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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
Journalist and syndicated columnist on international affairs; military analyst; documentary radio and filmmaker; author, War, Future Tense, and Climate Wars
Economist and cofounder, Serengeti Advisors, Tanzania; former head of strategy and investment banking, African Banking Corporation; involved in multiple scenario-building efforts throughout Africa
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
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
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
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
Economist; undersecretary of state for energy, environment and agriculture; former vice chair, Goldman Sachs International; author, Reforming the International Monetary Systems
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
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
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
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
International energy consultant; former head of scenario planning, Royal Dutch Shell
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?
Writer, futurist, entrepreneur; president, Morning Star Imports; former legislative assistant; coauthor, Nuclear Weapons Decision Making and The Futures of Women
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
Entrepreneur; bio- and nano-tech venture, technical, and management adviser; biochemist; founder, Nanosolar, a nanotechnology-based solar energy company; new classical music composer
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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"
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