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The APF Board consists of twelve members who are recommended by the general membership and brought forward by the Nominations Committee for final voting by the board. The Board is a working board that oversees governance and operations of APF, which remains an all-volunteer organization. The Board is governed by the APF bylaws to fulfill the mission of the organization. 

The Nominations Committee makes a deliberate effort to ensure representation on the Board that reflects the membership’s global diversity and specific needs for governance and operations. The Committee is chaired by Dr. Cindy Frewen and consists of volunteer APF members and follows the APF's Nominating Principles.

ABOUT
THE BOARD

APF EXECUTIVE BOARD

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Shermon Cruz

Philippines

APF Chair

Shermon leads APF and directs the Center for Engaged Foresight, a futures innovation and social foresight hub in the Philippines and the Asia Pacific.

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Tanja Schindler

Germany

APF Vice-Chair

Tanja is an international award-winning futurist with experience in foresight, innovation, and strategy. In 2019 she founded futures-space.com.

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APF Treasurer

Laura is a foresight and innovation consultant, speaker and lecturer. Laura uses her unique combination of interests and experiences to include intimacy, vulnerability, mental health and emotional intelligence in her foresight work.

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Modafar Akhoirshieda

United Abrab Emirates

APF Board Member

Modafar is founder of EMKAN Futures, host of EMKAN Podcast, and foresight and Innovation management advisor who works towards foresight localization in the MENA region.

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Stephen Dupont

United States

APF Board Member

Stephen is an accredited communications consultant, writer and speaker who combines foresight and communications to help organizations develop and implement strategies to obtain their desired vision. He edits Compass magazine. 

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Zan Chandler

Canada

APF Board Member

Zan is a foresight practitioner and educator. She is passionate about bringing the power of futures thinking to new audiences and creating space for inclusive futures to thrive.

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Miguel Jiménez

Spain

APF Board Member

Miguel is the CEO & Founder of FFWD, a foresight consultancy firm, and the organizer of the Global Foresight Summit. He has a diverse background and helps businesses and governments worldwide anticipate the futures.

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Maggie Greyson

Canada

APF Board Member

Maggie Greyson MDes co-founded Futures Present to help people discover surprising opportunities and unintended consequences through the practices of design and futuring. Her first profession was a decade in the theatre as a designer in the US, UK, and Canada on stages, including the Shakespeare’s International Globe in London.

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Mauricio Hernandez

Mexico

APF Board Member

Mauricio is the founder of the “Universidad del Futuro®,” an on-line school based in Mexico, offering futures & foresight courses, conferences, workshops and interviews in Spanish, aimed to expand futures literacy in the Latin America and the Caribbean region.

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Maya van Leemput

Belgium

APF Board Member

As a Senior Lecturer at Erasmus University, Maya combines futures research into images and with a creative multi-media consultancy. 

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Patricia Lustig

United Kingdom

APF Board Member

Patricia is a foresight, strategy and change consultant and author, with a background in senior positions at major blue-chip companies such as BP, Motorola and Logica.

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Steve Tighe

Australia

APF Board Member

APF Board Documents

Members who are logged in may find the APF Board's Minutes in the Download Area.

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This group represents fourteen board members, three board chairs, multiple committee chairs, and four Most Significant Futures Works authors. Many were not only founders of the APF but also created initiatives. Much appreciation is due to this group, who had the foresight and leadership to begin a new organization for professional futurists. Thanks to each of you!

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Two other members should be remembered, now deceased. Joe Coates was a founder and pillar of the professional futures community for decades. Ken Harris started the Most Significant Futures Works program, ran it until 2014, and is fondly remembered by all.

APF
Founding Members

ANDY HINES
DEREK WOODGATE
JAY FORREST
JIM MATHEWS
KATE DELANEY
MICHAEL MCALLUM
PERO MICIC
RANDY SCHEEL
VERNE WHEELWRIGHT
CHRISTIAN CREWS
DOMINIQUE PURCELL JAUROLA
JAY GARY
JOHN MAHAFFIE
LEE SHUPP
MICHELE BOWMAN
PETER BISHOP
STEPHEN MILLETT
DAVID SHANNON
HERB RUBENSTEIN
JENNIFER JARRATT
JOYCE GIOIA
MARY JANE NAQUIN
MIKE DE BETTENCOURT
PETER PADBURY
TERRY GRIM

Past APF
Board Members

The first APF board was constituted in 2002 and consisted of nine members: Peter Bishop, Michele Bowman, Sandy Burchsted, Tom Conger, Mike de Bettencourt, Bob Hahn, Andy Hines, Jennifer Jarratt, and Herb Rubenstein. Randy Scheel served as the Executive Director, a role later assumed by Andy Hines.

Andrew Curry
Bob Hahn
Catherine Cosgrove
Claudia Juech
Herb Rubenstein
Jennifer Jarratt (Chair)
Joan Foltz
Josh Lindenger
Marcus Barber
Michele Bowman (Chair)
Nick Price
Prateeksha Singh
Riel Miller
Rowena Morrow
Stephen Aguilar-Millan
Tom Conger
Yoonsik Choi
Andy Hines (Chair)
Bridgette Engeler
Christian Crews
Derek Woodgate
Jason Swanson
Jim Breaux
Joe Tankersley
Joyce Gioia
Maree Conway
Mike de Bettencourt
Peter Bishop
Randy Moss
Rob Hanson
Sandy Burchsted
Tanja Hichert
Wayne Pethrick
Ann Feeney (Chair)
Byan Alexander
Cindy Frewen (Chair)
Garry Golden
Jay Gary (Chair)
Jim Mathews
John Mahaffie (Chair)
Lee Shupp
Marius Oosthuizen
Natalie Ambrose
Peter Hayward
Richard Yonck
Roumiana Gotseva
Stacey Aldrich
Terry Grim
Wendy Schulz
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