^[1]Mr. Jérôme Bindé, France

Deputy Assistant Director-General for Social and Human Sciences and Director of the Office of Foresight at UNESCO ( RET.), Member of the Academy of  Latinity, Member of the Special Committee of the World Academy of Art and Science

A writer and a futurist, Jérôme Bindé is Member of the Club of Rome, Member of the Special Committee and Fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science, Founding Member of the Académie de la latinité, Administrator of Prospective 2100 and former Deputy Assistant Director-General of UNESCO.

A graduate of the Ecole Normale Supérieure and Agrégé de l’Université ( France), he was Senior Lecturer of history of ideas at the Ecole Polytechnique ( France ), Fellow of the Académie de France à Rome ( Villa Medici) and a journalist at several leading French newspapers.

At UNESCO, which he joined in 1984, he served in particular as Deputy Assistant Director-General for Social and Human Sciences, Director of the Office of Foresight, Director of the Division of Foresight, Philosophy and Human Sciences, Director of the Division of Anticipation and Prospective Studies, Director of the Analysis and Forecasting Office, Executive Secretary of the World Commission on Culture and Development ( WCCD ), ex-officio member and Director of WCCD, and Secretary-General of the Council on the Future. He retired from UNESCO in 2010.

He set up the foresight program of UNESCO to look ahead to future global trends or scenarios and headed it for fourteen years. Coordinator of the “21st Century Talks” and the “21st Century Dialogues”, he is the editor and co-author of the three anthologies based on these scientific talks : Keys to the 21st Century, The Future of Values, and Making Peace with the Earth. Director of the UNESCO World Report Towards Knowledge Societies, he is also the principal co-author, with Federico Mayor, of the world, forward-looking book report The World Ahead : Our Future in the Making, dealing with twenty global issues ( in French : Un monde nouveau ). The five books have been published in fifteen languages.

He is also the co-author of numerous books, such as Globalization ( Duke University Press ), Jean Baudrillard, Nos embarras de mémoire or Ethics of the Future.

He is member of the editorial board of Foresight and has also contributed to numerous TV and radio programs and to op/ed pages of about one hundred leading newspapers from the different regions of the world.