The Millennium Project is a worldwide think tank comprising more than 1,500 futurists, scholars, business leaders, scientists, and policymakers from more than 50 countries, acting under the auspices of the American Council for the United Nations University. The Millennium Project is dedicated to exploring global futures by interviewing and surveying individuals at corporations, universities, NGO's, UN organizations, and governments to understand world change and to identify actions to reach the best possible future for humanity as a whole. The project is not a one-time study of the future, but provides an on-going capacity as a geographically and institutionally dispersed think tank.

The Millennium Project is organized into “Nodes.” Each Node consists of a group of individuals and institutions that identify creative and advanced experts to participate in Millennium Project research. They interconnect global and local perspectives. The Millennium Project Nodes are located in Argentina, Australasia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Central Europe (Czech Republic and Slovakia), Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, the Gulf region, India, Iran, Italy, Japan, Mexico, the Republic of Korea, the United Kingdom, the U.S., Russia, South Africa, and Venezuela.

In addition to its flagship “State of the Future” report, The Millennium Project also produces studies in other specialized areas, including counterterrorism strategies, science and technology, environmental security, future global ethical issues, United Nations Millennium Summit analysis, early warning and decisionmaking, long-range goals for governance, “African Futures 2025” and “Futures Research Methodology.” (See Special Studies on this web site.)

The project and its reports are not official UN or UNU documents, but are products of the American Council for the UNU, a non-profit NGO, which provides support for the United Nations University.

The Millennium Project's work has been recognized by leading organizations and has been named one of the best foresight organizations by the U.S. Department of Energy, is selected among “Top Picks” by the Future Survey, and is recognized as one of the “Best Practices” by United Nations Habitat. Six of the eight "State of the Future" reports were selected by Future Survey as among the year's best books on the future.

For further information, call  1-202-686-5179; email acunu@igc.org or visit www.StateOfTheFuture.org.
 

For More Press Information, contact:

Jerome Glenn, Director
ACUNU Millennium Project
1(202) 686-5179
email: jglenn@igc.org