Below is our starter list of foresight professionals / professional futurists, people who look to and analyze the long-term (5+ year) future for paying clients (including universities), any of the following primary, secondary, or other foresight specialties.

For a sublist specifically of educators, see Foresight Educators - Global List.

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1. North America
(Canada, USA, Mexico, Central America, Carribean Nations)
Canada
Lynn-Elen Burton, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada (Emeritus or Retired)
George Dvorsky, Toronto, Canada
Mexico
Leonel Casanova, Monterrey Institute of Technology, Monterrey, Mexico
USA
Brad Allenby, Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ USA
Walter T. Anderson, World Acad. of Art and Science, San Francisco CA USA
J. Scott Armstrong, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA USA
Forecasting, Statistics, Long-Range Planning, Probabilistic Prediction
Don Beck, Center for Human Emergence, Denton, TX USA
Wendell Bell, Yale University, New Haven, CT USA (Emeritus or Retired)
Clem Bezold, Founder and Chairman, Institute for Alternative Futures, Alexandria, VA USA (email)
Alternative futures, horizon scanning, scenario development, health care futures.
Peter Bishop, University of Houston, Houston, TX USA (email)
Futures education, futures methods, futures consulting. Dr. Bishop runs the oldest MS program in futures in the world (started 1975).
Stewart Brand, Long Now Foundation, San Francisco, CA USA
David Brin, Acclaimed Science Fiction Author and Futurist, San Diego, CA USA (email)
Physicist, polymath. Public speaker. Interests: social change, openness, innovation, philanth, SETI. Author: The Transparent Society.
Lonny J Avi Brooks, Cal State East Bay, Hayward, CA USA
Professor of Comm.. IFTF and Futures-Related PhD. Future of Cyberculture. Ethnographic futures. Social Study of Sci&Tech (STS).
Roger Caldwell, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ USA (Emeritus or Retired)
Jeff Camm, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH USA
Stuart Candy, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI USA
James Canton, Institute for Global Futures, San Francisco, CA USA (email)
Future trends, health care, life sciences, energy, security, climate change, globalization.
Jamais Cascio, Open the Future, East Bay, CA USA (email)
Urban design, climate science, renewable energy, open source models, emerging technologies, social networks.
David Clemens, Monterey Peninsula College, Monterey, CA USA
Joseph Coates, Joseph Coates Consulting Futurist, Washington, DC USA
William Cockayne, Director, Stanford Center for Critical Foresight, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA USA (email)
Ed: Mech. engrg, design, comp. science. L-R planning, foresight, innovation. Fdr, Change Resrch. Affil., IFTF. Author: Mobile Agents.
Jeff Cole, University of Southern California, CA USA
Sam Cole, SUNY Buffalo, Buffalo, NY USA
Bruce Cordell, Dean of Natural Sciences, Fullerton College, Fullerton, CA USA (email)
Runs the Center for the Future at Fullerton College. PhD in Planetary and Space Physics. Research: Mars missions, space colonization.
Jim Dator, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI USA
J. Bradford DeLong, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA USA
James Dewar, RAND Graduate School, Santa Monica, CA USA
Jake Dunagan, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI USA
Jay Gary, Regent University, Virginia Beach, VA USA
Jerry Glenn, ACUNU Millennium Project, Washington, DC USA
Terry Grim, University of Houston, Houston, TX USA
Garry Golden, HoustonMS Futures Studies Graduate, Brooklyn, NY USA
Susantha Goonatilake, New School for Social Research, New York, NY USA
Ted Gordon, ACUNU Millennium Project, Washington, DC USA
Linda Groff, California State University Dominguez Hills, Carson, CA USA
James Gunn, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS USA
Art Harkins, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN USA
Ted Hailes, Air War College, Maxwell Air Force Base, Montgomery, AL USA
Bill Halal, George Washington University, Washington, DC USA (Emeritus or Retired)
