Aarathi Krishnan is the founder of RAKSHA Intelligence Futures – the fist woman of color owned and led Advanced Risk Intelligence Firm. She is an experienced international aid expert, with almost two decades working directly in fragile, crisis contexts, as well as working with senior decision makers across governments, the UN system and international organizations on all aspects of risk intelligence, foresight, strategy, and governance. Her work has always pushed the boundaries of what is possible, and her published work is known to be standard setting – and incorporated in the pedagogy of the United Nations System Staff College (UNSSC), International Committee of the Red Cross Red Crescent (ICRC), United Nations Development Program (UNDP), Brandeis University and Cornell Tech. Aarathi is widely known, and trusted in the multilateral, humanitarian and academic space. She has been published widely, and is a sought after expert public speaker. Her TED talk has been viewed more than 1.6 million times by TED viewers and translated into five different languages beyond English. She has been featured by Fast Company, The Saturday Paper Australia, ABC Radio Australia, the Centre for Strategic and International Studies amongst many others. Aarathi has advised governments from Bhutan, Maldives, Cambodia, Botswana, and many more. She is a trusted advisor for philanthropic organizations and think tanks, including the World Economic Forum. In addition, she is currently an Affiliate with the Cambridge Centre of Existential Risk at the University of Cambridge and has previously been a dual Technology and Human Rights Fellow at the Berkman Klein Centre for Internet and Society at Harvard University as well as a 2020-21 and 2021-22 Technology and Human Rights Fellow at the Harvard Carr Centre for Technology and Human Rights.

Alisha Bhagat is a futurist and strategist whose work focuses on the creative use of futures tools such as strategic foresight and scenario planning to impact long term positive change, particularly around issues pertaining to social and environmental justice. She is based at Forum for the Future, a global non-profit where she works with companies and other organizations on thinking long term and sustainably. Alisha’s work in futures covers a number of sectors including food, mobility, and consumer goods. In her free time, Alisha convenes the Diaspora Futures Collective, a group of PoC working on decolonizing, reframing, and taking action for the future. Alisha received a BS in Anthropology and History from Carnegie Mellon University, a MS in Foreign Service from Georgetown University, and was a Fulbright Scholar in 2005.

Creative Strategist, Trends and Futures Specialist.

Program Establishment Manager of Policy Hub at the Victoria University of Wellington, NZ.

Arthur Muliro is Deputy Managing Director at the International Secretariat of the Society for International Development (SID) in Rome. Amongst other responsibilities, Mr. Muliro leads SID’s Futures programme that works closely with diverse development stakeholders to develop future-oriented public interest scenarios that are focused on the challenges of institutional transition and transformation. He has successfully overseen large-scale public interest scenario projects in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania and regionally in East Africa as well as supported similar initiatives in the Middle East and Latin America. Prior to joining SID, Mr. Muliro worked for the Centre for Innovative Leadership, a Johannesburg-based consulting firm specializing in organizational learning and scenario thinking. He also worked for several years in student leadership at various levels regionally and internationally. A graduate of the United States International University – Africa, Mr. Muliro holds a degree in Management Information Systems.

Director of The Hassan II International Environmental Training Center and Deputy Chair of the IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law.

Futurist and Global Lead for Strategic Foresight at the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC). Ben helps teams around the world explore possible futures so we can prepare for potential crises, uncover new opportunities for action, and make better decisions today. Ben has spent 20 years in the humanitarian sector and the media, helping organisations adapt to a changing world.

Manager at Ford Motor. Director of Development at Ernst & Young. Freelance consultant: UK; USA; Europe; Middle East; Africa; Australia. Private, Public and Voluntary sectors. Late wife folklorist Jennifer Westwood. Lives in tiny village in Norfolk. Consultant Editor Manager’s Handbook: 500,000 copies, 15 languages. Broke the MBA cartel (London; Manchester and Cranfield).

Dr. Brooke Taylor is a George Washington University Nuclear Security Working Group Fellow. She works on Capitol Hill for a member of the United States Congress and leads appropriation portfolios for defense, energy and water, and military construction and Veteran’s Affairs. Dr. Mitchell also serves as manager for the Congressional Nuclear Working Group. She consults for Southeast Innovation Institute where research efforts included curriculum development on Joint All-Domain Operations and Joint All-Domain Command and Control for the Air Force Institute of Technology. In addition, Dr. Mitchell is the Director of Strategic Studies for the Small Business Consulting Corporation and principal investigator for Air Force Global Strike Command’s (AFGSC) National Nuclear Strategy and Global Security Workshop for Practitioners. Prior to this, Dr. Mitchell managed AFGSC’s near-peer competition program where she developed and facilitated a scenario planning table-top exercise. She designed a novel top-secret Nuclear Command, Control, and Communications environmental scan table-top exercise utilized in executive education for senior military leaders and is presently in the final stages in creating a strategic foresight table-top methodology for nuclear planners, the results of which will be available Winter 2021. Dr. Mitchell has published additional research on these topics in Wild Blue Yonder, Real Clear Defense, War on the Rocks, Strategy Bridge, and the Guide to Nuclear Deterrence in the Age of Great-Power Competition with an article forthcoming in the United States Air Force Academy Space and Defense Journal.

Dale is the former Head of Strategic Foresight for the Western Cape Government in South Africa where he also served as a policy and strategy analyst. He currently resides in New York while he completes two books, one on behavioural insights and the other on inequality.

