Copernicus Radio Interview
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Background
Timothy C. Mack has edited the oldest and best respected professional journal in the foresight area, Futures Research Quarterly since 1985. In June of 2004, he also assumed the Presidency of the World Future Society, which has been the leading organization in the futures field for well over 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 profit and 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 US 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 experience in legislative policy analysis with well over a decade’s work as a consultant and lobbyist for corporations, associations and governmental groups struggling with cultural, technological and market issues worldwide. Mack has published a significant number of books and 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 group 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 Department 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 many continents, including the Institute for Global Chinese Affairs (ranked Number One globally three years running by the Foreign Experts Bureau in Beijing). 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 working on a book on the social and economic impacts of the Internet on modern society and the global economy.
The World Future Society is a nonprofit, nonpartisan scientific and educational association of people interested in how social and technological developments are shaping the future. The Society was founded in 1966 and is chartered as a nonprofit educational and scientific organization in Washington, D.C., U.S.A. In this episode, Copernicus Radio talks with Tim Mack, president of the WFS.
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 profit and 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 US 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 experience in legislative policy analysis with well over a decade’s work as a consultant and lobbyist for corporations, associations and governmental groups struggling with cultural, technological and market issues worldwide. Mack has published a significant number of books and 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 group 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 Department 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 many continents, including the Institute for Global Chinese Affairs (ranked Number One globally three years running by the Foreign Experts Bureau in Beijing). 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 working on a book on the social and economic impacts of the Internet on modern society and the global economy.
The World Future Society is a nonprofit, nonpartisan scientific and educational association of people interested in how social and technological developments are shaping the future. The Society was founded in 1966 and is chartered as a nonprofit educational and scientific organization in Washington, D.C., U.S.A. In this episode, Copernicus Radio talks with Tim Mack, president of the WFS.
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