GBN : Our Practice

Advisor/innovator on energy, sustainability, climate change, and solving 21st century global problems; former managing director, World Economic Forum and head scenarist, Royal Dutch Shell

Gwynne Dyer

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

Francis Fukuyama

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

Joel Garreau

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

Gerald Harris

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

Shaun Jones

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

Adam Kahane

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

Jaap Leemhuis

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

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

John Petersen

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

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

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.

Russell Schweickart

Consultant, satellite technology and space development; Apollo 9 astronaut; cofounder, Association of Space Explorers and the B612 Foundation (addressing astereoids)

Heinrich Vogel

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

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

Angela Wilkinson

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

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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