Scott Smith is founder and managing partner of Changeist, a futures research and consulting partnership established in 2007 in the United States, now based in Barcelona. Having worked for more than 15 years in futures, Smith has consulted to a range of global institutions, including SWIFT, UNICEF, The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, The Royal Society, Nesta, and the Dubai Future Foundation. He has also led engagements with some of the largest and most respected global financial, retail, telecoms, technology, and media brands, such as the BBC, The New York Times, ASOS, AXA, VF, and Comcast. He has designed and delivered futures projects, talks, and workshops in over a dozen countries and facilitated projects and workshops in multiple languages. Smith helped create and lead the Strategic Foresight program for Dubai Future Academy and lectures in the Innovation & Future Thinking program at IED Barcelona, a course he designed. He was also recently named to the Executive Board of the Center for Futures Studies at the University of Dubai. He has more than 25 years of experience in forecasting and has lived in four countries over that time. He is also the author of “How to Future: Leading and Sense-making in an Age of Hyperchange.”