Daniel Dobos is the Research Director of Swisscom. He is responsible for research projects and academic relations. He has a passion for advanced data science, machine learning and artificial intelligence in R&D, innovation, quantum technologies, sustainability, and security contexts. Daniel is inspired by working on challenges in interdisciplinary teams, collaborations, and hackathons. He holds a PhD in particle physics and was researcher at CERN on big data and advanced data analytics. Previously he worked on strategic technology foresight projects with the United Nations and analyzed global aviation data in a startup he co-founded.

Darcy Winslow is the Founding President (2010-2020) and co-founder of the Academy for Systems Change, an organization focused on advancing the field of awareness-based systemic change in order to achieve economic, social, and ecological wellbeing. Darcy also founded the recently launched Magnolia Moonshot 2030 (MM2030), a new narrative for women!s leadership, creating the conditions to activate our collective power to address the greatest chal- lenges we face today. By convening networks of women leaders urgently addressing the climate crisis, the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, deep equity, conscious leadership and the divine femi- nine, MM2030 amplifies our collective ability for positive impact.

Prof Dave Snowden divides his time between two roles: founder Chief Scientific Officer of Cognitive Edge and the founder and Director of the Centre for Applied Complexity at the University of Wales. His work is international in nature and covers government and industry looking at complex issues relating to strategy, organisational decision making and decision making.

Edward is a strategic communications expert specializing in designing, managing and implementing complex public engagement and information dissemination campaigns. With a multidisciplinary academic background combining Broadcast Journalism and War Studies, Edward works with Government agencies, regional bodies, private firms and non-governmental organizations to tell stories and critical decisions on development, peace and security. Building on his management and practice experience with BBC Media Action, BBC World Service and with Oxfam International, Edward launched Camerafrica Consultants Ltd in 2007- a knowledge production agency that works with clients to transform and scale up their impact, revenues and competitive edge in the face of disruptive technologies, mega trends and shifting public expectations. Edward’s work in Governance continues to shape current discourses in design of violence free electoral processes based on his book Eden in Turmoil that provides a critical examination of the 2008 Post Election Violence in Kenya. Using a blend of case studies, storytelling, design and systems thinking approaches, Edward brings a transformative, participatory approach when part of strategy and policy discussions, during training forums, media discussions and when curating stories of resilience and recovery for organisations and communities. Edward has been engaged as a consultant and adviser to UN Strategy on Disaster Risk Reduction working on capacity building programs for journalists. He has trained over 40 journalists in 14 countries and pioneered the establishment of the Society of African Reporters on DRR (www.diraj.org) effectively becoming its first Chairperson.

Senior Project Manager, Dubai Future Foundation and Curator of the Dubai Future Forum.

Geci has facilitated two African SOIF projects in the digital space – the African Digital Futures Project (2021) and a foresight exercise, the IDRC, in the AI For Development programme (2022). She is a scholar-practitioner based in Johannesburg working in the intersection between people, place and technological change, and has worked in futures and foresight for about 20 years. Her work mainly focuses on public-interest projects in Africa and the global south and is more internationally linked to the Millennium Project and UNESCO’s Global Futures Literacy Network. She is also the Africa Regional Editor for the foresight journal. Geci is an Associate Professor at the Wits School of Governance, coordinating the establishment of the new Tayarisha African Centre of Excellence in Digital Governance and hosting the African Civic Tech Innovation Network. She is also a global faculty member with Singularity University on the future of cities and governance. She is widely recognised and published in development planning, policy, foresight, and innovation and is involved in leadership and editorial roles in innovation and futures. She currently serves as a founding director of the Southern African Node of the Millennium Project and its ForesightForDevelopment.org project and as Vice President of AfricaLICS (the community of innovation scholars in Africa).

Team Leader, Accelerator Labs Network at United Nations Development Programme.

Guilherme is a public policy adviser for the Portuguese Center of Government (PlanAPP). An economist by trade and an environmentalist by heart, he has served as adviser to the Portuguese Secretary of State for the Budget and an environmental consultant on the topics of waste management and circular economy. Besides his work on the Portuguese strategic planning documents, Guilherme’s works involves studying and proposing changes to the strategic planning system in Portugal, delving into topics such as the relation between strategic planning and the budgetary process or the integration of foresight within the planning activities of the government.

Research Professor and Director of the Master’s Degree in Strategic Foresight at the School of Government and Public Transformation of Tecnológico de Monterrey.

Strategy Manager with 5 years experience working in strategy development at Wellcome. Experienced in the development and implementation of strategic projects and initiatives; innovative strategy development and project management.

Heba is an Independent Advisor on international development and peacebuilding. A former United Nations Resident Coordinator and UNDP Director, she has decades of leadership experience in both the multilateral system and civil society, spanning many countries and numerous complex crisis and conflict contexts. Heba is currently a member of the Board of Directors of ODI-Europe, and a member of the Supervisory Council of the Dr. Mukwege Foundation.

Hitomi Rankine is a technical cooperation specialist with over 15 years of experience in Asia and the Pacific and the Caribbean. She has facilitated multi-stakeholder foresight, opened futures studies opportunities and explored sustainability challenges through a transdisciplinary lens. As an Environmental Affairs Officer at the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP), she has been responsible for policy advocacy and research and stakeholder engagement for sustainable development and green growth. She works closely with civil society in the follow up and review of progress on the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development, helping to ensure that stakeholders have a seat at the table.

