Roanne Dods has been Director of the Jerwood Charitable Foundation for ten years. She qualified as a lawyer and in 1997 left the legal profession to undertake an MA in Dance Studies at Laban Centre London. At the Laban Centre she was part of the team that successfully secured Lottery funding for the new Laban Centre's award winning building in Deptford. At the Jerwood Charitable Foundation she has overseen the significant expansion of Jerwood activities across all artforms. In 2004, Jerwood was presented with an Angel Award by the International Society for the Performing Arts for 'innovative and spectacular work across the artistic spectrum' by Sir John Tusa. She is founding director of Mission Models Money (with Clare Cooper), The Work Room (for independent choreographers in Glasgow), IC: Innovative Craft, and Rose Orange, and on the boards of Scottish Ballet, Sistema Scotland and Jerwood Space. She is a Fuel Catalyst and member of the Cheltenham Jazz Festival Advisory Board.

Patrick Heneghan has provided strategic support to a wide range of companies and organisations since setting up his own company in 1995, from major oil companies to independent record labels, from a business school in China to the World Health Organisation. Pat is a member of, and the facilitator of, the International Futures Forum. Pat specialises in facilitating at the senior executive level, often in high risk situations. He has a particular interest in using creative approaches to difficult problems. Pat has lived in a number of overseas locations and continues to work in different locations around the world. His first degree is in Mechanical Engineering and he has a Masters degree in Petroleum Engineering. He held a number of positions in the exploration division of a major oil company from 1975 to 1995 including Drilling Operations, Training, Change Management and Strategy and Planning. He is married with two grown-up children, lives in Aberdour and has a 28ft cruising yacht and a dog.

Anthony Hodgson is the founder of Decision Integrity Limited, a company pioneering ways to facilitate better decisions through the application of holistic thinking, systems mapping, integrative group processes and sustainable values. His career long consulting experience spans public, private and voluntary sectors in the UK and farther afield, from Statoil Hydro to the National Health Service. A graduate of the Royal College of Science, Imperial College, London, Tony has taught on the Executive MBA at The London Business School on Visual Thinking and Team Learning and on an elective programme, "The Art and Science of the Long View". He helped facilitate the foundation of SOL International (the Society for Organisational Learning). He is a founder member of the International Futures Forum and a contributing member of the Oxford Futures Forum. Tony has published papers on various aspects of educational technology, systems thinking and facilitation and co-authored a books on Scenario Thinking. His special interest in IFF is the development of the IFF World Model and World Game.

Graham Leicester is Director of the International Futures Forum. Graham previously ran Scotland's leading think tank, the Scottish Council Foundation, founded in 1997. From 1984-1995 he served as a diplomat in HM Diplomatic Service, specialising in China (he speaks Mandarin Chinese) and the EU. Between 1995 and 1997 he was senior research fellow with the Constitution Unit at University College London. He has also worked as a freelance professional cellist, including with the BBC Concert Orchestra. He has a strong interest in governance, innovation and education, is a senior adviser to the British Council on those issues, and has previously worked with OECD, the World Bank Institute and other agencies on the themes of governance in a knowledge society and the governance of the long term.

Andrew Lyon was born in Kilmarnock in 1954. He studied Sociology and economics at Edinburgh University. After completing his PhD, he led a workplace based community oriented health programme at Polaroid UK Ltd, before moving to Glasgow to lead the Healthy Cities Programme there. During this time he also worked for the World Health Organisation in Bangladesh and Europe. In 1996 he moved to Forward Scotland to develop a Scottish approach to sustainable development, becoming acting chief executive in 2000. He is now a converger with International Futures Forum. He has also been engaged in voluntary activity for most of his adult life and currently serves on the boards of several charities.

Harry MacMillan was born and educated in Ayrshire, Scotland, and spent the early part of his career in journalism before moving into corporate communications and public affairs consultancy, where he has held various senior management positions. Much of his career has been spent in the international oil and gas industry, initially with Amoco Corporation in both London and the Chicago head office where he had an international role advising Amoco subsidiaries in Africa, the Middle East, Latin America, Russia and China. Following the Amoco-BP merger in 1998 he was appointed vice president for corporate affairs in Scotland covering the company's Scottish based activities in oil and gas exploration and production; refining and petroleum marketing; and petrochemicals. In this latter role he was closely involved with BP's founding sponsorship of the International Futures Forum. Since retiring from BP in 2005 he has continued his close interest in the development of the IFF.

Wolfgang Michalski is Managing Director of WM International - a company providing strategic intelligence and policy advice to business, governments and international organisations. He is an internationally recognized expert in the analysis of longer-term economic, social and technological developments and their implications for decision making. For more than 20 years (1980-2001), Wolfgang Michalski served as Chief Advisor to the Secretary-General of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), with particular responsibility for the analysis and evaluation of emerging economic and social policy issues and related strategic challenges, both at domestic and international level. Wolfgang Michalski has been a Director of several renowned research institutes. He received his PhD in 1964, holds a professorship of economics at the University of Hamburg since 1972 and was awarded a Doctor honoris causa by the Warsaw School of Economics in 2001. He has published 10 books and more than 120 papers which have been translated into more than ten languages.

Jennifer Williams is an American artist based in London, UK where, in 1977, she founded the Centre for Creative Communities (CCC) and currently serves as its executive director. Additional to the CCC work, Jennifer works as a freelance artist and as a specialist in social change processes. Jennifer's interest in IFF is in collaborative projects that link learning with creative practice, social inclusion and community development. Besides maintaining an active schedule of public speaking and writing for journals, in recent years she has developed a specialist role as artist-in-residence at conferences, courses and extended processes such as Glasgow's Civic Conversation. Jennifer has written books on topics including cultural exchange, the arts and urban regeneration and cross sector collaboration. Jennifer's artwork, mainly visual, ranges from hand made books, cutouts, photography, illustration and printmaking to the making of masks. Prior to moving to the UK, Jennifer ran a touring puppet theatre known as Williams Toy Theatre, which was awarded a number of distinctions from the international puppet community.