Prof. Richard Hames
Asian Foresight Institute, Thailand
Intellectual & Philosopher Activist,
Director, Asian Foresight Institute, Thailand
- An Australian citizen, educated in Europe and domiciled in Asia, Richard is considered to be among the world's most influential intellectuals and philosopher-activists
- Honoured with numerous awards including a French Government Scholarship, a Leverhulme European Fellowship, the Mondadori Professorial Fellowship and the inaugural Lord Attlee Fellowship
- Chairman of the Hames Group - a global think-tank and strategic design laboratory
- President of Wayfinder and an elected Fellow of the World Academy of Art & Science
- Works as a strategic adviser to governments and multinational corporations around the world, advising his clients on issues of concern to humanity as a whole
- Member of various advisory boards and a personal mentor to Heads of State, entrepreneurs and some of the world's most innovative CEOs
- Best known for pioneering Strategic Navigation - a radical approach to conscious evolution based on the fusion of systemic viability and collaborative co-design
- As a foresight practitioner, Richard has examined topics ranging from the future of conflict to microtechnology in everyday life, financial services, transport, urban development, work, terrorism, philanthropy, robotics, taxation, health care, social networks, political systems, energy, natural resource management and learning
- A compelling public speaker and celebrated writer, Richard is author of the best-selling book, The Management Myth: Exploring the Essence of Future Organizations. His second book, Burying the 20th Century - New Paths to New Futures, was published in 1997. Richard contributed a chapter entitled, Requiem for the Nation State in Reforming the Public Sector (ed. C. Clark and D. Corbett, Allen & Unwin, 1999) and was a key contributor to Rewiring Organizations for the Connected Economy (Jossey-Bass Pfeiffer, Los Angeles, 2002)
- The Five Literacies of Global Leadership (John Wiley & Son, London, 2007) was the result of ten years of research and argues a case for jettisoning many of today's leadership orthodoxies in order to liberate collective wisdom
- Open Heart - Open Mind and Heresies: Essays on the Future of Humanity both focus on the reinvention of society and its institutions
- As an entrepreneur and knowledge designer, Richard has focused on projects ranging across all sectors of the community, business and government, focusing particularly on rethinking a number of the key concepts underpinning 250 years of industrial economism
- An authority on the design of strategically relevant yet viable 'whole system' solutions for business and government in the knowledge society, Richard has built an enviable reputation with a range of clients spanning the globe and in all sectors of the economy