlogy; cofounder and former chief scientist, Sun Microsystems; software architect and technology futurist; author, "Why the Future Doesn't Need Us"
Partner, Reos Partners; cofounder, The Global Leadership Initiative; facilitator, national scenario projects in South Africa (Mont Fleur), Colombia, Guatemala; author, Solving Tough Problems and Power and Love: A Theory and Practice of Social Change
Serial innovator, entrepreneur, and advisor on corporate innovation and transformation; director, Bay Area Science and Innovation Consortium; chair, the Institute for Large Scale Innovation; film and Broadway producer; former director, executive innovation programs at Harvard and Stanford; author, Innovation Nation and Jamming
Writer on technology, culture, and change; senior maverick, cofounder, and former executive editor, Wired; cofounder, The Long Now Foundation; author, Out of Control: The Rise of Neo-Biological Civilization, New Rules for the New Economy, and What Technology Wants
Editor-in-chief, strategy + business; adjunct assistant professor, New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program; author, The Age of Heretics and Who Really Matters; coauthor, The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook, Dances with Change, and Schools That Learn
Advisor on corporate strategy, finance, and international business; co-dean, Duisenberg School of Finance, Amsterdam; former executive at AT&T, PepsiCo, Royal Dutch Shell, and investment banker at Bear Stearns and Morgan Stanley; author, Profit Power Economics
Digital media blogger, journalist, and rock musician; director, international communications, Chinese search engine Baidu; former director, digital media, Ogilvy China; former Beijing bureau chief, Red Herring; founding lead guitarist, Tang Dynasty
Cognitive linguist; professor of linguistics, U.C. Berkeley; author, Metaphors We Live By, Moral Politics, and Philosophy in the Flesh: How the Embodied Mind Challenges the Western Tradition, Don't Think of an Elephant, and The Political Mind
Composer and musician; computer scientist; visual artist; writer; virtual reality pioneer; lead scientist, The National Tele-immersion Initiative; interdisciplinary scholar-in-residence, UC Berkeley; author, You Are Not a Gadget
Independent film writer/producer; co-producer,War Games, Awakenings, and Sneakers
Economist and specialist in scenario and strategy development; cofounder, Fairsights; former president, GBN Europe; 25 years in planning and management with Royal Dutch/Shell; musician and former Olympian
Integrative thinker on governance, learning, health, and policy; cofounder, International Futures Forum, Scotland; former diplomat (EU and China); co-author, Ten Things to do in a Conceptual Emergency; author, Transformative Innovation in Education and Beyond Survival
Founding partner, US Ventures; cofounder, Interval Research; former computer science professor at Stanford University and chair, Santa Fe Institute board of trustees
Energy efficiency and sustainability pioneer; cofounder and director of research, Rocky Mountain Institute; founder of Hypercar Inc., MacArthur fellow; author or coauthor of 31 books, including Natural Capitalism, Winning the Oil Endgame, and Reinventing Fire: Bold Business Solutions for the New Energy Era
Geologist, structural engineer and architect, specializing in sustainable and thoughtful design. Heads Global Foresight + Innovation initiative at Arup, a global design and engineering firm. Author, Drivers of Change 2009
Organizational psychologist; consultant, leadership and strategy and lecturer, Said Business School, Oxford; president, The Maccoby Group; author, The Gamesman, Why Work?, Narcissistic Leaders and The Leaders We Need
Historian, philosopher, and dean/professor, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy; career Singaporean diplomat, including ambassador to the UN and permanent secretary of the foreign ministry; author, Can Asians Think and The New Asian Hemisphere
Authority on foreign policy and finance; former vice-chairman, World Economic Forum and minister of state, UK foreign office, covering Africa and Asia, member of Gordon Brown's cabinet, UN deputy secretary-general, UNDP administrator, and World Bank vice president; member, House of Lords
Professor, management, MIT Sloan School; director, MIT Center for Coordination Science and the Inventing the Organzations of the 21st Century Initiative; author, The Future of Work
Science and technology writer; author, Machines Who Think and Aaron's Code; coauthor, The Futures of Women
Economist and environmentalist, specializing in global energy policy; international climate change negotiator; former editor, Global Change
President, Comprehensive Crisis Management; professor emeritus and founder, the Center for Crisis Management, University of Southern California; author, Business NOT as Usual, Smart Thinking for Crazy Times, Dirty Rotten Strategies, and Swans, Swine, and Swindlers: Coping With The Growing Threat of Mega Crises and Mega Messes
Cofounder, Esalen Institute; author, The Kingdom of Shivas Irons, Golf in the Kingdom, and The Future of the Body; coauthor, The Life We Are Given
International energy consultant; former head of scenario planning, Royal Dutch Shell
Clinical psychologist; educator, writer, and innovator in human and gender relations, organizational and relational psychology, and myths and consciousness; chair, department of psychology, National University (CA); coauthor, Ten Things To Do in a Conceptual Emergency
GBN cofounder, philosopher, and educator; former dean, Presidio Graduate School and Yale professor; former research director for SRI International’s Values and Lifestyles Program. Author, Facing the Fold: Essays on Scenario Planning; Creating Better Futures: Scenario Planning as a Tool for a Better Tomorrow, and Living Without a Goal.