Huong Nguyen is a strategist who works at the intersection of foresight, strategy and human resources. Her experience extends to the New Zealand public service (including the New Zealand Treasury and the Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment), and the tertiary education, health and NGO sectors. Huong is passionate about helping organisations and communities prepare for multiple futures. She has led the development of organisational strategies and workforce strategies which take into account future uncertainties. She also provided advice on and contributed to many work programmes on matters such as long-term governance, wellbeing and climate change (both in New Zealand and internationally). Huong holds a PhD in Human Resource Management from Victoria University of Wellington, alongside undergraduate degrees in International Law and Management.

Jane Davidson is the author of #futuregen: Lessons from a Small Country and passionate about living lightly. She is Pro Vice-Chancellor Emeritus at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David. From 2000 – 2011, she was Cabinet Minister for Education, then Environment and Sustainability in Wales where she proposed legislation to make sustainability the central organising principle of government: the Wellbeing of Future Generations (Wales) Act came into law in 2015. She is a RSA Fellow and guest faculty on the Executive Education for Sustainability Leadership programme at Harvard University & T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Jane is a psychotherapist with 15 years experience of working with individuals and leading community programmes for people seeking safety in the UK. She’s currently interested in the interplay between the neuropsychology of fear and foresight work; with a particular focus on the role futures work plays in providing young people a safe space to engage with the climate challenge, helping them move from anxiety into action.

Jim Maltby is a Principal Scientist at the Defence Science Technology Laboratory (Dstl, part of MOD). He joined Dstl over 10 years ago, after serving in the British Army and working in a number of Government departments working on Resilience and Security.ssHe is a Biologist and Social Scientist; now providing research on long-term planning, science and technology, and strategy and policy advice to senior decision makers in National Security. His interests research focuses identify future changes in society, how this is shaped by adoption of technology, and how we can improve performance in our reasoning and decision making within complex problems and situations of high uncertainty.ssJim works closely with our partners across government and academia within the UK and abroad, and also collaborates with a number of other industrial sectors in the UK: primarily the Creative Industries (design and innovation), Insurance, Energy and Humanitarian sectors.ssHe is currently a RSA Fellow, and a Fellow of the Institute of Civil Protection and Emergency Management (ICPEM). A member of the Society for Decision Making under Deep Uncertainty and the Analysis Under Uncertainty for Decision-Makers Network (AU4DM). He sits on the Advisory Board to the Humanitarian Innovation Fund and has been a technical advisor to the Virgin Earth Challenge.

I am a Strategist and Futurist with over 15 years of international Marketing, Innovation, and Strategy experience in blue-chip companies, such as The Walt Disney Company, AB InBev, Societe Generale as well as start-ups. A graduate of Saïd Business School, University of Oxford Strategy and Innovation programme, I focused my research on how Strategic Foresight can help incumbent organizations navigate our Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous world, avoid disruption, and become disruptors themselves to ensure their long-term market positioning and future success. I founded Futures Forward in April 2019 and I help organizations up-skill and build resilient innovation and business strategies for the future. ​ I am a member of The Global Foresight Advisory Board of The Futures School, the Association of Professional Futurists, and the Oxford Union.

Ph.D. in transdisciplinary cultural studies, Master in social anthropology. Head of Futures Studies area, Chair of Design of Tomorrow program, co-editor-in-chief of the Creative Economy journal at centro.edu.mx. Regional editor for LATAM of the Journal of Futures Studies (Tamkan University). Researcher and planner for the firms Yuzu Kyodai (Japan) and Punk (Vancouver/Mallorca).

Director, Thought Leadership, Business Fights Poverty. Katie has over 15 years’ experience in business and social impact, including with multinationals in the finance and telecommunications sectors. Katie is an award-winning and published thought leader spanning disciplines of business innovation, social enterprise, stakeholder engagement and sustainability. As Director of Thought Leadership at Business Fights Poverty, Katie leads efforts to distil and distribute practical insights to enable businesses to scale their social impact and connect with key stakeholders. Katie led analysis of the Cargill-CARE partnership, drawing out learnings about how to move from transactional to transformational partnerships. She has led the three year Futuremakers programme with Standard Chartered Bank – running activities ranging from competitions to youth led research with Cambridge University and multi-day Forums. Katie had led research for the DFID project on business integrity, focusing on the development of anti-bribery case studies for SMEs. Katie regularly leads deep stakeholder engagement work – tackling emerging issues and deepening long lasted trusted relationships for stakeholders. She oversees Business Fights Poverty’s Content Partner engagement activities – with over 130 NGO partners and many more global experts to help crowdsource knowledge from the 35,000+ community of professionals and to a drive conversations around key social impact issues. Previously, Katie worked for Barclays, where she led external stakeholder engagement and strategic relationships for the bank on social and environmental agendas. She also spearheaded Barclays’ Shared Growth research. Prior to that Katie worked for Telefonica UK, where she developed an award winning sustainability internal engagement strategy. Katie holds an MA Environment Politics & Globalisation, King’s College London.

