Andrew Zolli

Andrew Zolli is a foresight and global trends consultant who analyzes critical trends at the intersection of culture, technology, and global society. His firm, Z + Partners, helps global companies and institutions see, understand and respond to complex change.

He is also the Curator of the annual PopTech conference, an elite annual gathering of thought leaders which explores the social impact of technology and the shape of things to come.

Andrew was recently named one of the Fellows of the National Geographic Society, where he is leading development of a global initiative to envision new scenarios for life in 2040-2050, and has served as Futurist-in-Residence at both Popular Science and American Demographics magazines, as well as Public Radio's Marketplace.

Andrew is a network member of the Global Business Network, and serves as a Visiting Fellow of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation . In early 2005 he was named to Fast Company's Fast 50, the magazine's annual compilation of emerging business leaders. In the same year, he was named one of Red Herring's "Top 20 Under 35". Andrew's work, writings and ideas have appeared in a wide array of media outlets, including PBS, National Public Radio, The New York Times, Wired, BusinessWeek, ID, Fast Company, The History Channel and many others.

In addition to his work with larger multinational organizations, Andrew advises a number of cutting-edge not-for-profit, public policy and venture-backed startups. He currently serves on the boards of Worldchanging.com, a leading online resource tracking the future of sustainability, and Blurb, a revolutionary publishing company.

In the 1990's, Andrew served as Chief Marketing Officer of one of the world's leading strategic branding consultancies, Siegel & Gale, where he helped develop new designs, businesses, products and services for companies such as The Weather Channel, Netscape, Kodak, American Express, Forrester Research and IBM, among many others. Andrew helped found the company's new media practice, and helped envision and develop next-generation approaches to product development, user experience, and communications. He also created and led the company's research and development lab, which explored digital user experience and interface design. Under his direction, the lab developed significant virtual reality and graphics applications for the Web. Prior to this, in the early 1990's, Andrew participated as an academic researcher in core technology and standards research and development that shaped the World Wide Web.

E-mail Andrew at andrew@worldchanging.com