【Speaker】John Naisbitt, famous futurist

【Topic】Megatrends China

【Language】English

【Date】18:30-20:30,2008-9-18, Thursday

【Venue】Room 101, Shunde Building, Tsinghua SEM

【Organizer】Center for Leadership Development and Research, Tsinghua SEM; Youth League of Tsinghua SEM

【Background Information】

· Studied at Harvard, Cornell and Utah Universities

· Former executive with IBM and Eastman Kodak

· Assistant Secretary of Education to President Kennedy

· Special Assistant to President Johnson

· Former visiting fellow at Harvard University, visiting professor at Moscow State University, and current faculty member at the Nanjing University in China

· Distinguished International Fellow, Institute of Strategic and International Studies (ISIS), Malaysia -- the first non-Asian to hold this appointment

· Recipient of 15 honorary doctorates in the humanities, technology and science

John Naisbittis often called the global philosopher among futurists. With his “astonishingly precise predictions” (Financial Times) and inspiring message, he is one of the most sought-after speakers in the world. He has experience in top management, in politics and as an entrepreneur. His picture of the future is not only formed by the research he does. He has traveled around the world since the late 1960s, keeping in close connection with corporations and people in different fields of endeavor.

His cultural life and residence in the United States, Asia and now Europe keep him directly in touch with a changing economic environment -- experience that is reflected in the books he has written, such as Megatrends, Re-inventing the Corporation, Megatrends 2000, Megatrends for Women, Global Paradox, Megatrends Asia, High Tech High Touch. Megatrends was at the top of the New York Times best-seller list for more than 2 years, published in 57 countries, and sold more than 9 million copies.

John Naisbitt’s goal is to motivate and inspire his audience to see the future as something we can have access to, if we deliberately develop mindsets as a tool to see and evaluate the seeds and signs of change, which in time will build the future.