Philanthropist and entrepreneur; chair and CEO, Omidyar Network; chair, eBay
Motion picture producer and writer; P+M Productions; former president, Dreamworks SKG and Amblin Entertainment; films include "Sweeney Todd," "The Kite Runner," "Gladiator," "Minority Report"
President and founder, the Arlington Institute; specialist in national security issues; author, Out of the Blue: Wild Cards and Other Big Future Surprises and The Road to 2015
Consultant, long-range planning, U.S. Secretary of Defense; former assistant undersecretary of defense and congressional adviser on national security, intelligence, and Asia; author, Chinese Views of Future Warfare
Professor, Harvard Business School, specializing in the competitive advantage of companies, nations, and regions, and the application of competitive principles to social problems such as health care, the environment, and corporate responsibility; cofounder, Monitor Consulting; author of 18 books including Competitive Strategy and The Competitive Advantage of Nations; coauthor, Can Japan Compete?
Strategist and scenarist; fellow, Oxford University and director, Oxford Scenarios Programme; author, Designing Interactive Strategy and Prime Movers; coauthor, Agents of Change: Crossing the Post-Industrial Divide
Writer, futurist, entrepreneur; president, Morning Star Imports; former legislative assistant; coauthor, Nuclear Weapons Decision Making and The Futures of Women
Author, Tools for Thought, The Virtual Community, Smart Mobs; founder, Electric Minds; two-decade track record of foreseeing and interpreting the societal impacts of information and communications technologies
Brand strategy, design, and communications specialist and founder, Studioriley; media entrepreneur; former head of planning, graphic design group, Apple, Inc. and head of strategic planning, Wieden + Kennedy worldwide
Scholar, Resources for the Future, focusing on regulatory reform, energy policy, and climate change; former member, U.S. National Economic Council; former regional coordinator, BP Europe, author, "Getting Off Oil"
Strategist, forecaster, and essayist on long term technological change; lecturer, Stanford University; member, national and corporate science advisory boards
Entrepreneur; bio- and nano-tech venture, technical, and management adviser; biochemist; founder, Nanosolar, a nanotechnology-based solar energy company; new classical music composer
Attorney specializing in technology, public policy, and politics; partner, O’Melveny & Meyers; former assistant secretary, U.S. Department of Commerce; presidential campaign strategist
Political scientist specializing in regional economic development and information technology; dean, School of Information and professor, city and regional planning, U.C. Berkeley; author, Regional Advantage and Silicon Valley's New Immigrant Entrepreneurs
Director, the Asia Society Center on U.S.-China Relations; former dean, Graduate School of Journalism, U.C. Berkeley; China scholar and journalist; author of 14 books, including Discos and Democracy, Mandate of Heaven, and Virtual Tibet
Writer and consultant on digital innovation, collaboration, and risk management; fellow, Sloan School of Management's Center for Digital Business; author, Shared Minds and Serious Play
Pioneering scenario planner and strategist and GBN cofounder; senior vice president, global relations and strategic planning, Salesforce; former head of scenario planning, Royal Dutch Shell and director of the Strategic Environment Center, SRI International; author of five books, including The Art of the Long View; and Inevitable Surprises.