Laura M. Muir is the Chief Human Resources Officer at Polaris Transportation Group and was the recipient of the 2022 Women in the Workplace award. She has also been a founding leader of Canadian Human Resources for various global organizations. Her vision has been to encourage people, especially women, into career paths where they can be passionate and find personal gratification. Laura continues to devote her time to public speaking at various secondary and post-secondary institutions and other forums to help provide guidance and inspiration. Her motto of, “Be the unicorn – develop powers that no one else has”, has inspired others to create a unique and diverse background. Laura also devotes her time developing partnerships with nonprofit organizations and humanitarian agencies across North America and is deeply committed to helping women who have endured difficult situations. She serves on two boards specializing on building opportunities for women and provide support. She has been featured in a number of Canadian periodicals and also regularly contributes to a Canadian newspaper focusing on Human Resource guidance. Laura is in the process of working on a book addressing generational variances. She is also a mother of three and devoted wife; Laura and her husband have been running a hobby farm in Northern Ontario focusing on sustainability in her spare time. Laura possesses over 20 years of experience in International Human Resources practices and is a recent graduate of Oxford University’s Executive Leadership Programme and the Oxford Executive Strategy Programme. She is fluent in English and conversational French and Spanish and basic knowledge of Italian, Korean and Japanese.

Laurie Smith – Senior Foresight Lead, Discovery Hub. Laurie leads on strategic foresight for Nesta. He oversees much of the organisation’s research into emerging trends, novel technologies and promising interventions. The Discovery Hub, of which he is part, embeds strategic foresight at the heart of Nesta and helps test high potential ideas before applying them in our programmes.

Linda Peterhans is a Programme Officer at the Kofi Annan Foundation, working on youth-related projects under the Youth Leadership programme. She manages the Kofi Annan Changemakers, an intergenerational initiative which aims to make the voices of young people count by giving them a chance to dialogue with and seek counsel from experienced leaders on diverse issues whilst allowing leaders to better understand the preoccupation of young people. Prior to that, Linda worked in the Arts and Culture team of the World Economic Forum, leading a leadership programme with artists and managing the Cultural Leaders network. She also worked in the humanitarian sector in the Middle East where she coordinated cultural projects. Linda holds a Master’s Degree in Anthropology and Sociology from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies and The American University in Cairo.

Consultant, Climate Business Department, International Finance Corporation (IFC), World Bank Group. Mai Nguyen has over 10 years of experience in green buildings, sustainable real estate, and urban development in the Asia-Pacific and North America regions. She holds a CFA ESG Investing Certificate and LEED AP (BD+C, ID+C). Currently, she works as a climate resilience consultant in the Climate Business Department at the International Finance Corporation (IFC), World Bank Group. Prior to joining IFC, she was involved in the City of Boston’s first Zero Net Carbon Building Zoning Initiative and the City’s Climate Resiliency Requirements. Additionally, she actively participates in multiple entrepreneurship accelerators as a mentor and judge. Ms. Nguyen is a Humphrey scholar, an ADB-JSP alumna, and an Op-Ed columnist who writes about sustainable urban development and ESG in real estate. She also serves as the Country Representative to Vietnam for the American Planning Association – International Division. Ms. Nguyen earned a master’s degree from Saitama University in Japan and conducted a research fellowship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Marcela is the Senior Specialist for Strategic Futures with Natural England, where she is furthering futures, systems thinking, and innovation, to help strengthen strategic decision making across the organisation. Marcela has also been working to champion futures thinking in the security sector through her support on a number of initiatives, including involvement in the Paris Peace Forum 2021. She was awarded the NGFP Security and Technology Special Award 2021 for her project proposal focused on leveraging youth voices to shape the future global security agenda. In her previous role with INTERPOL, she helped to establish the first Global Horizon Scan for law enforcement, a participatory futures game, and launch the first INTERPOL Young Global Police Leaders Programme. Previous experiences also include working at NATO, as well as supporting women’s empowerment in the MENA region.

Mark is passionate about transformational change in individuals, organisations, and communities. He provides consulting and coaching support for people wrestling with leadership challenges, complexity, and conflict, focused on developing individual and collective capacities for: • embracing complexity, sense-making, systems thinking, and power dynamics • situational leadership: making mindful choices to exercise different leadership behaviours when engaging in a crisis, a technical problem, or a complex “wicked” problem • understanding conflict, individual emotions and organisational defensive routines • understanding different types of conversation • developing capacities for transformational dialogue • building trust; making “progress at the speed of trust” • developing effective practices for individual and organisational reflection and learning Mark facilitates on the UK Gov’s Major Projects Leadership Academy at Oxford’s Saïd Business School, and with the Centre for Democracy & Peacebuilding. With 30 years’ experience at the intersection of leadership, complexity, and conflict, Mark has worked with different governments, NGOs, the Olympic movement, in corporate law and the private sector; in the UK, India, Iraq, Democratic Republic of Congo, Papua New Guinea, and Jordan, where he served for 12 years as CEO of Generations For Peace, a global peacebuilding organisation with 22,702 peacebuilders in 52 countries. Mark graduated magna cum laude from University of Oxford’s Saïd Business School and HEC Paris (MSc); Université Lyon 1 (MA); University of Edinburgh (LLB-Hons; DipLP); and Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. He has additional certificates in Transformative Dialogue from the Nansen Centre for Peace and Dialogue in Norway; in Community Dispute Resolution from Colorado State University; in Non-Violent Communication from the Centre for Nonviolent Communication, in Conflict Resolution, Transformation and Peacebuilding from the International Centre for Parliamentary Studies, and in Artificial Intelligence from University of Oxford. Mark began his career as a corporate lawyer in the UK and India. He served as a British Army Officer for 10 years, and with the British Foreign & Commonwealth Office. He was awarded MBE by HM Queen Elizabeth II for his work in Iraq 2003-2005; CEO of the Year 2022 by CEO Monthly, and the 2022 Peacemaker Award by Brigham Young University Centre for Peace and Conflict Resolution. He is a member of The Change Leaders and the Law Society of Scotland, a Writer to His Majesty’s Signet, and founder of Transformational.

