Forum for the Future


Forum for the Future is an international sustainability organisation that works in partnership with business, government and civil society to try to accelerate change toward a just and regenerative future. It works by catalysing change in key global systems. It has an annual turnover of around £5.2 million and employs 66 staff. The current CEO is Hannah Pathak, Executive Director and Chief Acceleration Officer is Sally Uren OBE and the offices are based in the United Kingdom, United States, India and Singapore.
It runs partnerships with more than 100 organisations across business and the public sector to incorporate the principles of sustainable development.
From 1996 to 2016 the organisation ran a Masters course, 'Masters in Leadership for Sustainable Development'. This was run in partnership with the University of Middlesex and the Leadership Trust. Forum set up the, a learning provider with offerings for mid-career professionals to learn how to become systems change-makers.
Forum for the Future was founded in 1996, by Paul Ekins, Sara Parkin and Jonathon Porritt. Its earliest members from 1996 to 1999 included Sir David Putnam, Richard Branson, Richard Rogers, John Selwyn Gummer, Dr Elaine Storkey, and Douglas Adams.

Publications

From 2023 onwards: , by Forum for the Future 2022 ', by Forum for the Future, in partnership with the Oxford Farming Conference, Savills and WWF, commissioned by Oxford Farming Conference 2023 , by Forum for the Future 2023
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Forum also has an annual campaign for the Future of Sustainability, by the Futures Centre. Its publications include: '
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