Benjamin Butler

Benjamin J Butler is an Asia-based Futurist, passionate about guiding and coaching people in to the uncertain future. He left London 20 years ago and has been ‘on the road ever since,’ accumulating a unique international perspective to advise leaders on where the world might be heading, known for making many prescient forecasts of trends in financial markets, technology, geopolitics and culture. He sits on a number of boards as a future-thinker: he is a member of the Global Future Council on Quantum Computing at the World Economic Forum, Futurist-In-Residence at Futur/io, the European Institute of Exponential Technologies & Desirable Futures, and is a futurist with the UN’s Resilience Frontiers initiative. In 2019 he launched a new unconference series called Future Explorers.

In addition to being a well-known forecaster, Benjamin coaches clients on the important skills and mindset for the future: from creativity and imagination to crystallising purpose and passion.

Previously he worked at various investment banks, hedge funds, ran a private venture fund, and also wrote the International Column at Dow Theory Letters with Wall Street legend Richard Russell who started it in 1958.

“We are at an important evolutionary turning point in the history of our species. More than just a technological Singularity, we need a shift in perspective, and we need to harness the power of the human imagination.”