Otto Scharmer

Senior Lecturer and Co-Founder of the Presencing Institute (USA)

Otto Scharmer chairs the MIT IDEAS program for cross-sector innovation and introduced the concept of «presencing» – learning from the emerging future – in his bestselling books Theory U and Presence. He launched an annual innovation infrastructure called Societal Transformation Lab that helps teams to reinvent economies and advance democracies. The United Nations Deputy Secretary-General appointed him to the UN Learning Advisory Council for the 2030 Agenda. He is a member of the World Future Council.