Duane Elgin
www.awakeningearth.org. Duane was formerly a senior social scientist at the Stanford Research Institute (now SRI International) in California, where he co-authored numerous studies on the long-range future. Elgin has anticipated some of the most important trends of our time. According to a 1997 Trends Research Institute report, "voluntary simplicity. . . is now spreading throughout the industrialized world. . . . Never before. . . has a societal trend grown so quickly, spread so broadly, and been embraced so eagerly."
Prior to SRI, Duane worked in the early 1970s as a senior staff member for a Presidential Commission on the American Future.
Elgin is project leader of The Millennium Project. He is the primary author of The Millennium Project report “Global Consciousness Change: Indicators of an Emerging Paradigm”. Previously he was also the co-founder and director of “Choosing Our Future”, a non-partisan, non-profit organization created to "revitalize the conversation of democracy by mobilizing our tools of mass communication.
Over the past thirty years, Duane has given more than a hundred major talks and workshops on a wide range of subjects for audiences ranging from business and government executives to college students, and the general public.