Jerome Clayton Glenn Executive Director, co-founder and CEO of The Millennium Project (established in 1996), is a leader in global futures research. He is the Chairman of the High-Level Expert AGI Panel for the Council of Presidents of the United Nations General Assembly. Alongside Elizabeth Florescu and the Millennium Project Team, he is the lead author of the State of the Future 20.0 report and previous 19 State of the Future reports over the last twenty-eight years. He was the United Nations University (Tokyo) liaison to the USA and the USA liaison to UNU as executive director of the American Council for the UNU from 1988 to 2007.
Glenn was contracted by the European Commission to contribute the AGI paper for their Horizon 2025-2027 program and is a Member of the IEEE SA P2863 Organizational Governance of AI Working Group.
He has consulted for governments, international organizations, and the private sector in areas such as S&T policy, environmental security, economics, education, and futures research methodology. He has been a keynote speaker at over 500 events worldwide and published over 300 articles on the future.
Recently he led The Millennium Project’s research on artificial general intelligence AGI, UN foresight reforms, and work/technology 2050. He was the Deputy Director of Partnership for Productivity International, focusing on economic development for lower income countries and founded CARINET in 1983, a pioneer computer network for the developing world. He sent his first email in 1973.
Glenn is the inventor of the “Futures Wheel” futures technique, concepts like conscious-technology, self-actualization economy, famine brain drain, and tele-nations; and definitions for collective intelligence and environmental security. Saturday Review (1974) listed him among America’s most gifted young leaders for his contributions to tropical medicine (while a Peace Corps Volunteer), future-oriented education, and participatory decision-making systems. His was instrumental in banning FOBS in SALT II.
He is the author Future Mind, Linking the Future, co-author of Space Trek: the Endless Migration and author of the forth coming Global Governance of the Transition to Artificial General Intelligence. He is the co-editor of “Futures Research Methodology” series. Glenn holds a BA in philosophy from American University, an MA in Teaching Social Science—Futuristics from Antioch-Putney Graduate School of Education (now Antioch University New England), and ABD in futures research at the University of Massachusetts. He is a Fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science, Full Member of the Club of Rome, received the 2022 Lifeboat Foundation Guardian Award (shared with Volodymyr Zelenskyy), and is a leading international boomerang stuntman.