Christopher B. Jones, PhD, is Executive Director, the Transnormal Institute (Santa Fe, New Mexico); Senior Fellow, Centre for Postnormal Policy and Futures Studies (CPPFS, London); Fellow, World Futures Studies Federation (WFSF); and member of the Association of Professional Futurists. He graduated (MA & PhD) from the University of Hawaii Alternative Futures program, taught political science and futures studies in the US state systems of higher education in Hawaii, Oregon, Texas, and Colorado, and worked for 15 years in the Walden University graduate school of Public Policy and Administration. Jones was one of the first interns at the Institute for Alternative Futures, taught for the MS Program in Studies of the Future at the University of Houston-Clearlake (2001-2004), served as Secretary-General of the WFSF (2001-2005), and is a Futures editorial board member.

Chris specializes in qualitative futures inquiry, brainstorming and creativity, horizon scanning and emerging issues analysis, scenario building, visioning, and strategic foresight planning. His interests include artificial intelligence, space development, cyber security, women’s futures, indigenous futures, deep/dark ecology, global weirding and accelerating warming, Collapse images of the future, non-Western futures, global consciousness, posthumanism, and postnormal times analysis. Jones’ recent futures work includes futures literacy and sustainability policy development for the Ministry of Education, Sarajevo Canton, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and postnormal times (PNT) analysis, futures literacy, and PNT simulations for CPPFS and the Prime Minister’s Office in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.