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Jerome Clayton Glenn, Futurist

Jerome Clayton Glenn, Futurist CEO, The Millennium Project

Jerome Clayton Glenn, Futurist

Jerome Clayton Glenn, the member of ACE Global Leaders of Excellence Network of ACE Health Foundation, is co-founder and CEO of The Millennium Project, a leading global participatory think tank with over 70 Nodes around the world, and three regional networks which produce the State of the Future reports for over 25 years. 

Glenn was contracted by the EC to write Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) paper as input to their Horizon program 2025-2027, is a Voting Member of the IEEE SA organizational governance of AI working group P2863, and conducted the international assessment of five foresight elements of the UN Secretary-General’s Our Common Agenda, the American Red Cross Covid-19 Scenarios, and Work/Technology 2050: Scenarios and Actions. He is currently leading the international study on the governance of the transition from artificial narrow intelligence to AGI and the next State of the Future 20.0 report. 

Glenn has managed over 70 futures research projects, lead author for 19 State of the Future reports, and co-editor for Futures Research Methodology 1.0 to 3.0 He invented the Futures Wheel, Synergy Matrix, and concepts such as conscious-technology, Trans Institutions, tele-nations, management by understanding, self-actualization economy, feminine brain drain, and definitions of environmental security and collective Intelligence. He wrote about information warfare in the late 1980s in his book Future Mind, sent his first email in 1973, and in the mid-1980s he was instrumental in getting x.25 packet switching in 29 developing countries which was key to low-cost access to the Internet. 

Glenn was instrumental in naming the first Space Shuttle the Enterprise and banning the first space weapon (FOBS) in SALT II. He has published over 350 future-oriented articles, spoken to over 1,000 organizations, and wrote Future Mind: Artificial Intelligence, Linking the Future, and co-author of Space Trek: The Endless Migration.

Glenn shares the 2022 Lifeboat Guardian Award with Volodymyr Zelenskyy, received the Donella Meadows Metal, Kondratieff Metal, Emerald Citation of Excellence, honorary professorship from Universidad Miguel de Cervantes, and honorary doctor’s degrees from Universidad Ricardo Palma and Universidad Franz Tamayo, and is a leading boomerang stunt man.