Forecasting & Planning for the Future | A Pardee Center Conference
The conference allowed for many highly esteemed scholars and professionals from a broad range of fields to come together to discuss strategies designed for the 21st century and beyond. The speakers and discussants covered a broad range of subjects including: long-term policy analysis, forecasting for business and investment, the National Intelligence Council Global Trends 2020 report, Europe’s transition from the Marshal plan to the EU, forecasting global transitions, foreign policy planning, and forecasting for defense.
Keynote: Looking Ahead, Prof. Murray Gell-Mann, Santa Fe Institute
Panel Discussion: Long-Term Policy Analysis
James Dewar, RAND Frederick S. Pardee Center for Longer-Range Global Policy and the Future Human Condition
Adil Najam, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University
Panel Discussion: Forecasting for Business
Prof. Lance Morrow, Boston University
Prof. Anita McGahan, Boston University
Dr. Zachary Karabell, Fred Alger Management, Inc.
Panel Discussion: Forecasting for Investment
Prof. David Fromkin, Boston University
Dr. Ian Bremmer, Eurasia Group
Prof. William Grimes, Boston University
Panel Discussion: NIC Global Trends 2020
Dr. Enid C. B. Schoettle, Special Advisor to the Chairman, National Intelligence Council
Dr. Matthew Burrows, Analysis and Planning, National Intelligence Council
Prof. Ralph Buultjens, New York University
Panel Discussion: Planning a Foreign Policy
Prof. Walter Connor, Boston University
Prof. Philip Bobbitt, School of Law, University of Texas at Austin
Prof. David Fromkin, The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, Boston University
Panel Discussion: Forecasting Global Transitions as a Tool for Planning
Prof. Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Kennedy School, Harvard University
Prof. Barry Hughes, Graduate School of International Studies, University of Denver
Prof. Cutler Cleveland, Center for Energy and Environmental Sciences, Boston University
Panel Discussion: Forecasting for Defense
Prof. Uri Ra’Anan, Boston University
Prof. Andrew Bacevich, Boston University
Prof. Joachim Maitre, Boston University
Panel Discussion: An Ongoing Case Study: Europe from the Marshall Plan to the EU
Prof. Strom Thacker, Boston University
Prof. Vivien Schmidt, Boston University
Prof. Renee Haferkamp, Center for European Studies, Harvard University
Final Keynote: Sir Colin Mc Coll, HM SIS (MI6, retired)