Consultant, satellite technology and space development; Apollo 9 astronaut; cofounder, Association of Space Explorers and the B612 Foundation (addressing astereoids)
Consultant and writer on the social, cultural, and economic effects of internet technologies; joint NYU appointments in the Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) and jourmalism department; author, Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing without Organizations and Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age
Organizational consultant and information designer; founder, The Grove Consultants, specializing in the design, development, and distribution of tools for collaboration, author, Visual Meetings and Visual Teams
Film and television director ("Star Trek," "Hill Street Blues"); story teller; consultant on digital technology in entertainment and media
Anthropologist; president, NetForm, specializing in research and consulting on human/social networks, innovation, and organizational change; visiting professor of management, Erasmus University
Science fiction writer, The Hacker Crackdown, Holy Fire, Distraction, and Tomorrow Now: Envisioning the Next Fifty Years; popular science journalist; catalyst, the Viridian movement; design instructor
Strategy professor, Harvard Business School; former founding dean, Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo; coauthor, The Knowledge Creating Company, Can Japan Compete? and Extreme Toyota
Scenarist,strategist, and pioneer in sustainability and industrial ecology and design; founder, Synthesys Strategic Conuslting, U.K.; former consultant, Global Business Network and Arthur D. Little
Pioneer in complexity research; professor of computer science, Columbia University and the Santa Fe Institute; author, Complexity and Information
World authority on cross-cultural management; cofounder, Trompenaars Hampden-Turner Group; author/coauthor of 14 books,including Seven Cultures of Capitalism, Riding the Waves of Culture, Riding the Waves of Innovation, Twenty-One Leaders and The Global M and A Tango: Cross-cultural Dimensions of Mergers and Acquisitions
Digital sociologist, professor, and director, Initiative on Technology and Self, MIT; author, The Second Self, Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet, and Alone Together
Advisor, corporate strategist and scenario planner. Former global head of strategy for investment banking and EMEA, Nomura International; former co-president and scenario/strategy consultant, GBN; former head of strategy, Morgan Stanley-Europe
Economist; Chan Chair in Global Management, Haas Business School, U.C. Berkeley; former dean, London Business School and U.C. Berkeley's Haas School of Business; former National Economic Adviser to President Clinton and chair, council of economic advisers; author, Who’s Bashing Whom?: Trade Conflict in High Technology Industries
Science fiction writer and Hugo winner A Fire Upon the Deep, A Deepness in the Sky and Rainbow’s End;retired professor of mathematics and computer science, San Diego State University
Specialist on Russian and Eastern European transformation; board member, German Institute for International and Security Affairs, Berlin; retired professor and author of eight books including After the Revolutions: East-West Trade and Technology Transfer in the 1990s
Analyst of sociocultural change in Europe and North America; founder, Groupe Cofremca and Sociovision, Paris; author, Toward the Third Modernity
Pioneer in sustainable development and metrics; executive director, Global Footprint Network; co-creator, the Ecological Footprint; author, Our Ecological Footprint
Political scientist specializing in international and national political economy and security; professor and director, Institute of International Studies, U.C. Berkeley; author, The End of Arrogance: America in the Global Competition of Ideas; The Success of Open Source
Principal, Weinberg Associates; specialist in renewable and distributed power systems and research and development; former manager, Pacific Gas & Electric
Founder, Heminge & Condell, an investment and advisory firm; cofounder and vice chair, Oxygen Media; film and television producer; cofounder and former president, GBN
Global scenarist; director of futures programme, Smith School of Enterprise and Environment, University of Oxford; former leader, Shell International's global scenario team; director of major public-private scenario initiatives on sustainability, AIDS in Africa, and global finance; physicist
Viability pioneer and founder of Whole Systems, a Belgium-based consultancy using integrated, human-centered, systemic approaches for enabling viable enterprise and win-win solutions; coauthor, The Millennium Bug
Managing editor/thought leadership for Oxford Economics. Former Asian bureau chief for Knight Ridder, based in Tokyo; long-time Asia-Pacific foreign correspondent; Pulitzer Prize finalist; author, Shutting Out the Sun: How Japan Lost Its Way and "China: Life Science Leader in 2020"
Founder, Z+ Partners, a foresight, brand, and design lab; futurist, Popular Science magazine; curator, Pop!Tech conference; former chief marketing officer, Seigel & Gale brand strategists; editor, Catalog of Tomorrow
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