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Kenos Circle Members
The Directors and Fellows of The Kenos Circle have been chosen from a select list of people known throughout the world for their technical, as well as pedagogical, skills in translating intellectual constructs about the future into workable-and understandable-terms.
Kenos Circle Directors
John Casti
Former member of the faculty of the Santa Fe Institute and currently Senior Research Scholar at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Vienna. Author of many technical monographs on complexity and computer simulation, as well as a number of popular-science expositions.
Michael Zillner
Founder and CEO of Merit, GmbH, the leading firm in financial hedging and management in Austria.
Kenos Circle Fellows
Mika Aaltonen
Planning committee member of WFUNA Millennium Project, member of the European Foresight College and fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Responsible for the research area, strategic intelligence and exploration of futures at Helsinki University of Technology. His recent book The Third Lens was considered the eight most important event in the world in its publication week by Complexity Digest.
Gregory Benford
Has published over twenty books, mostly novels. Nearly all remain in print, some after a quarter of a century. His fiction has won many awards, including the Nebula Award for his novel Timescape. A winner of the United Nations Medal for Literature, he is a professor of physics at the University of California, Irvine. He is a Woodrow Wilson Fellow, was Visiting Fellow at Cambridge University, and in 1995 received the Lord Prize for contributions to science.
James Gardner
James Gardner is a widely published complexity theorist. His new book is entitled The Intelligent Universe: AI, ET, and the Emerging Mind of the Cosmos (www.intelligentuniverse.org). Gardner's first book Biocosm (www.biocosm.org) was selected as one of the 10 best science books of 2003 by the editors of Amazon.com and was featured in major stories in TIME, U.S. News & World Report, Harper's, National Geographic, and other major publications.
Keith Fitz-Gerald
Keith Fitz-Gerald is a noted investment futurist who helps over 285,000 people a day navigate global markets. He is Investment Director of the Money Map Report, Money Morning, and Editor of the New China Trader. A former licensed CTA and professional trade advisor, he has advised institutions and qualified individuals in Europe, Asia and North America on futures options and portfolio management using fractal theory. He is a sought after and popular speaker at international money show events.
Gerhard Hanappi
Jean Monet Professor of Political Economy at the Technical University of Vienna. Head of the European Society for Evolutionary Economics and author of many books and applied studies in this and related fields.
Matthias Horx
Considered the most influential futurist in the German-speaking world. Horx is interested in science-fiction, value change, youth cultures, new technologies. Founded the Zukunftsinstitut in 1998.
Leena Ilmola
Leena Ilmola is focusing her work as a researcher and an advisor on strategic flexibility of social systems. She works with the top management of international corporations in their strategy and scenario projects. Leena Ilmola is also an innovator, she has applied Complex Adaptive Systems theory in development of methods and tools for qualitative research.
Guenter Koch
Former Managing Director of the Austrian Research Center, Seibersdorf. Specialist on knowledge management and its translation into workable procedures for industrial firms and governmental agencies.
Michael Loescher
Managing Director of the Copernicus Group, Inc, a Washington DC-based firm that specializes in government and corporate risk-management strategies. A former US Intelligence Officer, the author of Proteus ...Insights from 2020, which details the largest scenario-based planning project in the world to date.
Theodore Modis
Theodore Modis is a physicist, futurist, strategic analyst, and international consultant. In 1994 he founded Growth Dynamics, an organization specializing in strategic forecasting and management consulting. He employs cross-discipline techniques to analyze data and provide innovative answers to questions concerning the future with emphasis on market trends, business strategy, and change management.
Nebojsa Nakicenovic
Professor at the Technical University of Vienna and Senior Researcher at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analyis. Known world-wide for his work on technological forecasting with focus on climate change and the world's energy perspectives.
Robert R. Prechter, Jr.
Founder of Elliott Wave International, Inc. and The Socionomics Institute. Author of 13 books on finance and social dynamics. Has received awards for analytical work, market timing and trading.
Bill Sarubbi
Most recently, he spent 14 years as a fund manager in the Middle East, and has been operating his own money management and consulting service from Vienna since 2004. He has been applying the cyclical methodologies learned in the market to historical events and to industry analysis.
Thomas Seifert
Is an International Correspondent for DIE PRESSE, Austria's most influential daily broadsheet. He is the co-author of the bestseller, Schwarzbuch Öl
Harry Swain
Former Deputy Minister, Department of Industry in the Canadian government, CEO of Hambros Bank, and now Chairman of Trimble, Ltd, a private consulting firm focused on business and finance.
Markku Wilenius
„ Senior Vice President at Group Development, Allianz SE / Munich, Germany Dec. 2007, director of Trend & Strategy unit 1 Jan 2009. Professor of Futures Research in Turku School of Business 2004. Director of Finland Futures Research Centre 1999-2001, 2003-2007. Member of Club of Rome 2002. Chairman of Woima foundation 2007. Chairman of Walter Ahlstrm foundation 2008.