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Erran Carmel, PhD,
is a Professor at American University’s Kogod School of Business. He is a former dean and former department chair. As a futurist he has been teaching futures classes since 2010 at both undergraduate and graduate levels. In addition, he teaches or has taught courses on: technology strategy, emerging technology, blockchain, collaborative technology, digital commerce, and more. He writes on the future, including recently “The multi-dimensional space of the futures of work.” He is best known for his multi-decade research on the globalization of technology work—and is the author of three books in this area. He has been a Visiting Professor at University of Haifa (Israel), University College Dublin (Ireland), Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez (Chile), Beijing Normal University (China), and Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (Italy).
Timothy Dolan, PhD,
is principal of Policy Foresight and faculty at DMS Academy. He is an alumnus of the Manoa School of Futures Studies and contemporary of such prominent futurists as Sohail Inayathulla, Wendy Schultz, and Chris Jones. He is the author of over 35 articles and book chapters on anticipatory public policy. His current project is a book on the biotech revolution and market-driven evolution. He has designed numerous graduate-level courses on various topics relating to foresight/futures studies.
Annette L Gardner, PhD,
MPH, Principal, ALGardner Consulting. Formerly an Associate Professor at University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Gardner has 20+ years of evaluation expertise, both as a practitioner and thought leader. She has designed and directed national, state, and local evaluations focusing on insurance coverage expansions for low-income Americans, the adoption of health information technology, and expanded advocacy capacity. She is a frequent presenter on evaluation designs and findings and is an evaluation educator. A political scientist with academic interests in federalism and community empowerment, Dr. Gardner and Claire Brindis, DrPH co-authored the definitive book, Advocacy and Policy Change Evaluation: Theory and Practice (Stanford University Press).
Additionally, Dr. Gardner is an experienced futurist and is a leader in advancing foresight evaluation practice. In 2019, she co-edited a special issue of the World Futures Review on the evaluation of foresight with Peter Bishop. From 2021 to 2022, she served as the Chair of the Association of Professional Futurists Foresight Evaluation Task Force, an 18-month initiative to explore the intersection of evaluation and foresight. Currently, she is focusing on expanding foresight practitioner evaluation capacity and is developing a curated, online foresight evaluation toolkit and other products. She is also working on expanding evaluator foresight capacity and is conducting foresight methods workshops at evaluation conferences. She is also developing a themed issue of New Directions for Evaluation on foresight evaluation.
Jerome Glenn, PhD h.c.
is the CEO of The Millennium Project, a leading global participatory think tank with 70 Nodes around the world, which produces the State of the Future reports for the past 25 years. He is the lead editor of Futures Research Methodology 3.0 the largest collection of internationally peer-reviewed futures methods. He invented the Futures Wheel and concepts such as conscious-technology, transinstitutions, tele-nations, management by understanding, self-actualization economy, feminine brain drain, and definitions of environmental security and collective Intelligence.
He wrote about information warfare in the late 1980s in his book Future Mind, sent his first email in 1973, and in the mid-1980s he was instrumental in getting x.25 packet switching in 29 developing countries which was key to low-cost access to the Internet. More recently he has conducted a global assessment of the five foresight elements of UN reform in Our Common Agenda by the UN Secretary-General and exploring global governance options for the transition from artificial narrow intelligence to artificial general intelligence. He has published over 150 future-oriented articles, spoken to over 1000 organizations, written several books (Future Mind, Linking the Future, and co-author of Space Trek: The Endless Migration), and has conducted 58 futures research studies.
Christopher B. Jones, PhD,
is Executive Director, the Transnormal Institute (Santa Fe, New Mexico); Senior Fellow, Centre for Postnormal Policy and Futures Studies (CPPFS, London); Fellow, World Futures Studies Federation (WFSF); and member of the Association of Professional Futurists. He graduated (MA & PhD) from the University of Hawaii Alternative Futures program, taught political science and futures studies in the US state systems of higher education in Hawaii, Oregon, Texas, and Colorado, and worked for 15 years in the Walden University graduate school of Public Policy and Administration. Jones was one of the first interns at the Institute for Alternative Futures, taught for the MS Program in Studies of the Future at the University of Houston-Clearlake (2001-2004), served as Secretary-General of the WFSF (2001-2005), and is a Futures editorial board member.
Chris specializes in qualitative futures inquiry, brainstorming and creativity, horizon scanning and emerging issues analysis, scenario building, visioning, and strategic foresight planning. His interests include artificial intelligence, space development, cyber security, women’s futures, indigenous futures, deep/dark ecology, global weirding and accelerating warming, Collapse images of the future, non-Western futures, global consciousness, posthumanism, and postnormal times analysis. Jones’ recent futures work includes futures literacy and sustainability policy development for the Ministry of Education, Sarajevo Canton, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and postnormal times (PNT) analysis, futures literacy, and PNT simulations for CPPFS and the Prime Minister’s Office in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Thomas Lombardo, PhD,
is the Director of the Center for Future Consciousness , Editor of Future Consciousness Insights, Professor Emeritus and Retired Faculty Chair of Psychology, Philosophy, and the Future at Rio Salado College, and past Director of The Wisdom Page. He is a Fellow and Executive Board member of the World Futures Studies Federation. He is a current Editorial Board Member of the Journal of Futures Studies and World Futures.
Dr. Lombardo has published thirteen books and over seventy articles, produced dozens of educational online videos and podcasts, and given over 70 professional presentations on many futurist and philosophical topics, including wisdom and the future of education; the future of consciousness and the human mind; dystopian and utopian thought; theories of the future; and the history of science fiction.
His newest books include Future Consciousness: The Path to Purposeful Evolution, winner of the 2017 Network Book Award; The Pursuit of Virtue (2019), “A brilliant, timely, erudite exposure of the shallow, divisive individualism of modern life;” three volumes in his series Science Fiction: The Evolutionary Mythology of the Future (2018, 2021, 2021), “a ‘must-read’ in the study both of science fiction and the future;” and Essays on the Future of Psychology and Consciousness (2022), “a brilliant collection of essays.” Presently he lives with his wife Jeanne in the Phoenix, Arizona metropolitan area.
Claire Nelson, PhD,
is Chief Ideation Leader of The Futures Forum, a research and education practice specializing in bringing the power of strategic foresight, and the discipline of sustainability engineering to challenges facing organizations and communities. She was recently named on Forbes as one of the top 50 female futurists in the world. She is author of SMART FUTURES FOR A FLOURISHING WORLD: A Paradigm Shift for Achieving Global Sustainability. Under her leadership, the Futures Forum has among other things designed and curated a Semi-annual Webinar Series Space Futures Forum; the first Forum on the Future of the Caribbean Sea, held in Kingston, Jamaica in partnership with the University of the West Indies; as well as Forum on the Future in partnership with the Jamaica Investment Promotion Agency.
John Sweeney, PhD,
holds a UNESCO Chair in Futures and Anticipatory Governance at Westminster International University in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. He also serves on the graduate faculty for the University of Houston’s Master of Strategic Foresight. As an educator and practitioner, he has worked on-the-ground to deliver futures and foresight events, projects, and seminars in 45 countries. John is a member of the Association of Professional Futurists and the World Futures Studies Federation.