Forecasting & Planning for the Future | A Pardee Center Conference

Forecasting
Forecasting

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)