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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.