Jerome Clayton Glenn

Interview

• "The Millennium Project: a global research project " (Chicago, 21/07/1998)

Biography

Jerome Clayton Glenn studied philosophy at The American University and then took an MA in Teaching Social Science - Futuristics at the Antioch Graduate School.

He is currently Executive Director, American Council/United Nations University; Co-ordinator, AC/UNU/Millennium Project on Global Futures Research.

He has 25 years of Futures Research experience in the United States, working for government, international organizations, and private industry in Science & Technology Policy, Economics, Education, Defense, Space, Forecasting Methodology, International Telecommunications, and Decision Support Systems with the Committee for the Future, Hudson Institute, and his own firm, the Future Options Room.

He has also been Deputy Director of Partnership for Productivity International involved in national strategic planning, institutional design, training, and evaluation in economic development in Africa, the Middle East, Asia, the Caribbean, and Latin America. He founded CARINET computer network in 1983 (now owned by CGNET) and personally introduced data packet switching in 12 developing countries. He has been an independent consultant for USAID contractors, World Bank, and Futurist consultant UNDP, UNU, UNESCO, US/EPA, Gov. of Canada., and USAID.

He invented the "Futures Wheel" forecasting technique and Futuristic Curriculum Development and was instrumental in the SALT II section that banned first space weapon (Soviet FOBS). Saturday Review named him among the most unusually gifted leaders of America for his pioneering work in Tropical Medicine, Future-Oriented Education, and Participatory Decision Making Systems in 1974.