Our People

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