UNESCO Chair for the Future of Finance

1. Contribute to addressing the major challenges of our times

Our (eco)system has reached its limits. And if the system is to endure, we must somehow reinvent it. Our goal is to develop our ability to better understand the structural and existential challenges the system is facing today – environment, demography, technology, inequalities, globalization, etc. And as a cardinal point, the question of value and how it translates into our systems of exchange, planning, risk management, and our capacity to imagine and therefore create an emerging and novel future.

2. Develop your organization’s capability to “use” the future

By contributing to the development of Futures Literacy within your organization, the Chair contributes directly to your ability to transform emergence into opportunity and performance. The Chair allows your teams to benefit from a solid and proven methodology to become fully “future-prepared” using the 2 pillars of future studies: planning and emergence.

3. Learn and innovate through Futures Literacy Labs (FLL)

These are ‘living labs’ that use action learning to rapidly build skills and insights from a more advanced appreciation of the attributes and role of the future. FLLs are an effective process of collective intelligence to discover and examine the elements that shape and limit our ability to imagine the future – our anticipatory assumptions. FLLs provide participants and their organizations with the power of the futures we imagine, to influence what we see and do in the present.