Alex Steffen

Alex Steffen is an award-winning writer, speaker and foresight consultant. Alex is a prolific writer and public thinker, having written thousands of pieces, been profiled in numerous media interviews and given hundreds of talks to audiences around the world. Over the last ten years he has also advised some of the world’s most forward-looking institutions, investors, philanthropists and NGOs. In 2013-2014, he was Planetary Futurist in Residence at the design and innovation firm IDEO.

His 2012 book Carbon Zero: Imagining cities that can save the planet is an exploration of the kinds of design, technological and policy innovations that can transform our cities into low-carbon engines of prosperity. From 2003 – 2010, he ran the pioneering sustainability and social innovation project Worldchanging.com, and edited two best-selling Worldchanging books. Before that, he worked for almost a decade in newspapers and radio, covering planetary change on four continents.

Read more about Alex and his work at http://www.alexsteffen.com.