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- Peter Wake Ellyard (born 13 April 1937 in New South Wales, Australia) is a futurist, strategist, speaker and author living in Melbourne, Australia. He is known for his unique perspectives on, and as a speaker about, global trends and emerging global markets, and for his concepts and tools that enable individuals, organisations, communities and nations to become more effective shapers of their futures. Ellyard is currently chairman of the Preferred Futures institute and the Preferred Futures Group, which he founded in 1991. He also chairs the Sustainable Prosperity Foundation and two startup environmental companies. Ellyard is a former executive director for the Australian Commission for the Future. He held CEO positions in a number of public sector organizations over 15 years, including two associated with environment and planning, and one with industry and technology, and was also chief of staff of an Environment Minister in Canberra for 3 years. He is adjunct professor of intergenerational strategies at the University of Queensland (formerly at Curtin University), and is an elected fellow of the Australian College of Educators, the Environment Institute of Australia and New Zealand, and the Australian Institute of Management. He is an elected member of the Union of International Associations, based in Brussels. Besides being a senior consultant to Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development for 20 years, Ellyard has been a senior adviser to the United Nations for more than 30 years, including to the 1992 Earth Summit, where he was a senior advisor (the only Australian) on both the climate change and the biodiversity conventions. He also advised a number of International conferences, including the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment (1971), The UN Conference on Human Settlements (1976). At other times he has been a senior consultant to the UNEP, UNDP and UNESCO. (en)
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- Peter Wake Ellyard (born 13 April 1937 in New South Wales, Australia) is a futurist, strategist, speaker and author living in Melbourne, Australia. He is known for his unique perspectives on, and as a speaker about, global trends and emerging global markets, and for his concepts and tools that enable individuals, organisations, communities and nations to become more effective shapers of their futures. (en)
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