I blog for SAMI Consulting, a strategic foresight consultancy. The following blogs are available on their website.
"The EXTRA Information Hub"
Report on a new initiative of the World Academy of Arts and Sciences (WAAS), 8th October, 2025
https://www.samiconsulting.co.uk/post/the-extra-information-hub
“The Shape of Things to Come – Today”: Part 2
A consideration of how H G Wells applied his thinking to his own future and what he would have made of the situation in the world today. (25th June, 2025)
https://www.samiconsulting.co.uk/post/the-shape-of-things-to-come-today-part-2
“The Shape of Things to Come – Today”: Part 1
A consideration of H G Wells’s novel The Shape of Things to Come, published in 1933, what he got right and what he did not foresee. (18th June, 2025)
https://www.samiconsulting.co.uk/post/the-shape-of-things-to-come-today-part-1
“The UN Summit of the Future 2024 – Part 3: The Aftermath”
A consideration of what happened following the summit and the extent of any effect it may have had. (11th June, 2025)
https://www.samiconsulting.co.uk/post/the-un-summit-of-the-future-part-3
“The UN Summit of the Future 2024 – Part 2: The Proceedings and the Immediate Reaction”
A review of what actually occurred at the Summit and Pre-Summit events and reactions to it. (4th June, 2025)
https://www.samiconsulting.co.uk/post/the-un-summit-of-the-future-part-2
“The UN Summit of the Future 2024 – Part 1: The Outcome Document – ‘Pact for the Future’
”A review of what was agreed at the Summit, the outcome document adopted by world leaders. (29th May, 2025)
https://www.samiconsulting.co.uk/post/the-un-summit-of-the-future-part-1
“The World Futures Studies Federation’s 50th Anniversary Conference, 2023”
A report on this anniversary conference which took as its theme ‘Exploring Liminalities: Creating Spaces for Unlimited Futures’. (29th November, 2023)
https://www.samiconsulting.co.uk/post/the-world-futures-studies-federation-s-50th-anniversary-conference
“Futures Literacy and Anticipation”
Review of “Transforming the Future – Anticipation in the 21st Century”, UNESCO / Routledge, 2018, and more recent activities. (24th March, 2021)
https://www.samiconsulting.co.uk/post/futures-literacy-and-anticipation
I report on lectures and review books for the Anglo-Ethiopian Society (www.anglo-ethiopian.org.) The following examples are available on their website.
“Famine in the Horn of Africa: what does it mean for Ethiopia?”
Report of a lecture by Laura Hammond, 8th February, 2012, SOAS.
https://anglo-ethiopian.org/publications/publications.php?type=L
“Famine and Foreigners: Ethiopia since Live Aid” by Peter Gill, Oxford University Press, 2010. Book Review.
https://anglo-ethiopian.org/publications/publications.php?type=R
“The Mountains of Rasselas”
Report of a Lecture by Thomas Pakenham, 27th April, 2004, SOAS.
https://anglo-ethiopian.org/publications/publications.php?type=L
“Ogres, Kings and Hyena Women”
Report of a Lecture by Elizabeth Laird on her book, “When the World Began”, folk tales, myths and legends in Ethiopia, 4th February, 2003, SOAS.
https://anglo-ethiopian.org/publications/publications.php?type=L
“Water: how collective intelligence initiatives can address this challenge”, published in the Millennium Project Special Issue of foresight – the journal of futures studies, strategic thinking and policy, Vol. 15 No. 5, 2013, pp. 342-353.
http://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/FS-05-2012-0032/full/html
Co-author, “An Assessment of the City’s ICT Infrastructure”, City of London , 2009
https://silo.tips/download/an-assessment-of-the-city-s-ict-infrastructure