Robin Hanson, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA USA
Brian Harris, University of Advancing Technology, Phoenix, AZ USA
Hazel Henderson, Ethical Markets Media, St. Augustine, FL USA
Andy Hines, University of Houston, Houston, TX USA
Barry Hughes, University of Denver, Denver, CO USA
Lane Jennings, World Future Society, Washington, DC USA
Christopher Jones, NeoFutures, Grand Junction, CO USA
Nelson R. Kellogg, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA USA
Robert J. Lempert, RAND Graduate School, Santa Monica, CA USA
Martin Levy, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH USA
Hal Linstone, Portland State University, Portland, OR USA (Emeritus or Retired)
Tom Lombardo, Rio Salado Community College, Tempe, AZ USA
Timothy Mack, World Future Society, Washington, DC USA
Michael Marien, WFS Future Survey, Bethesda, MD USA
Oliver Markley, University of Houston-Clear Lake, Houston, TX USA (Emeritus or Retired)
Gary Marx, President, Center for Public Outreach, Vienna, VA USA (email)
Futures education, communication, community, democracy consulting. Author: Ten Trends, Sixteen Trends, Future-Focused Leadership.
Barbara Marx-Hubbard, Fdn for Conscious Evolution, Santa Barbara, CA USA
Max More, Extropy Institute Chairman, Austin TX USA
Burt Nanus, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA USA (Emeritus or Retired)
Jonathan Peck, Institute for Alternative Futures, Alexandria, VA USA
John Petersen, The Arlington Institute, Alexandria, Virginia USA
Sorel Reisman, Prof. of Info Systems and Decision Sciences, CSU Fullerton. Director, Merlot.org, Newport Beach CA USA (email)
Merlot.org is a platform for online learning materials. Int: Acad. Tech, Info Systems. Author: Electronic Learning Communities, 2003
David Rejeski, Woodrow Wilson Intnat'l Ctr for Scholars, Washington DC USA
Marsha Rhea, Institute for Alternative Futures, Alexandria, VA USA
Reed Riner, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff AZ USA
Jonathon Richter, Research Associate, Center for Advanced Tech in Education (CATE), U. of Oregon, Eugene, OR USA (email)
Running an SL project at Merlot.org. Int: vPortfolios, Virtual learning (Second Life, etc.), Web 2.0, Serious Games, Sustainability.
Paul Saffo, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA USA
Siva Sankrithi, Lakeside School and RSV Invention and Creation Enterprises, Seattle, WA
Peter Schwartz, Global Business Network, Emeryville, CA USA
Art Shostak, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA USA (Emeritus or Retired)
John Smart, University of Advancing Technology, Phoenix, AZ USA
Bruce Snyder, Regent University, Virginia Beach, VA USA
Simeon Spearman, Social Technologies, Washington, DC USA
Steve Steele, Anne Arundel Community College, Arnold MA USA
David Stein, WFS FutureTakes, Washington, DC USA
Ernest Sternberg, SUNY Buffalo, Buffalo, NY USA
Gregory Stock, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles CA USA
Melanie Swan, MS Futures Group, Palo Alto, CA USA
Philip Tetlock, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA USA
Len Troncale, Cal State University, Pomona (Secondary FS)
A leading scholar of systems science, systems thinking, and systems biology.
Robert Ulanowicz, University of Maryland, College Park, MD USA (Secondary FS)
Theoretical biology. Studies ecosystem dynamics in quant. and quasipredictive ways that can be broadly applied to social systems.
Natasha Vita-More, Extropy Institute, philosopher of transhumanism
Cindy Wagner, World Future Society, Washington, DC USA
Wendell Wallach, Yale University, New Haven, CT USA
Verne Wheelwright, Personal Futures Network, Harlingen, TX USA
Cindy Frewen Wuellner, University of Houston, Houston, TX USA


2. South America
(Columbia to Argentina)
Brazil
Arnoldo J. de Hoyos, Sao Paulo Catholic Univ. (PUC-SP), Sao Paulo, Brazil
Colombia
Francisco Mojica, Universidad External de Colombia, Bogota, Colombia
Venezuela
Jose Cordeiro, University Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela


3. Europe
(EU plus Regional Nations, Iceland to Turkey)
Belgium
Francis Heylighen, Free University of Brussels (VUB), Brussels, Belgium