Simon Fuglsang Østergaard is Director & Futurist with deep experience leading complex foresight projects across business and society, working with high-level national and international stakeholders. He specialises in exploring long-term strategic implications through scenario planning and strategic foresight more broadly. His work helps improve organisational anticipation and resilience by challenging outdated strategic outlooks and misguided assumptions about the future.
In addition to foresight project work and strategic advisory, Simon leads CIFS’ foresight training portfolio. He develops and facilitates both CIFS’ open courses for individuals looking to advance their strategic foresight competencies and organisational learning programmes designed to support foresight capability building.
As Head of Strategic Foresight, Simon works to safeguard the standards, integrity, and consistency of foresight practice across CIFS. A self-described ‘foresight nerd’, Simon combines high ambition for the practice with curiosity about how the field can advance. He also leads internal workstreams on foresight methodology, including toolkits, CIFS’ principles for strategic foresight, and new learning formats, among other initiatives. He is the author of a published foresight method, The Seven Provocations.
Education:
MSc in International Economic Consulting - Aarhus School of Business and Social Sciences at Aarhus University (2013).
Previous work experience:
2013-2016: Advisor - Business and Society, Danish Technological Institute
