Jerome Glenn

Jerome C. Glenn gives the most extraordinary overview of the global situation, prospects for the future, and actions to build a better tomorrow.  He is the Executive Director of The Millennium Project (on global futures research) is rated among the top ten think tanks in the world for new ideas/paradigms by the University of Pennsylvania's Go To Think Tank Index and is the co-author of the annual State of the Future of the Millennium Project for the past eighteen years.

He has over 40 years of Futures Research experience working for governments, international organizations, and private industry in Science & Technology Policy, Economics, Education, Defense, Space, Forecasting Methodology, International Telecommunications, and Decision Support Systems with the Committee for the Future, Hudson Institute, and his own firm, the Future Options Room. He has keynoted over 200 conferences for leading corporations, governments, and universities around the world.

Recent research includes: collective intelligence systems, elements of the next economic systems, Education 2030, International Environmental Security Issues, Global Energy Scenarios for 2020, the Future of Ethics, 2025 Science and Technology Scenarios, and Middle East Peace Scenarios.

Glenn was the Deputy Director of Partnership for Productivity International involved in small business development, mirco credit, national strategic planning, institutional design, training, and evaluation in economic development in Africa, the Middle East, Asia, the Caribbean, and Latin America and created CARINET in 1983 as the leading computer network in the developing world subsequently bought by CGAIR. He has been an independent consultant for the World Bank, UN organizations, and several governments and corporations.

He invented the "Futures Wheel" a futures assessment technique, Futuristic Curriculum Development, and concepts such as conscious-technology, transinstutions, tele-nations, management by understanding, and definitions of environmental security, feminine brain drain, just-in-time knowledge, information warfare, feelysis, and nodes as a management concept for interconnecting global and local views and actions. Saturday Review named him among the most unusually gifted leaders of America for his pioneering work in Tropical Medicine (national Leprosy system while a Peace Corp Volunteer), Future-Oriented Education, and Participatory Decision Making Systems in 1974. He was instrumental in naming the first Space Shuttle the Enterprise and banning the first space weapon (FOBS) in SALT II.

His publications include over 100 future-oriented articles in publications such as the Nikkei, ADWEEK, International Tribune, LEADERS, New York Times, McGraw-Hill's Contemporary Learning Series, Current, Royal Society of Arts (RSA) Journal, Foresight, Futures, Technological Forecasting, Futures Research Quarterly, and The Futurist. He is editor of Futures Research Methodology versions 1.0 and 2.0, author of Future Mind, Linking the Future, and co-author of Space Trek: The Endless Migration.

Jerome C. Glenn has a BA in philosophy, an MA in Teaching Social Science - Futuristics, was a doctoral candidate in general futures research at the University of Massachusetts, and was awarded honorary professorship and doctor's degrees from Peru and Chile. He received the Emerald Citation of Excellence, 2008 Bled Forum on Europe, Donella Meadows Metal (Club of Rome-USA), Kondratieff Metal (Russia), and is a leading boomerang stunt man.