Jerome Clayton Glenn

Jerome C. Glenn co-founded and directs the Millennium Project, the leading global participatory think tank supported by international organizations, governments, corporations, and NGOs which produces the internationally recognized State of the Future reports.

Mr. Glenn is the executive director of the American Council for the United Nations University; director, AC/UNU Millennium Project on global futures research and policy; an international development consultant; author of 70 future-oriented articles in such as the Nikkei, ADWEEK, International Tribune, LEADERS, New York Times, Technological Forecasting, Futures Research Quarterly, The Futurist, and co-author of for 1997 (though) 2001 State of the Future, editor of Futures Research Methodology (1999), author of Future Mind: Merging the Mystical and the Technological in the 21st Century (1989 and 1993), Linking the Future: Findhorn, Auroville, Arcosanti (1979), and co-author of Space Trek: The Endless Migration (1978 & 1979).

Mr. Glenn has 30 years experience in futures research for government, international organizations, and private industry in science & technology policy, economics, education, defense, space, forecasting methodology, international telecommunications, and decision support systems with the Millennium Project, Committee for the Future, Hudson Institute, his own firm, the Future Options Room, and as an independent consultant.

He was the deputy director, PfP International involved in micro-credit, national strategic planning, institutional design, training, and evaluation in economic development in Africa, Middle East, Asia, the Caribbean, and Latin America, founded CARINET the computer network in 1983 (now owned by CGNET), and has consulted for corporations, USAID and its contractors, World Bank, UNDP, UNU, UNESCO, US/EPA, DOE, and several governments.

He invented the "Futures Wheel" forecasting technique and Futuristic Curriculum Development; was instrumental in SALT II section that banned the first space weapon (Soviet FOBS); named by Saturday Review as among the most unusually gifted leaders of America for his pioneering work in Tropical Medicine, Future?Oriented Education, and Participatory Decision Making Systems in 1974; was instrumental in naming first space shuttle the "Enterprise;" and is a leading boomerang stunt man.