Nigel Cameron

Strategic adviser and futurist, Nigel Cameron is Chairman of FutureofBiz, LLC (Chicago, Washington DC, and London) and President of the Center for Policy on Emerging Technologies (C-PET, Washington DC). He thinks, speaks, writes, and has extensive experience leading high-level conversations focused on the future that cross disciplinary lines.

He travels widely. In 2010-11 he addressed conferences on all five continents, including the biennial innovation festival hosted by Australian finance giant AMP in Sydney, and Nanomedicine 2010 Beijing, where he moderated the track on regulation, ethics, and business. He keynoted the 2011 "world's leading conference on content marketing" Content Summit in London. In 2012 he was invited to address the UN Rio+20 science pre-con, Planet under Pressure. And to moderate the European Identity and Cloud Conference.

A graduate of Cambridge and Edinburgh Universities and the Edinburgh Business School, before founding C-PET he was Research Professor & Associate Dean at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), where he established the first U.S. university center on nanotechnology & its social implications, and led a study of the multi-sectoral implications of diabetes.

He has written widely on the policy implications of emerging technologies, including: Innovation President; and Scoping the Future (e-books for Amazon Kindle), The New Medicine, & Nanoscale: Issues for the Nano Century. In addition to essays on innovation and technology policy, he blogs at FutureofBiz and is a columnist for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

He has been a featured speaker at the Aspen Ideas Festival, Aspen Global Health Forum, and the STARS business leaders' symposium.

He has also served on US delegations to the UN and UNESCO, and was invited to participate in the State Department-led scenario planning effort Project Horizon.