Tony Stevenson

Futurist

Post Office Box 188
Noosa Heads 4567 Australia
Phone: +61 7 5447 4394
Fax: +61 7 5448 0776
E-mail: tony.stevenson@WorldFutures.org  

Tony Stevenson is a futurist.

He researches how we think about the future. He writes, speaks and consults about the future, particularly the way human communication, and the emerging technologies, will change the way we live, care, learn and work in local-global communities.

He is president of the international nongovernment organisation, World Futures Studies Federation (WFSF), affiliated with UNESCO, representing futurists in 90 countries. He is a member of UNESCO's Council on the Future.

Until recently he was also director of the Communication Centre at the Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia, a research centre specialising in communication futures, and the role of communication in community and organisational change and development.

After a period in print, radio and television journalism, Tony journeyed towards futures studies as a consultant in organisational communication for strategic planning, doing graduate study at the University of Hawaii.

His work at the Communication Centre from 1990 until 1998 addressed both the nature of communication in the future and the way communication gives us meaning about the future. Publications include, with Sohail Inayatullah, a guest-coedited, special double issue on communication futures for the international journal, Futures, March/April 1998.

He has been an invited keynote speaker, seminar director and process facilitator on all continents. Recent consulting clients include UNESCO, Wet Tropics Management Authority, Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute, Queensland Open Learning Network and Telstra Corporation.

For WFSF, he has conceived and directed international courses in futures studies and was secretary-general from 1993 to 1997. He looks forward to helping take WFSF into the new century.

Tony left academia early to concentrate on research and consulting for non-profit, community organisations. This anticipates future designs for organisation and community development in a communicative age.

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