Mark is a leadership coach working with executives from across the world, enabling them to better face the challenges ahead. He is a member of Oxford University’s Saїd Business School Coaching Community where he coaches leaders from across the world on a wide range of programmes including High-Performance Leadership, Oxford Advanced Management and Leadership Programme, Driving Disruptive Growth, Executive MBA and full-time MBA as well as a number of custom programmes. He is also an associate at global leadership development firm Spencer Stuart and has his own private practice. Increasingly, Mark is drawn to and seeks to incorporate Futures thinking into his work as leaders prepare their organisations for a radically different future.

Mathew Burrows, PhD serves as director of the Atlantic Council’s Foresight, Strategy, and Risks Initiative (FSR) and is one of the leading experts on strategic foresight and global trend analysis. In 2013 he retired from a 28-year long career in the State Department and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the last 10 years of which he spent at the National Intelligence Council (NIC), the premier analytic unit in the US Intelligence Community. In 2007, Burrows was appointed Counselor, the number three position in the NIC, and was the principal drafter for the NIC publication Global Trends 2030: Alternative Worlds, which received widespread recognition and praise in the international media. In 2005, he was asked to set up and direct the NIC’s new Long Range Analysis Unit, which is now known as the Strategic Futures Group. Other positions included assignments as deputy national security advisor to Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill (2001-02), special assistant to the UN Ambassador Richard Holbrooke (1999-2001), and first holder of the intelligence community fellowship at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York (1998-1999). Burrows received a BA in American and European history from Wesleyan University and a PhD in European history from the University of Cambridge.

Ms. Nancy Donovan is Co-founder of the international Public Sector Foresight Network (https://www.publicsectorforesight.org) which connects government foresight practitioners from countries around the world by activities such as meetings to disseminate information on examples of foresight efforts, lessons and challenges in conducting foresight, and how to best communicate and sustain foresight activities. Ms. Donovan is the former Director of Domestic Relations for Strategic Planning and External Liaison at the U.S. Government Accountability Office, a U.S. Congressional agency. In this position, Ms. Donovan was responsible for relationships with the U.S. federal, state and local accountability communities and incorporated foresight considerations as part of her work in directing dialogues for this network. In her prior work in GAO’s Applied Research and Methods team, she specialized in foresight issues with attention to methods in the context of an accountability organization. Ms. Donovan has addressed U.S. and international audiences on government foresight as well as writing about the role of evidence for public management. She has directed numerous projects resulting in reports and testimonies to the U.S. Congress on issues in such areas as: science policy, public health, long-term care, highway safety and new technologies, and privacy and confidentiality of medical and other records. Ms. Donovan has a Master of Public Administration from Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs.

Nicolas Francisco Arroyo is Partner & Head of Strategic Foresight at Manyone, a strategy-design consultancy shaping everything that’s next.

Nicole has been championing futures work in the Philippines including through the Philippine Futures Thinking Society (PhilFutures), the Center for Engaged Foresight (CEF), and the Association of Professional Futurists (APF). Her project aims to strengthen indigenous and community foresight by developing decolonized Filipino futures through Hiraya Foresight, working with rural communities to bring their voices into the conversation.

Dr. Nigel D’Silva is a Senior Advisor, Professor, Senior Fellow DRaS and GLO Global Fellow based in Mumbai. He is currently an Adjunct and Empanelled Faculty in Economics and Finance at the prestigious Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. He has more than twenty five years of rich experience in strategic advisory, risk, economic advisory, analytics, academics and industry. He is on the Editorial Advisory Boards of International Journal of Economics and Finance (Canada), Global Journal of Management and Business (USA), Indian Journal of Economics, Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Insight (Emerald) and an Advisory Council Member at Harvard Business Review (HBR). Dr. Nigel D’Silva has published research papers in leading international journals such as Emerald, Sage and Global Journals. He is on the review panel of the Journal Information Technology & People (Emerald Insight) and the International Journal of Indian Culture and Business Management (InderScience).

Nikos Kastrinos is an independent scholar, former EU official and R&I policy advisor with the governments of Greece, Cyprus and Ireland. He was, until recently, with DG R&I of the European Commission for 27 years, the last 12 of which he was responsible for foresight. Before joining the European Commission he was a research fellow at PREST, Manchester University. He has been active in the research and policy communities for 35 years as a leader, teacher, practitioner and mentor in foresight, innovation policy and evaluation.

