GLOBAL X-NETWORK - Key Persons
Adrian Taylor Founder 4Sing Foresight to Strategy for Security and Sustainability in Governance - Hamburg, Germany Adrian Taylor helps both public and private sector clients to use [...]
Founder 4Sing Foresight to Strategy for Security and Sustainability in Governance - Hamburg, Germany
Adrian Taylor helps both public and private sector clients to use foresight methods to formulate robust strategy options. His role is that of providing content input, process design as well as workshop moderation, especially in security and sustainability-related issues. He has experience in using a number of methods that leverage Open Source Intelligence, and the Parmenides Eidos Suite of software tools for supporting (but not in any way replacing) human reasoning to anticipate future changes in the world outside. In the course of his work he has had occasion to work in over 40 countries and runs workshops in English, French, and German. Adrian has over two decades of working experience, and has previously been a junior officer in the British Army, a lobbyist on EU matters, a scenario planner in a joint venture with Global Business Network, Desk Officer for India at the European Commission and a visiting scholar at Georgia Tech, before joining the European School of Governance (eusg) - his last job prior to becoming self-employed. He was also President of the European Open Source Intelligence Forum in parallel to his employment with the eusg.
His education includes: Degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics Trinity College Oxford, and a License Spéciale (Masters) in European Studies with "Grande Distinction" from the Université Libre deBruxelles. Adrian is also the author of a number of published essays and regularly contributes editorial pieces to on-line journals. Adrian was born and raised in London, England, and has subsequently spent over 30 years living elsewhere, notably Gibraltar, Brussels, Atlanta, Zurich, New York, and Munich. He currently resides in Hamburg.
Dr. William B. Rouse is a researcher, educator, author and entrepreneur. His current positions include Alexander Crombie Humphreys Chair in Economics of Engineering in the School of Systems and Enterprises at Stevens Institute of Technology and Professor Emeritus in the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His earlier positions include Executive Director of the university-wide Tennenbaum Institute, Chair of the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, CEO of two innovative software companies - Enterprise Support Systems and Search Technology - and earlier faculty positions at Georgia Tech, University of Illinois, Delft University of Technology, and Tufts University. His expertise includes individual and organizational decision making and problem solving, as well as design of organizations and information systems. In these areas, he has consulted with well over one hundred large and small enterprises in the private, public, and non-profit sectors, where he has worked with several thousand executives and senior managers. His current research focuses on understanding and managing complex public-private systems such as healthcare, energy and defense, with emphasis on mathematical and computational modeling of these systems for the purpose of policy design and analysis. Among many advisory roles, he has served as Chair of the Committee on Human Factors of the National Research Council, a member of the U.S. Air Force Scientific Advisory Board, and a member of the DoD Senior Advisory Group on Modeling and Simulation. He has been designated a lifetime National Associate of the National Research Council and National Academies. Rouse received his B.S. from the University of Rhode Island, and his S.M. and Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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- Contributor to the Nordic Thematic Group
- Researcher at the Finland Futures Research Centre
Ana Jones is an urban researcher at the Finland Futures Research Centre (FFRC) in the University of Turku-Finland. She works on interdisciplinary research combining future studies and urban planning and ecology.
For the past 16 years, Ana has been researching on the sustainable development of urban cores and the future of urban nature for well-being. She provides advice on strategic planning and has collaborated with the strategy unit of the City of Turku on the future of greening historic cores for livability exploring new potential beyond standard planning practices. Her most recent work includes content generation for the Urban Futures Podcast, a global learning and knowledge exchange platform Ana initiated to debate with authorities, experts, authors, and others in the field, on the future of life in urban areas.
Ana is a contributor to the Nordic Thematic Group, Sustainable Cities and Urban Development supporting urban visions of the green and recreative city in the Nordic Region. She is also an associate member of the Finnish National committee of the Club of Rome (FICOR).
Expertise: Urban research, Strategy, Interdisciplinary planning, and Communications.
Education: MSc in Resource Efficiency in Urban Planning, HafenCity University Hamburg-Germany; BA in Interior Architecture, Boston Architectural College-MA
Ana Jones Ana Jones is an urban researcher at the Finland Futures Research Centre (FFRC) in the University of Turku-Finland. She works on interdisciplinary research [...]
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- Founding Partner of the "Global X - Network
Brenda is a founding partner of the "Global X-Network". The mission of the Network is to build a new theory about uncertainty (Theory of Surprise) and develop pragmatic understandings of resilience of national/international economies and organizations and cities. The Global X-Network is a global organization of cross discipline researchers from Japan, Korea, Singapore, Austria, Germany, Czech Republic,USA and Finland.
