Career Change To Work in Futures.
In 1988 he was invited to become the CEO of Australia’s Commission for the Future, a major new initiative of the Hawke government. This commenced a new career path in futures that still continues. He established his own organisation the Preferred Futures Institute after his departure from the Commission for the Future in 1991. This was renamed the 2050 Institute in 2012.
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