Keynote: Dr Richard Hames PhD

Dr. Richard Hames is a strategic foresight practitioner and one of the world's most influential intellectuals. As founder of globally distributed think-tank The Hames Group, Richard works internationally as an adviser to governments and with many of the world's most innovative business corporations.

An Australian citizen, educated in Europe and domiciled in Thailand, he has been honored with numerous awards including a French Government Scholarship, a Leverhulme European Fellowship, the Mondadori Professorial Fellowship and the Lord Attlee Fellowship. He is personal mentor to Presidents, heads of state, and CEOs in UK, France, Switzerland, US, China, Japan, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, South Africa, Brazil, New Zealand and Australia.

Richard is a member of the Australian Graduate School of Entrepreneurship Advisory Board, a strategic adviser to Dortmund University and the World Wildlife Fund, an adviser on energy futures to Singapore Power and the Chinese Government, and President-Elect of the Asian Institute for Global Futures. He is also the driver and inspiration behind New Life Isaan - a multimillion dollar economic development initiative being undertaken in the northeast of Thailand.

A celebrated speaker and writer, Richard is author of the best-selling books 'The Management Myth, Burying the 20th Century' and 'The Five Literacies of Global Leadership'.