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COMMITTEES.

Scientific Committee

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ERIK ØVERLAND

President of the World Futures Federation, WFSF. Erik works on several foresight projects in Norway and throughout Europe. Erik holds a PhD in in futures studies from the Free University of Berlin, and is the author of several books and articles on futures reasoning. Erik is also an co-editor-in-chief for the European Journal for Futures Research, EJFR

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​VICTOR V. MOTTI

Director of the World Futures Studies Federation (WFSF). Based in the Middle East, his new book published in the UK, is titled: "A Transformation Journey to Creative and Alternative Planetary Futures". He has been a guest scholar at international conferences in Europe, North Africa and Asia, speaking on key transitions at planetary and regional levels for the 2030, 2050 and 2060 horizons.

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THIERRY GAUDIN

Elected to the Executive Board in 2013 for a four-year term and re-elected in 2017. He is sent from the President to UNESCO in Paris and President of "Prospective 2100", a non-profit organization that studies global programs for the 21st century .

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​MEI MEI SONG

She has a Ph.D. in education from Columbia University, USA. UU (2001) and is currently founder and director of the Center for Intelligence and Futures Research (C-FAR) of the University of Tamkang, Taiwan. From 2007-2010 she was the managing editor of the Journal of Futures Studies.

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THOMAS LOMBARDO

WFSF Executive Board Member. He is the Executive Director of the Center for Future Consciousness, the Director of The Wisdom Page, the Managing Editor of the online magazine Wisdom and the Future, and Professor Emeritus and the Chair of Psychology, Philosophy and the Future of the Faculty Retired in Tempe, Arizona.

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​JIM DATOR

Professor and director of the Research Center of Futures Studies of Hawaii, Department of Political Science of the University of Hawaii at Manoa. He received his bachelor's degree from Stetson University where he graduated magna cum laude.

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​ROBERTO POLI

Associate professor at the University of Trento. In 2013 he obtained the first Unesco Chair in Anticipatory Systems. In 2014, he launched the first master's degree in Social Security. With Simone Arnaldi he published Social Forecasting. Introduction to the study of the future (2012).

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​JAY GARY

Dr. Jay Gary, one of the leading prospective educators in the United  
States is an associate professor of anticipatory leadership at Oral  
Roberts University. He presently serves as the Chair of the  
Association of Professional Futurists.  

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RICHARD SLAUGHTER

Academic and writer in the field of futures studies, applied prospective and social innovation. He is co-director of Foresight International and has edited Futures and foresight journals.

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​SOHAIL INAYATULLAH

He is an Australian academic born in Pakistan, researcher of future studies and a visiting professor at the Institute of Graduate Futures Studies of Tamkang University in Taipei, Taiwan.

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JOSÉ RAMOS

He holds a PhD from the Queensland University of Technology in Global Studies, Prospective and Sustainability. He has taught and lectured at the Swinburne University of Technology on Strategic Foresight, Sustainability Strategy, Political Economy and Community Development, and at the University of Victoria in Community Development.

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​STUART CANDY

He is a design futurist on a mission to bring foresight to life, producing participatory, guerrilla and future experiential interventions to model a wiser and more vital culture.

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​GUILLERMINA BAENA

Chair of this Committee. Elected to the Executive Board in 2009, appointed in 2013 as Vice President of the Latin American Region and re-elected in 2017 for a second term of four years. Guillermina is regional vice president of the WFSF and also general secretary of the Iberam Chapter. She is a professor at the National Autonomous University of Mexico.

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​LUIS RAGNO

Director Center for Prospective Studies. Faculty of Political and Social Sciences National University of Cuyo Mendoza

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​JORDI SERRA

Serra is a consultant specialized in foresight, strategy and intelligence. He is currently director of Research at the Center for Post-Normal Policy & Futures Studies and Associate Professor at Blanquerna (Ramon Llull University) where he coordinates a Master's Degree in Global Security and Anticipatory Intelligence.

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​GUILLERMINA

BENAVIDES

Professor and Director of the Master's Program in Strategic Prospecting at the School of Government and Public Transformation of the Tecnológico de Monterrey. She holds a PhD from the University of Texas at Arlington and the Autonomous University of Nuevo Leon. He has attended executive seminars on future studies, scenarios and energy policy at the University of Oxford, the University of Houston and Harvard University and is also a strategic and future prospective consultant for some of the most important companies in Mexico. He is also an active member of the Association of Professional Futurists (APF) and the World Futures Studies Federation (WFSF). "

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​LUCIO HENAO

WFSF Executive Board Member. Professional in Industrial Economics, postgraduate in organizational prospective and complementary studies in foresight, planning, development and management of innovation, active listening of the Sonidosofía / Intulisten. Skills of planning, business valuation, formulation and evaluation of projects, forecast, scenarios and future studies conformed by more than 3 decades of experience and academy.

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​ALETHIA MONTERO

Vice-chair  of this Committee. Pioneer of Teatro del Devenir (Forward Theater), Psychoprospective generator. Teach the Future México Director. Personal Futures adviser. Lecturer and workshop coordinator at  national and international levels.

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​ROSA ALEGRÍA

Futurist, Graduated from the University of Houston, Clear Lake, Co-Chair of the Brazilian Millennium Node Project, Research Director of the Futures Group of the Catholic University of Sao Paulo, Executive Director of the Ethical Market, the Brazilian Version of Ethical Markets, a multimedia platform on sustainability and corporate social responsibility, created by Hazel Henderson.

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​TOMÁS MIKLOS

Tomás Miklos is already an institution in prospective, with a long career in this field his first book Prospective Planning, has become a must-read classic for those who venture into the field of futures.

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​ANTONIO ALONSO CONCHEIRO

Electrical engineer and master by the UNAM and doctor in Control Engineering by the Imperial College of Science and Technology, London, England. He was director of the Javier Barros Sierra Foundation, AC, and the Center for Prospective Studies, AC. He is a member of the Executive Council of the World Futures Studies Federation (Paris, France) and the Institute for 21st Century Studies (Washington DC, United States). Currently, he is secretary of the Multidisciplinary Program of Prospective and Planning of the Engineering Academy of Mexico.

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​KARLA PANIAGUA

She is a Mexican writer and researcher. She graduated in Communication Sciences from the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Xochimilco and a teacher in Social Anthropology from the Center for Research and Higher Studies in Social Anthropology. She currently works as a research coordinator at the Center for Design, Film and Television. He has written mini-essays, essays, opinion columns and articles of dissemination and research. In addition, he collaborates in print and digital media such as Tierra Adentro, Cuicuilco, El Universo del Búho, Metapolitica, Nexos and Ichan Tecolotl.

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