Event Date: March 23, 2017 - 4:00pm to 5:30pm
Location: FSS 4006, Pavillon des Sciences Sociales. 120, University Pvt.

Presented by CIPS 

Mathew Burrows serves as director of the Atlantic Council’s Strategic Foresight Initiative (SFI). SFI works with a broad range of partners, including the US government, other governments, businesses, NGOs, and foundations, on analysing trends and possible scenarios and their broad implications.  Burrows recently authored a report sponsored by Zurich Insurance Group on “Reducing the Risks from Rapid Demographic Change,” and a joint report with the Moscow-based Primakov Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) on the “Global System on the Brink: Pathways Toward a New Normal.” His most recent book is The Future Declassified: Megatrends that Will Undo the World Unless We Take Action (2014).

In August 2013, Burrows retired from a 28-year career in the CIA and State Department, the last ten spent at the National Intelligence Council (NIC), the premier analytic unit in the US Intelligence Community.  In 2007, he was appointed Counselor, which is the number three position in the NIC. He was the principal drafter for the NIC publication Global Trends 2030: Alternative Worlds, which received widespread praise in the international media. Other previous positions include special assistant to the US UN Ambassador Richard Holbrooke (1999-2001) and deputy national security advisor to US Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill (2001-2002). He received a BA in American and European history in 1976 from Wesleyan University and a PhD in European history from the University of Cambridge in 1983.