Research & Production — Andthen
Core team
Santini Basra
Director
Lewis Just
Partner
Sarah Owen
Futures Associate
Robin Torres-Gouzerh
Futures Associate
Akash Das
Futures Associate
Commissioner — Defra Futures
Client team
Phil Tovey
Head of Futures
Dr. Victoria Robinson
Principal Futures & Foresight Practitioner
Emma Mutch
Futures & Foresight Project Officer
Expert Contributors
Challenge Session participants
Each Global Megatrend was scrutinised by five to six subject matter experts in structured one-hour Challenge Sessions. Participants reviewed the GMT in advance, then provided critical feedback to validate, challenge and strengthen the evidence base.
Alexander HudsonInternational IDEA
Joachim IsacssonMOD DCDC
Mélissa LevaillantSELDON Conseil
Cassidy NelsonCentre for Long-Term Resilience
Matt PritchardUniversity of Reading
Ben WodenDefra
Seth BaumGCR Institute
Katy PeatDefra
Pete FalloonMet Office
James BalzerMacquarie University
Timothy OsbornUniversity of East Anglia
Karen BarrassClimate Insights
Laura Melissa WilliamsDesign Council
Michelle HarrisonUNEP-WCMC
Evan Bowen JonesKent Wildlife
Stephanie HankeyDesign Council
Nick MacInnesDefra
Alistair HogbenDefra
Fabian Wallace-StephensIndependent
Luca BarberiCopenhagen Institute for Futures Studies
Karen MayorDHSC
Dominic AbramsUniversity of Kent
Yasmin KamelIndependent
Julia LeiningerGerman Institute of Development and Sustainability
Miriam Juan TorresUC Berkeley
Vincent GoodstadtDesign Council
Michael MogensenJohns Hopkins Bloomberg Centre for Public Innovation
Luca BarberiCopenhagen Institute for Futures Studies
Poppy GrovesGO-Science
Niki TsoutsouraGO-Science
Anna WilliamsIndependent
Alex TaskerUniversity of Bristol
Jack SelfJournalist
Giles GolshettiSystems and Political Economy Analyst, Defra
Jordan McKayForum for the Future
Rajalakshmi BalasubramanianIndependent
Additional thanks
The following experts contributed to two GMTs that were removed from the final report after Challenge Sessions. Their insight was invaluable in shaping the final selection: Jennifer Gandhi (Yale), Seema Shah (IIDEA), Georgina Bourke (ICO), Alex Tasker (University of Bristol), Luke Robert Mason (Futurist), Nadia Piet (AIxDesign, Elisava).