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- CEO
- President
- COO Global X - Network and X - Events
- Founder Global X - Network, X - Center Community Silicon Valley, USA, X - Center Silicon Valley, USA, Xevents Unlimited
- President and CEO Global Connexus / CEO Global X - Network President and CEO Global Connexus
Brenda J. Fox President and CEO Global Connexus CEO Global X-Network ; President and CEO Global Connexus Brenda is a founding partner of the "Global [...]
Brenda has held executive management roles as founder and CEO Global Connexus, President Codenomicon US Operations, CIO ReadRite, VP Application Services AristaSoft, VP Professional Service CompuCom, Director IT Safeguard Business Systems and Director IT Prime Minister Trudeau's office.
As an integral part of these management teams two of these start-ups grew to $1.5B in sales in less than 5 years each and successfully raised over $200mil in Venture Capital. As a result of these positions, Brenda has been involved in a number of vertical markets in the US and Asia and is very familiar with their business processes, products, services and competition. Brenda was also responsible for an outsourced operation in Hyderabad India.
Brenda has personally worked closely over the past five years with many Finnish companies to assist them in launching and building their networks in North America and including two plus years as President of US Operations for Codenomicon a software security company.
Chihiro Watanabe, manages the Watanabe Laboratory at Tokyo Seitoku University . The laboratory is a Center of Excellence (COE) for the analysis of the emergence, diffusion and utilization of innovation focusing on co-evolutionary dynamism with institutional systems.
Watanabe was a leader of the "The Science of Institutional Management of Technology" program under the 21st Century Center of Excellence (COE) Program supported by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (2004-2009) at Tokyo Institute of Technology. He was a pioneer in developing a postulate of the co-evolution between innovation and institutional systems in a global society. He was selected as one of the world's top seven researchers in the field of management of technology (MOT) and innovation by the International Association of Management of Technology (IAMOT) in April 2009, and was also identified as one of the world's top researchers in the field of innovation analysis in MOT by IEEE IEEM (Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management section of IEEE) in December 2009.
Professor Watanabe currently holds the following positions: Professor, Department of Industrial Management, Tokyo Seitoku University; Professor Emeritus, Tokyo Institute of Technology; Visiting Professor, National University of Singapore; Visiting Professor, University of Jyvaskyla in Finland; and Guest Scholar, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Vienna. In addition to conducting leading worldwide research, Professor Watanabe chairs the monthly evening forum of the International Committee of the Japan Society for Science Policy and Research Management in the capacity of Chairman of the Committee. He shares a role of an Area Editor of Technovation in the areas of IT and National Policy.
Chihiro Watanabe graduated from Tokyo University with a bachelor's degree in engineering (urban planning) in 1968 and received his Ph. D. (arts and science) in1992, also from Tokyo University.
Watanabe joined Japan's Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) in 1968 and spent 26 years there, chiefly working in the fields of industrial policy, industrial technology policy, and energy and environmental policies. He is former Deputy Director-General of Technology Development of the Ministry.
From 1995 Professor Watanabe Joined Tokyo Institute of Technology and worked as a professor at Department of Industrial Engineering and Management of the Graduate School of Decision Science and Technology of the Institute. He is former Vice-Dean of the Graduate School and also a Councilor (member of the council) of the Institute.
He was a leader of Japan's Ministry of Education, Culture, Sport, Science and Technology's (MEXT) 21st Century Center of Excellence (COE) Project: Science of Institutional Management of Technology (SIMOT), and was Director of the Research Center for the Science of Institutional Management of Technology.
He was a pioneer in developing a postulate of the co-evolution between innovation and institutional systems in a global society. He was selected as one of the world's top seven researchers in the field of management of technology (MOT) and innovation by the International Association of Management of Technology (IAMOT), and was also identified as one of the world's top researchers in the field of innovation analysis in MOT by IEEE IEEM in 2009. In home country, he was awarded JSSPRM (Japan Society for Science Policy & Research Management) Most Significant Contributor Award, and also Minister of Education, Science & Technology Award in 2009. In addition, he was awarded by the Emperor of Japan The Order of the Sacred Treasure (Gold Rays with Rosette) in 2014.
He is currently a Professor Emeritus of Tokyo Institute of Technology; Visiting Professor of National University of Singapore; Visiting Professor of University of Jyvaskyla in Finland; and Research Scholar of International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Vienna.
His research fields are technology innovation management, institutional innovation, techno-economics, technology innovation, and technology policy.
He is an editorial board member of several international journals, including area editor in information technology and national policy of Technovation.
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- Founder, Board Member BSAG - Baltic Sea Action Group / Foundation for a Living Baltic Sea Dr. Anna Kotsalo - Mustonen Has a Versatile Experience from [.]
