The Leading Speakers Bureau

Europe’s Most Experienced Futurologist

Ray Hammond is Europe’s most experienced and most widely published Futurologist. For over 25 years he has researched, written and spoken about how future trends will affect society and business. As Global Warming and the threat to the Environment continues to occupy a priority position in the World’s agenda. Ray is one of a few commentators who are equipped to communicate how these massive challenges will affect our futures, the way we do business and the far reaching implications both socially, economically and politically.

A futurologist proved accurate by a quarter-century of predictions

In detail

efore becoming a futurologist, Ray founded and led highly successful magazine publishing and advertising businesses in the UK, Europe and the USA before selling them advantageously. He is now a globally published novelist (Macmillan) whose three recent high-tech futuristic novels have won world-wide critical acclaim. Ray is a visiting lecturer at the Institute For The Future of Humanity, University of Oxford, a visiting lecturer at the London Business School and a contributing editor to the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory at the University of Maryland, U.S.A. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (F.R.S.A.).

What Ray offers
Ray will project an inspirational and breathtaking vision of the future to help your audiences navigate the hyper-competitive virtual economy. This vision will be interpreted from a business, climate, social, political, and economic perspective providing a rounded view of how best to prepare your organization for what the future holds.

How Ray presents
Ray is a stunningly gifted free-form speaker who requires no slides, notes or AV props to enthral an audience! He projects real warmth and dynamism and, using plain language he cuts through complex technical issues, new innovations and business concepts. A natural inspirational orator, Ray steps down into his audiences around the world to motivate and personally inspire them.

Ray Hammond video presentation click on the text

How to Grow a Business in a Recession

The Future of Energy and the Social, Economic and Political Impact of Global Warming

The Seven Key Drivers for the Future

Innovative Management for an Ever Changing Future

Future Trends in Networks and IT

The Future of Money

Future-proof Marketing

Travel (Industry) Into the Future

2007
His latest non-fiction book, ‘The World In 2030′, describes the challenges facing business and society over the next twenty-five years.

2006
The Cloud – fiction, set in 2065
‘The Cloud’ is a dazzling vision of life set in the year 2065.

2005
Extinction – fiction, set in 2056

2002
Emergence – fiction, set in 2015

2000
Robots for Kids Contributing editor

1996
Digital Business – Surviving and Thriving in an On-Line World