Olga Remneva (based in Tel Aviv, Israel) – PhD in cultural studies, art&science and technology-based expert, curator, art historian, educator, futurist. Founder and curator of VZOR Lab, associate professor at ITMO University. TEDx speaker, Next Generation Foresight Practitioners fellow. 10 exhibitions curated, 10+ educational programs designed, 350+ hours of lectures and public talks given in dozens of cities and at international online events. Working with communities of arts and culture professionals, science and tech guys, futurists; teenagers and students; business companies and corporate trainings; general public and wider audience.

Olga Shaeva is a trends and futures researcher. She is co-founder of Algorithm Trend Intelligence (Lille, France) – a startup developing digital trend intelligence toolbox that helps monitor emerging trends and weak signals of change, create future visions and act on future opportunities ahead of the curve. Olga has been working on developing proprietary methodology of trendwatching and futures research and applying it to solve challenges for companies in the CIS, EEMEA and global market since 2016. Before that she had worked in media research and had done academic research in the field of social structure, change and transformation. Olga holds a PhD in sociology. Olga is part of Trend Locals trendspotters network, Radar DAO, Next Generation Foresight Practitioners (NGFP) Fellow and winner of the 2022 education award.

Olivia is Head of Strategy at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, a genomics research institute in Cambridge, UK. She’s also part of the strategy team at the Wellcome Trust, a global charitable foundation that works to ensure everyone can benefit from science’s potential to improve health and save lives. She’s particularly interested in futures and foresight for strategy development and as an amateur futures practitioner uses futures and foresight techniques in her work to develop strategy, understand emerging risks and currently to convene stakeholders around future opportunities for genomics research to have impact.

Osmar Coelho Filho is an engineer that holds a certificate degree in Sustainable Food Systems and Agroecology from the University of California, and a master’s degree in Sustainable Development from the Center for Sustainable Development, CDS, University of Brasília, UnB. He is a Ph.D. candidate in the Environmental Technology and Water Resources graduate program, Ptarh, the University of Brasilia working with Water Security and Water Crises around the world. Osmar Coelho Filho was the 2010’s recipient of the HSBC Bank National Award on Sustainable Development with a project on the Future of Agroecology and Organic Food in Rio de Janeiro city. He was a Latin American fellow of Youth for Environmental Sanity working with Sustainability and Foresight education. He also was a fellow of Global Exchange as a local coordinator of the Reality tour program that helped to connect citizens around the world on behalf of social and environmental justice. He was an assistant researcher at Institut for Applied Social and Economic Research, IPEA working, and associate researcher at CDS-UnB where he develop several projects and analyses: “The National Plan of Green Procurement”, “The Future of Bicycling in Brazil”, “How to improve the Circular Economy in Brazil?”, “Sustainability Education for Engineers”. He created a method of scenario planning based on perception anthropology called Strategy Matrix. Fields of Expertise: Environmental Planning and Governance, Interdisciplinary Methods, Scenario Planning, Circular Economy, Design Thinking, Sustainability, and Foresight Education.

Paul Hunter is a Deputy Programme Director and Lecturer in Human Resource Management and Organisational Behaviour at the Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow. He is also a Senior Fellow, having been recognised for his contributions to Higher Education. Paul’s research specialisms focus on organisational justice during performance assessments, alternative work systems’ impact on productivity and performance, equality and diversity, and the impact of dark side behaviours in the workplace. Previously, he worked as a management consultant for a number of years in the areas of Employee Relations, Organisational Development and Socio-Technical Systems. In this capacity he has worked with a number of organisations.

Prof. Prabhat Ranjan is currently Vice-Chancellor of D Y Patil International University, Pune. He is a Nuclear Fusion Scientist, a Futurist, an Educator, an Innovator and a Science Communicator. From 2013-18, he was heading India’s Technology Think Tank, TIFAC(Technology Information, Forecasting and Assessment Council) in Delhi. During his tenure, TIFAC developed Technology Vision 2035, which was released by Hon’ble PM in Jan 2016. For developing this document, he trained scientists in TIFAC in foresight methodologies, which led to improvement in quality of document as well as its impact. He was also part of Govt Foresight Organizations Network(GFN) and associated with World Future Society and School of International Futures(SOIF), UK. Prof. Ranjan has worked on Nuclear Fusion in India and USA and made major contributions to this field for nearly two decades. He served as Professor at DA-IICT, Gandhinagar for 11 years. His remarkable contributions include India’s Moon Mission and Wildlife. He is particularly known for his innovations in the field of assistive technology that has helped to put smiles on the faces of persons with severe disability. He obtained his Ph.D from University of California, Berkeley and did college education from IIT Kharagpur and University of Delhi after schooling from Netarhat School.

Probal is the Co-founder and CEO of the trans-disciplinary design-led collective, D.epicentre. He works on the interfaces of business, entrepreneurship, learning, design, innovation and storytelling. With leadership experience strengthening his ability to manage cross-cultural & cross-functional virtual teams in complex matrix organisations, he has a passion for driving content & culture driven organisations beyond corporate-based setups. He has been able to design effective, improved products/services and solutions, serve customers and build successful teams/coalitions through processes of design-led innovation, Lean Six Sigma, learning theories and business storytelling. Previously, Probal was a program manager, business transformation, sales, customer experience and client engagement lead with over 20 years of experience. In different leadership roles he has managed diverse global programs in 7 countries, working with Fortune50 MNCs such as Amazon.com and FTSE10 banks such as the Lloyds Banking Group. His experience ranges from start-ups, process consulting & analytics, offshoring/shared services, aviation, social and cultural enterprises to academia. His multifaceted experience includes: Executive coaching, mentoring and enabling ideation, collaboration, adaptation and transformation, Facilitating co-creation amongst diverse stakeholders and using resulting synergies to design solutions, Communicating through strategic narratives, Designing organisational monitoring and evaluation systems, Delivering high level operational initiatives including problem framing, problem solving and deal structuring, Building, engaging and energising large teams, Winning new business, setting up global programs and delivery sites, global service delivery & excellence, strategic project and change management, ownership & delivery of organizational P&L goals. Probal is an engineer, an alumnus of IIM Calcutta and BITS Pilani, as also an ASQ Certified Six Sigma Black Belt.

