Deputy Director — Millennium Project
Ibon Zugasti, M.S. is Partner/Director at PROSPEKTIKER, International Project Manager at LKS (Consulting Division of MONDRAGON Corporation), Member of the Board of Directors of the Millennium Project and Node Chairman in Spain, Deputy Director of the Foresight Iberoamerican Network (RIBER), and Associate Fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science.
Since 1999, Ibon has led several consultancy and research projects in fields like foresight, regional sustainable development, labor & training and energy for different Governments worldwide (USA, UK, Colombia, Uruguay, South Korea…) and Corporations (Repsol, Telefonica, Iberdrola, Guggenheim, MONDRAGON…).
He has also advised the Committee of the Regions of the EU for the launching of a European Platform on Territorial Foresight. Since 2010, he has been the Chairman of the Millennium Project in Spain, President of the European Regional Foresight College and Vice-President of Foresight Europe Network.
He is coauthor of different publications such as as Foresight of the 21st Century, Latin America 2030: Delphi Survey and Scenarios (The Millennium Project), An initial assessment of territorial forward planning/foresight projects in the European Union (Committee of the Regions of the EU), and the aging Basque population. Economic and social consequences (Basque Government). He also contributes to the yearly publication State of the Future by the Millennium Project.
Ibon earned his Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration from the University of Deusto, Spain and earned his Master’s in Strategic Management from Marquette University, Milwaukee, USA. He has been teaching strategic management and foresight at many Universities and seminars at the international level (Oxford University, TEC Monterrey, Singularity University…).