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- Director of the Center for Theoretical Study
David Storch is the director of the Center for Theoretical Study, the Institute for Advanced Studies, jointly established and run by Charles University in Prague and the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, and a professor at the Department of Ecology, Faculty of Sciences of Charles University. Formerly he was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Sheffield (UK) and an international fellow at the Santa Fe Institute (USA). He is a biologists interested in macroecology, biodiversity, ecological theory, evolutionary ecology and the dynamics of complex systems. He coauthored about fifty papers and six books, including an edited volume Scaling biodiversity (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2007) and a German textbook of evolutionary biology Evolution: Ein Lese-Lehrbuch (Spektrum Akademischer Verlag, Heidelberg, 2009). He is an ediitor of the journal Ecology Letters.
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- Founder Global X - Network, X - Center Helsinki, Finland, X - Center Vienna, Austria, Xevents Unlimited
Research Scholar at International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) Founder Global X-Network, X-Center Helsinki, Finland, X-Center Vienna, Austria, Xevents Unlimited Leena has a background both as a strategist, researcher and management consultant in foresight and strategy processes...
Dr. William B. Rouse Alexander Crombie Humphreys Professor School of Systems & Enterprises (SSE) Dr. William B. Rouse is a researcher, educator, author and entrepreneur. His [...]
Dr. William B. Rouse is a researcher, educator, author and entrepreneur. His current positions include Alexander Crombie Humphreys Chair in Economics of Engineering in the School of Systems and Enterprises at Stevens Institute of Technology and Professor Emeritus in the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His earlier positions include Executive Director of the university-wide Tennenbaum Institute, Chair of the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, CEO of two innovative software companies - Enterprise Support Systems and Search Technology - and earlier faculty positions at Georgia Tech, University of Illinois, Delft University of Technology, and Tufts University. His expertise includes individual and organizational decision making and problem solving, as well as design of organizations and information systems. In these areas, he has consulted with well over one hundred large and small enterprises in the private, public, and non-profit sectors, where he has worked with several thousand executives and senior managers. His current research focuses on understanding and managing complex public-private systems such as healthcare, energy and defense, with emphasis on mathematical and computational modeling of these systems for the purpose of policy design and analysis. Among many advisory roles, he has served as Chair of the Committee on Human Factors of the National Research Council, a member of the U.S. Air Force Scientific Advisory Board, and a member of the DoD Senior Advisory Group on Modeling and Simulation. He has been designated a lifetime National Associate of the National Research Council and National Academies. Rouse received his B.S. from the University of Rhode Island, and his S.M. and Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Professor John L. Casti received his Ph.D. in mathematics under Richard Bellman at the University of Southern California in 1970.
He worked at the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica, CA, and served on the faculties of the University of Arizona, Santa Fe Institute in Santa Fe, New Mexico, NYU and Princeton before becoming one of the first members of the research staff at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Vienna, Austria.
In 2000 he formed two companies in Santa Fe and London, Qforma, Inc. and SimWorld, Ltd, devoted to the employment of tools and concepts from modern system theory for the solution of problems in business and finance.
American complexity scientist and systems theorist John Casti, is cofounder of The X-Center Vienna, a research institute focusing on human-caused extreme events and how to anticipate them.
Casti has published nearly twenty volumes of academic and popular science and received his Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Southern California. He lives in Vienna, Austria.
Jonathan Buhl is in parallel working for 4Sing GmbH and independently as a strategy consultant. He still uses the tools and methods of his former employer, the European School of Governance (eusg), a company specialised in supporting the public sector with skills, tools, capabilities and software-based tools to support human reasoning processes. As a consultant he specialised in scenario based strategizing and project conception. He was recently involved in a resource modeling project for the German environment agency, connecting a system dynamic with an econometric modeling system. Furthermore he was responsible for a crowd-visioning project in Sfax, Tunesia, supporting local authorities in developing a regional development action plan on the basis of the ideas of the community members. His skills include systemic organizational analysis and development techniques, as well as comprehensive monitoring and evaluation systems.
Professor Markku Wilenius received his Ph. D. in Political Sciences and completed his doctoral thesis on sociology of climate change in 1997. Dr. Markku Wilenius has acted among the very few professors of futures studies in the whole world.
His genuine interests lie in understanding the challenges and possibilities of the long-term future and bringing this foresight to the strategic thinking of society and companies.
During his career he has served in many major companies and high-level governmental bodies to bring new insight to their future activities. Markku has had a deep interest in understanding how culture can be seen more clearly as an asset for the whole society as well as for the companies.
In 2002-2004 he lead a major study where he, together with his research group, looked more closely at the interaction between culture and economics with the idea that this insight can contribute essentially to our understanding of the future competitiveness of Finnish society at large. As a result, in 2004 he published a widely appreciated book "Towards Creative Economy". He has continued this work by using values assessment methods with a number of companies to analyze their current organization culture.