Pupul is director of foresight and design at Horizon 2045, where she leads a diverse portfolio of futures and foresight projects exploring the future of human & planetary security. A multidisciplinary designer, futurist, and winner of the Joseph Jaworski Next Generation Foresight Practitioners Award, she previously served as creative lead in the Next Generation Foresight Practice at School of International Futures (SOIF). A recognized thought leader in culturally inclusive practices in design and futures, she is founder of the Decolonizing Futures Initiative, a global project to engage marginalized communities in imagining their preferred futures, and the youngest founding member of Action Foresight’s “Global Swarm,” an internationally distributed team of futurists, researchers, and innovators.

Puruesh Chaudhary is a futures researcher and strategic narrative professional. Featured amongst the World’s top female futurists. She is a Distinguished Fellow 2015 at the Institute of Strategic Studies Islamabad and a Senior Fellow at the Institute of National Security Studies of Sri Lanka. Chaudhary is on the Editorial Board for the Journal of Future Robot Life. She is a Member Network of Global Future Councils of the World Economic Forum on the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Chaudhary is an ASPEN Alumni, a member and an advisor to the World Futures Society and is on the Planning Committee of the Millennium-Project (Global Futures Studies and Research), she is the Founding Member of the Plurality University Network. She is the Founder and President of AGAHI, a non-governmental organization, which works extensively on creating shared spaces for interactive learning, collaborative thinking and knowledge sharing. Chaudhary has a professional master’s degree in International Negotiation and Policymaking from Institut De Hautes Études Internationales Et Du Développement, Geneva. Chaudhary is a Harvard University, Singularity University Alumni; and of the National Defence University in Pakistan.

Professor of Heritage Evidence, Foresight and Policy at UCL’s Institute for Sustainable Heritage

Head, Futures Literacy, UNESCO, Paris Riel Miller started his career at the OECD in Paris in 1982 in the Economics Department. Completed his PhD in Economics at the New School for Social Research in 1987. From 1985 to 1993 he worked for the Ontario Government, in the legislature and as a senior manager in the Ontario public service (Ministries of Finance; Universities; and Industry). In 1995 he returned to the OECD to work in the International Futures Programme and with the Centre for Educational Research and Innovation. In 2005 he founded an independent consultancy – xperidox (which means knowledge through experience) to advise public and private sector clients from around the world on how to use the future more effectively. In 2012 he joined UNESCO as Head of Foresight.

Sam is co-founder and Managing Director of ForgeFront, a futures and foresight firm. An ex-civil servant, he previously worked for the EU Institutions, the UK Cabinet Office and the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. His expertise lies is advising ministers, C-suite executives and senior officials on linking futures to strategy and policy change. ForgeFront has worked for the British Government, international governments, and a range of private and third sector clients. They partner on much of their work with the US-based Good Judgment Inc. Sam has a passion for lifelong learning, monotasking and mental health in the workplace. He sits on the board of a gaming company and is a certified data analyst. When not at his desk he is nerding out about the latest tech, in the gym, or trying his optimistic best to make accurate superforecasts.

Chair, The Association of Professional Futurists Futures Thinking Supervising Fellow and Faculty, Development Academy of the Philippines. Lecturer, University of the Philippines National College of Public Administration and Governance. Co-founder and Vice President, Philippine Futures Thinking Society. Chair, Millennium Project Philippines Node Regional Editor, Journal of Futures Studies. Certified Business Continuity Professional and Associate Member, Business Continuity Institute. Consultant, Business Continuity Management Advisory Services, John Clements Inc.

Sohail Inayatullah, UNESCO Chair in Futures Studies, Sejahtera Centre for Sustainability and Humanity, IIUM. Professor, Tamkang University. Futurist-in-residence, Government of Abu Dhabi, Culture and Tourism.

Steven Kenney is the founder and principal of Foresight Vector LLC, a firm providing specialized advisory services in strategic foresight, strategy development and implementation, organizational culture, organizational change, and leader development. Recognized for his expertise in strategic foresight, for more than twenty-five years he has advised government, corporate, and non-profit sector organizations on how to create their future. He has led advisory engagements for the top executives in General Dynamics, Boeing, CSX Transportation, Bayer, Heinz, and CIT Group among other leading private sector corporations. He has also led engagements for top-level officials in dozens of U.S. and other nations’ defense, intelligence, and civil government agencies, including for the head of the U.S. Navy’s healthcare enterprise, the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, and the heads of EPA, NASA, and FDA among other civil government agencies. Steven’s work helps client organizations and their leadership teams define their direction and adapt their plans, people, processes, and more to be able to achieve their greatest success. In addition to his work in and leadership of Foresight Vector, he is also the director of the Strategic Foresight Initiative program at The Middle East Institute, a leading Washington DC-based think tank; and a Senior Advisor at MatchPace, a firm helping organizations reimagine their work processes and organizational cultures. Prior to founding Foresight Vector, Steven was an Executive in Residence at N2Growth, a global leadership advisory services firm. Prior to that, he was a Vice President at Monitor 360 (formed from Global Business Network, the scenario-based strategy advisory practice of Art of the Long View author Peter Schwartz), and a Partner for more than a decade in Toffler Associates, the executive advisory firm founded by world-renowned futurist Alvin Toffler. Steven holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California and a Master’s degree from Columbia University, and attended Executive Education programs at Harvard Business School and at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.

