Dr. Hazel Henderson

is an independent futurist and lecturer, the author of five books, a worldwide syndicated columnist, and a consultant on sustainable development. Her editorials appear in 27 languages and more than 400 newspapers syndicated by InterPress Service, Rome, New York, and Washington DC.

Her articles have appeared in over 250 journals, including (in USA) Harvard Business Review, New York Times, Christian Science Monitor, and Challenge, Mainichi (Japan), El Diario (Venezuela), World Economic Herald(China), and Australian Financial Review. Her books are translated into German, Spanish, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Korean, Portuguese, and Chinese.

She sits on several editorial boards, including Futures Research Quarterly, World Business Academy Perspectives, The State of the Future Report, and E/The Environmental Magazine (USA), Resurgence and Futures (UK), and WorldPaper (a Boston-based monthly insert in 25 major newspapers in Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America). She is a Fellow of the World Business Academy and serves on the Global Commission to Fund the United Nations. She also serves on the boards of Worldwatch Institute, World Futures Studies Federation (Australia and Philippines), Calvert Social Investment Fund, Cousteau Society, Council on Economic Priorities, The New Economics Foundation (London, UK), and WETV (Ottawa, Canada). The first version of her Country Futures Indicators (CFI©), an alternative to the Gross National Product (GNP), is a co-venture with Calvert Group, Inc.: the Calvert-Henderson Quality-of-Life Indicatorssm.

In addition, she has been Regent's Lecturer at the University of California (Santa Barbara), held the Horace Albright Chair in Conservation at the University of California (Berkeley), and advised the U.S. Office of Technology Assessment and the National Science Foundation from 1974 to 1980. She is an active member of the National Press Club (Washington DC), the Social Venture Network, and the World Futures Society (USA). Henderson also shared the 1996 Global Citizen Award with Nobelist A. Perez Esquivel of Argentina.

http://www.hazelhenderson.com