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Ian Morrison, Ph.D.

Author, Consultant, and Futurist, Menlo Park, CA

Ian Morrison is an internationally known author, consultant, and futurist specializing in long-term forecasting and planning with particular emphasis on healthcare and the changing business environment.  He combines research and consulting skills with an incisive Scottish wit to help public and private organizations plan their longer-term future.

He has written, lectured, and consulted on a wide variety of forecast­ing, strategy, and health care topics for government, industry, and a variety of nonprofit organizations in North America, Europe, and Asia.  He has spoken to a range of audiences from the boards of Fortune 100 companies to the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing.  Mr. Morrison has worked with more than 100 Fortune 500 companies in healthcare, manufacturing, information technology, and financial services.  Recent client sponsors include XL Capital, Pfizer and Kaiser Permanente.  He is a frequent commentator on the future for television, radio, and the print media.

Mr. Morrison is the author of Healthcare in the New Millennium: Vision, Values and Leadership (Jossey-Bass, 2002).  His previous book: The Second Curve - Managing The Velocity of Change  (Ballantine, 1996) was a New York Times Business Bestseller and Businessweek Bestseller.   He has co-authored several books and chapters, including Future Tense: The Business Realities of the Next Ten Years  (William Morrow, 1994) and Looking Ahead at American Health Care (McGraw-Hill, 1988).  He also has co-authored numerous journal articles for publications such as Chief Executive, Encyclopaedia Britannica, Across the Board, The British Medical Journal, New England Journal of Medicine, and Health Affairs.

A President Emeritus of the Institute for the Future (IFTF) and Chair of IFTF’s Health Advisory Panel, Mr. Morrison is a founding partner in Strategic Health Perspectives a joint venture between Harris Interactive, and the Harvard School of Public Health’s Department of Health Policy and Management.

Before coming to IFTF in 1985, Mr. Morrison spent seven years in British Columbia, Canada, in a variety of research, teaching, and consulting positions.  He holds an interdisciplinary Ph.D. in urban studies from the University of British Columbia; an M.A. in geography from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, and a graduate degree in urban planning from the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England). 

He is a member of the Board of Directors of Spherion Corporation (an NYSE company); an immediate past director of the Health Research and Education Trust (HRET), the research and education arm of the American Hospital Association; and a newly elected director of the California Health Care Foundation.  He also serves as a member of the Stakeholders Advisory Committee of the Program on Health System Improvement at Harvard University.