Dr. Steven Lichty is based in Nairobi, Kenya and is a co-founder and managing partner of REAL Consulting Group, a boutique firm focused on research, evaluation, applied learning, and strategic foresight. He has nearly 25 years’ experience in various sectors across Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America, including those in post-conflict, transitional, and fragile environments. Additionally, he has worked with academic and research capacity building with three universities in Kenya and has worked with a range of clients including the World Bank, Save the Children, Freedom House, Tearfund, Mars, Inc., USAID, etc. Steven’s PhD is in African Studies but incorporated a multi-disciplinary approach in his studies and included insight from religion, development studies, anthropology, and political theory. His current research focuses on the nexus of community-led trauma healing, futures consciousness, and the Triple Dividend.

Sudebi Thakurata is a narrative designer, creative facilitator, educator, writer and futurist. She designs experiences, engagement and environment that allow people to think, have dialogue, make their thinking and interaction visible and thus enable them to design their own solutions and narratives using different modes and media. A facilitator at Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Sudebi has co-founded the transdisciplinary design collective, D.epicentre. She is also a Creative Facilitator of SEAΔ, a trans-national cross-cultural leadership programme curated by Mekong Cultural Hub and British Council. A global UNLEASH talent, Sudebi started a unique pedagogy, art and design led trans-local initiative “The Archival City- a Site of Learning’. She is one of the six international experts co-creating a ‘Fair Collaboration Toolkit’ for EUNIC where she is also currently leading the design team.

Sultan is an expert in economic, social and political affairs of the MENA region, working in various high-profile positions in Jordan and the Sultanate of Oman. He previously served as a Policy Analyst at the National Policy Council and at the Economic and Social affairs Directorate at the Office of His Majesty King Abdullah II at the Royal Hashemite Court of Jordan. In 2017, Sultan was appointed as a Senior Economist for Oman Vision 2040 at Levenbert Consultancy at the Supreme Planning Council in Oman. Furthermore, Sultan is currently an independent consultant for the World Bank Group, supporting their work on labor strategies, social protection, and skills development in the MENA region, and for the UNDP, supporting their work in Iraq and Kurdistan Region.

Focal Area Lead, Strategic Foresight, UN Global Pulse

Tom started his career as an attorney, specialised in commercial and international law. After a short period of time, he decided to make a drastic change and he joined the Belgian armed Forces to become an Intelligence Officer. Throughout his military career, he held various functions as a Commander, Staff officer, Collector and Analyst, both domestically and internationally, deployed in several operations. In his last 6 years in the military, he was a part of the personal staff of the Head of The General Intelligence and Security Service where he was the in charge of the Strategic Foresight Project. Recently, he pursued new endeavors and joined the Corporate Security team of Solvay as the Security and Threat Intelligence Manager. He is a Foresight Practitioner and holds a Masters degree in Law, Tax, a PgD in Business Administration and has multiple certificates in Intelligence Coordination, Collection and Analysis.

Research Director, Institute for the Future Wayne believes deeply in the power of futures thinking to shape a better future. He is currently a Research Director with Institute for the Future where he helps organizations in the public and private sectors imagine better futures. He is especially passionate about creating more just and sustainable societies. Wayne has previously worked at Kantar, Forum for the Future, UNDP, and what is now Deloitte Monitor. He holds a Master’s in Environmental Policy from Lund University and a BA in History from UC Berkeley.

Wendy Schultz is an academically trained futurist with over forty years of global foresight practice. She has designed futures research projects for NGOs, government agencies, and businesses, and with her colleagues at SAMI Consulting recently completed four global scenarios and multiple regional scenarios on the futures of research and innovation in a post-COVID world. Wendy specializes in participatory futures workshops – most recently online for the ILO and the International Institute of Islamic Thought; other examples include face-to-face workshops offering foresight training in Kuala Lumpur and Istanbul; at A Temporary Futures Institute at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Antwerp; In Cairo for the ILO; for Africa Knows in Arusha, Tanzania; and with the Geneva Centre for Security Policy in Bangkok, New York, and Geneva. Wendy teaches futures studies in the Masters Program in Strategic Foresight at the University of Houston; is a Fellow of the Geneva Centre for Security Policy; a Senior Fellow of the Center for Post-Normal Policy and Futures Studies; a member of the Association of Professional Futurists; a Fellow of the World Futures Studies Federation; and a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts. She is Director of Infinite Futures and Futures Puzzlemaster at Jigsaw Foresight.

Zhan Li, Partner at Actus Partners and Head of Strategy & Impact Committee at the Jamaica Actus Small & Medium Enterprises Fund (JASMEF).