Jerome C. Glenn is the co-founder and CEO of The Millennium Project on global futures research and The Millennium Project Team for the past twenty years. He was the Washington D.C. representative for the United Nations University as an executive director of the American Council for the UN University from 1988 to 2007. He has over 40 years of futures research experience working for governments, international organizations, and private industry in science and technology policy, environmental security, economics, education, and space. He has addressed or keynoted conferences for over 300 government departments, universities, NGOs, UN organizations, and created CARINET in 1983 as the leading computer network in the developing world. He has been an independent consultant for the World Bank, UNDP, UNESCO, UNEP, and several corporations. He has published over 100 future-oriented articles.