MSM Senior Consultant, Dr. Julius Gatune to renew UNESCO Futures Chair for East Africa region
UNESCO has over 830 chairs with the aim to develop intern-university cooperation, collaboration and information sharing to address pressing challenges and contribute to the development of societies. The Futures Literacy chairs of which there currently are 21 are premised on the belief that humanity requires a better understanding of why and how we imagine the future. This community of UNESCO Chairs is dedicated to exploring the origins and roles of the images of the future that inspire hope and fear. The chairs also explore pressing human challenges to understand the drivers and opportunities thereof and also identify levers that can help shape better futures. The Chairs are also advancing the theory and practice of using-the-future by conducting analytical and theoretical research that is producing evidence of the diversity of humanity’s anticipatory systems and processes.
Futures Literacy Chair
Dr. Gatune works as a Senior Project Consultant at Maastricht School of Management (MSM) and is a futurist, policy researcher and advisor with a focus on the 4th industrial revolution, economic transformation and innovation platforms development. For years already he has been involved in futures research through which he became part of the Future Research Community. In recognition of his contribution to research, UNESCO renewed Dr. Gatune Kariuki’s chair for the Eastern Africa region. The chair is housed at Dedan Kimathi University of Technology where Dr. Gatune Kariuki is a visiting an Associate Professor in Anticipatory Socio-Technical Systems, and co-hosted by MSM under the lead of Dr. Diederik de Boer.
Under the renewed and jointly hosted chair, the focus will include building strategic foresight capabilities and supporting emerging economies (and especially African economies) navigate the Twin Transition of digitalisation and the green economy. Another key objective is to explore how Europe can redesign its relationship with emerging economies to create balanced, mutually beneficial outcomes in a changing global landscape.
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