GBN : Our Practice

Anthropologist specializing in consumer research and trends, branding, and strategy; CEO, BardoConsulting; radio show host; former strategist with OgilvyOne, Citibank, and Nissan

Crawford Beveridge

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

Joseph Chamie

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.

June Delano

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

Gwynne Dyer

Journalist and syndicated columnist on international affairs; military analyst; documentary radio and filmmaker; author, War, Future Tense, and Climate Wars

Robert Hormats

Economist; undersecretary of state for energy, environment and agriculture; former vice chair, Goldman Sachs International; author, Reforming the International Monetary Systems

Mimi Ito

Cultural anthropologist, Keio University and University of Southern California; researcher on portable technologies and new media and learning, especially among youth

John Kao

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

Mia de Kuijper

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

Kaiser Kuo

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

Graham Leicester

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

Chris Luebkeman

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

Kishore Mahbubani

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

Mark Malloch-Brown

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

Jay Ogilvy

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.

Michael Pillsbury

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

Chris Riley

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

Orville Schell

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

Peter Schwartz

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.

Hirotaka Takeuchi

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

Nick Turner

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

Steven Weber

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

Alain Wouters

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

Michael Zielenziger

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"

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