He has over 45 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 300 conferences for leading corporations, governments, UN organizations, and universities around the world. His first email was 1973.

 

Recent research includes: Future Work/Tech 2050 Global Scenarios, collective intelligence systems, hidden hunger, elements of the next economic systems, 

venerable urban coastlines, Education 2030, Emerging International Environmental Security Issues, Global Energy Scenarios for 2020, 

the Future of Ethics, 2025 S&T 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 was instrumental in getting packet switching 

(that makes Internet low cost) in nearly 20 countries in the development word and is 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, feminine brain drain, management by understanding, self-actualization economy, and “Nodes” as a management concept 

for interconnecting global and local views and actions, and definitions of environmental security, collective intelligence, and information warfare. 

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 200 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 & Social Change, 

World Future Review, and The Futurist. He is the 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 awarded honorary professorship and doctor’s degrees from Peru, Bolivia, and Chile.  

He received the Emerald Citation of Excellence, 2008 Bled Forum on Europe, Donella Meadows Metal (Club of Rome-USA), Kondratieff Metal (Russia), 

Fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science and the Union of International Associations, and is a leading boomerang stunt man.