He is Vice-Chair of the advisory board of the European Futurists Conference, a body for professional European futurists. His current major research effort is to understand the long socio-economic waves and their implications particularly to Finnish economy and society.
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- Senior Associate
- Development Policy Specialist
Martina is an experienced development policy specialist and futurist, with academic background of political science, socio-economic geography and history (Master of Arts from Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich, Germany). She is a passionate cross-disciplinary system-thinker, and advocates for sustainable ecosystem transformation, promoting participative future strategy development. Martina is convinced of the value and the need for long-term anticipation of multiple players, in face of climate-related extreme events and increasing uncertainty. Martina has held a variety of senior leadership positions. As an official in an international organization, she worked on peer reviews and on strategic knowledge sharing with emerging economies, closely linked to strategic foresight.
Martina Kampmann: Senior Associate 4Sing Foresight to Strategy for Security and Sustainability in Governance, Germany. Martina is an experienced development policy specialist and futurist, with [...]
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- Junior Strategy Consultant
Petra Wiesbrock is a junior strategy consultant who has extensive experience of using a variety of tools like Parmenides Eidos™ and Futurescaper™ for consultation, scenarios
Phill has 20 years of managerial and executive experience in Canada, the Caribbean, and Europe. He has worked in several industries, including: Management Consulting, Financial Services, Medical Monitoring Devices, and Government. In addition, he has served as a Board member and Advisory Committee member for local charities. He is a dual citizen of Canada and Italy.
Areas of expertise: Strategic Planning, Technology, Project Management, Operations Management, and Customer Service.
Phill White Phill has 20 years of managerial and executive experience in Canada, the Caribbean, and Europe. He has worked in several industries, including: Management [...]
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- Research Fellow at the Center for Complex Systems
- Research Fellow at the Center for Complex Systems and Enterprises at Stevens Institute of Technology
Roger D. Jones is an American physicist and entrepreneur. His current appointment is with the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, NJ, USA.
Jones, trained in physics at Dartmouth College, Jones worked as a staff physicist at Los Alamos National Laboratory from 1979 to 1995. His primary research interests were in laser fusion and machine learning.
In the early nineties he headed projects that applied his machine learning inventions to technical problems in the private sector. In 1995 in collaboration with Citibank, Jones co-founded the Center for Adaptive Systems Applications (CASA), a company that applied neural network and adaptive technology to consumer banking. CASA was acquired by HNC Software in March 2000, at the peak of the dotcom boom. HNC Software was subsequently acquired by Fair Isaac Corporation. Much of the technology developed at CASA became part of the credit scoring offerings of Fair Isaac.
Jones along with other Santa Fe scientists and entrepreneurs such as Doyne Farmer, Norman Packard, Stuart Kauffman, and David Weininger founded several other high-technology startup companies in the emerging Santa Fe technology community, dubbed by Wired Magazine as the "Info Mesa." Much of the effort of these startups focused on finance and the catastrophic reinsurance industry. By 2004 the companies Jones co-founded merged into a single company, Qforma, Inc., that focused on adaptive and predictive technologies for the pharmaceutical industry. In June of 2013 Qforma merged with SkilaMederi.
Jones's current research interests are in X-Events (extreme events), serious video games, and biological intracellular signaling. He recently co-authored the book Confronting Complexity with John Casti and Michael Pennock. His serious video games are being developed and have been adopted by the University of North Carolina and the University of New Mexico, as well as by the U.S. government. Jones's recent scientific publications examine the role of cells as biological computers.
Dr. Roger Jones Research Fellow at the Center for Complex Systems and Enterprises at Stevens Institute of Technology Roger D. Jones is an American physicist and [...]
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- Researcher
- Researcher Center for Global Environmental Research / National Institute for Environmental Studies
- Special Senior Researcher Center for Global Environmental Research National Institute for Environmental Studies Onogawa
Yoshiki YAMAGATA graduated from The University of Tokyo (PhD in System Science). In 1991, he joined the National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES). As a principal researcher of the Center for Global Environmental Research (CGER), he is studying climate risk management modeling. He is also a Research Scholar at IIASA and a Visiting Professor at the Institute of Statistical Mathematics (ISM). His research topics include: land-use scenario, risk management, policy diffusion. He has been teaching at The University of Tokyo, University of Tsukuba and Hokkaido University, and contributing to international activities such as IPCC and Global Carbon Project, as well as to journals of Applied Energy etc.
Yoshiki Yamagata, Ph.D. Researcher Center for Global Environmental Research National Institute for Environmental Studies, Japan Yoshiki Yamagata, Ph. D. Special Senior Researcher Center for Global [...]