Erik F. Øverland, PhD, Norway
Erik works on multiple foresight projects in Norway, and across Europe. He has a PhD in Futures Studies from the Free University of Berlin. Erik is a Co-Editor-in-Chief for the European Journal for Futures Research.
Leadership
The WFSF Executive Board consists of twelve members: the President who is elected for a four-year term and oversees the organization; the Vice-President, Latin America region, the Director who is appointed by the Executive Board and manages the Secretariat; and nine Executive Board members elected for a four-year term. The current Executive Board consists of the following individuals.
Director
Victor V. Motti, USA
Victor V. Motti is a multilingual international executive, engineer, business development director, and communication director with more than 20 years of experience in the think tank industry serving non-profit associations, for-profit corporations and public sectors clients worldwide.
Vice-President – Latin America
Guillermina Baena Paz, PhD, Mexico
Elected to the Executive Board in 2009, appointed in 2013 as Vice – President Latin American Region, and re-elected in 2017 for a second four-year term. Guillermina is a WFSF Regional Vice-President. She is a Professor at the National Autonomous University in Mexico.
USA
Claire Nelson, PhD, USA
Dr. Claire Nelson is Chief Ideation Leader of The Futures Forum, a research and education practice specializing in bringing the power of strategic foresight, and the discipline of sustainability engineering to challenges facing organizations and communities. She was recently named on Forbes as one of the top 50 female futurists in the world.
Finland
Jaana Tapanainen-Thiess, Finland
She is the Secretary General of the Government Report on the Future, Government Foresight Group and Ministerial Foresight Panel in the Prime Minister’s Office of Finland.
Brazil
Rosa Alegria, Brazil
A professional futurist for 20 years and a pioneer in strategic foresight in Brazil, Rosa has a systemic vision of what innovation is. Futures research & planning consultant, international speaker, she is among the most recognized futurist women in Latin America
Australia
Luke van der Laan, PhD, Australia
Luke is an influential and internationally recognised leadership and strategy thinkers. He has worked with leading companies and large public entities across the Asia Pacific region. Van der Laan is a doctoral research Programme Director at the University of Southern Queensland.
Netherlands
Helga Veigl, Netherlands
Helga is a practicing futurist at The Futures Lab, Inc., member of the Scientific Committee for WFSF, and of Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University (KSA) for the Futures Research Grants. She is from Hungary, currently living in Rijeka, Croatia and is a resident in UAE.
USA
Thomas Lombardo, PhD, USA
Thomas Lombardo, Ph.D. is the Executive Director of the Center for Future Consciousness, the Director of The Wisdom Page, the Managing Editor of the online journal Wisdom and the Future, and Professor Emeritus and retired Faculty Chair of Psychology, Philosophy, and the Future at Rio Salado College in Tempe, Arizona.
Mexico
Alethia Montero Baena , Mexico
Past Director of World Future Society, Mexican Chapter, A.C.® , Director of Teach the Future Mexico and member of the Executive Board and Core Team of Teach the Future Global. Co-creator of the Psychoprospective or Psychology of Anticipation and Generator of Teatro del Devenir (Forward Theater Experience Creator).
Colombia
Lucio Mauricio Henao Velez, Colombia
Professional in Industrial Economics, postgraduate in Organizational foresight and supplementary studies in foresight, planning, development and management of innovation, active listening from the Sonidosofía / Intulisten. Planning skills, business valuation, project formulation and evaluation, foresight, scenarios and future studies conformed in more than 3 decades of experience and academy.
Argentina
Javier Alejandro Vitale Gutierrez, Argentina
Elected to the Executive Board in 2017 for four-years term. Javier is a researcher at the National Institute of Agricultural Technology (Argentina) and Co-Director of the Center for Prospective Studies at the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences at the Universidad Nacional de Cuyo (Mendoza, Argentina).
Core Support Team: Financial Administrator
Evelyne Koenig, France
Evelyne has been the Accountant for WFSF since 2009. She has overall responsibility for handling and recording the income and expenditure of the Federation. Evelyne is a professional Accountant who has run her own business since 2001 after working in several large companies in Strasbourg, Antibes, Biarritz and Kingersheim. Evelyne lives in the Alsace region of France with her family.