Timothy C. Mack

Since 1985, Tim Mack has edited the oldest and best respected professional journal in the foresight area, Futures Research Quarterly. In June of 2004, he assumed the Presidency of the World Future Society, which has been the leading organization in the futures field for 40 years.

Like the field of foresight, Mr. Mack’s background is broad and eclectic. He has been an attorney and member of the New York and District of Columbia bars since the 1970s and has served as General Counsel for a number of non-profit groups involved in trend analysis, social dynamics and public policy. After holding research positions at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and the National Academy of Sciences, Tim Mack joined the Budget Policy Task Force at the US General Accounting Office, which serves as the analytical arm of the US Congress.

He combines legislative policy analysis with experience over the past decade as a consultant and lobbyist for corporations, associations and governmental groups struggling with cultural, technological and market issues worldwide. Mack has published a large number of articles on trend analysis, and worked with a series of high technology start-up companies which had developed solutions for pressing market-oriented problems. He also served on the Board of the MIT Enterprise Forum, a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based non-profit offering marketing, financial and technology services to new and innovative companies.

As a change consultant, Tim Mack assisted the US General Services Agency and the US Dept of Defense in developing strategic planning and change management strategies for such challenges as innovation enhancement, privatization of public services, superfund clean up and transportation planning. In addition, he has managed global trade issues and technology trends at the local, state, federal, and global level, working with clients on each continent, including the Institute for Global Chinese Affairs (ranked Number One globally three years running by the Foreign Experts Bureau in Bejing). He also spent five years as a Vice President at WPP Ltd., which at the time was the largest management consulting and market communications company in the world.

This wide-ranging experience has provided extensive subject area background in areas ranging from new digital communities to financial services to energy technologies to media trends. Mr. Mack has testified as an expert witness before the White House Conference on Small Business and is presently completing a book on the social and economic impacts of the Internet on modern society and the global economy.

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