Riel Miller, one of the world’s leading independent strategic foresight designers and practitioners, co-creates innovation, leadership and transformation with his clients. For over twenty-five years Riel has been exploring the emergence of post-industrial Learning Intensive Societies. Practitioner and pioneer of a range of techniques for building Futures Literacy, he helps organizations to grasp the potential of the present for innovation and creativity. His learning-by-doing Futures Literacy approach enables organizations to ‘rigorously imagine’ the future and make analytically robust and easily understood links between anticipation and action. Riel also publishes regularly on a wide range of topics, from the future of the Internet to the future of management. He is an accomplished and experienced speaker, master of ceremonies, lecturer, workshop leader, and facilitator.
For details of his education (PhD in economics) and career (at the OECD in Paris, consulting worldwide, public sector) please see www.rielmiller.com. In 2005, after more than two decades working for large organizations, he established xperidox: futures consulting, Paris. Currently he is also a board member of the Association of Professional Futurists; a Fellow of the World Futures Studies Federation; a Faculty Member in the Masters of Public Affairs at Sciences-Po, Paris, France; Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, UK; member of the American Economics Association; and an Associate at Demos, London, UK.