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Noah Raford
Raford in 2020
Born (1978-05-03) May 3, 1978 (age 46)
Charlottesville, Virginia
Education
Websitenoahraford.com

Noah Raford (born 3 May 1978 in Charlottesville, Virginia) is an American futurist and specialist in public policy, strategy and emerging technologies.[1] He is a founding executive of the Dubai Future Foundation[2][3][4] and the Museum of the Future,[5] currently serving as Futurist-in-Chief and Chief of Global Affairs at the Dubai Future Foundation.[6][7][4] He was responsible for a project claiming to be the world's first fully functional 3D printed building[8] and he also founded blockchain strategy for Dubai.[9][10]

Early life and education

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Raford was born in Charlottesville, Virginia. He earned a Bachelor in Sociospatial Analysis and Design at Brown University in 2000, and completed his master's in advanced architectural analysis from the Bartlett School of Architecture at University College London (UCL) in 2004. He completed his PhD in Urban and Regional Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2011.[11]

Career

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From 2004 to 2009, Raford worked as the North American Director of Space Syntax Limited, the UK architectural and urban planning think tank. He served as Senior Research Advisor to the Prince’s Foundation for the Built Environment from 2008 to 2010 and was a senior strategy consultant at Monitor/Global Business Network in 2010.

Raford served as a member World Economic Forum (WEF) Global Agenda Council on Artificial Intelligence and Robotics.[3] He is the former CEO and co-founder of Futurescaper,[12] a cloud-based foresight company founded in 2011.

In 2011, Raford founded the first global foresight in the UAE and served as an advisor to the Director General in the UAE Prime Minister’s Office.[13] In 2016, he became a founding executive of the Dubai Future Foundation, and Acting Executive Director of Museum of the Future, responsible for initiatives such as the Dubai Future Accelerators,[14] UAE Drones for Good,[15][16] and Courts of the Future Forum.[17]

His other affiliations include senior research associate at the London School of Economics,[citation needed] research fellowship at the University of Oxford, Said Business School[citation needed] and James Martin 21st Century School, and an honorary faculty position at University College London, the Bartlett School of Architecture.[citation needed]

Talks and panels

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  • “UAE Past, Present, Future”, Global Art Forum, 2018.[18]
  • “Artificial Intelligence: Our super-intelligent friend?”, Abu Dhabi Ideas Weekend, 2018.[19]
  • World Block Chain Forum, 2018.[20]
  • “First the Desert, Then the Stars”, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 2018.[21]
  • “Transformative Policy Design”, World Trade Center, Denver, Colorado, 2017.[22]
  • Moscow International Open Innovations Forum, 2017.[23]
  • “Four Postcards from the Future”, Global Art Forum, 2016.[24]
  • TedxDanubia, 2015.[25]
  • "Dubai, the most sustainable city", Flux Symposium, 2015.[26]
  • “The Future of Cities: Three Scenarios for Future Urbanism” Harvard University, 2010.[27]

Bibliography

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  • Raford N, Trabulsi, A, Warlords, Inc.: Black Markets, Broken States, and the Rise of the Warlord Entrepreneur, North Atlantic Books, 2015.[28]
  • Raford N, Gupta, N, Lupton, C, The Future We Deserve, PediaPress GmbH, 2012.[29]
  • Raford N, “Online foresight platforms: Evidence for their impact on scenario planning & strategic foresight”,Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Special Issue on Foresight Support Systems, Volume 97, August, 2015.[30]
  • Raford N, Crowdsourced Collective Intelligence Platforms for Participatory Scenarios and Foresight”, Journal of Futures Studies, Vo. 17 (1), 2012.[31]
  • Raford N, “From Design Fiction to Experiential Futures”,The Future of Futures, Ed. Curry A, Association of Professional Futurists, London, England.[32]
  • Raford N and Hillier B, “Measurement and description in socio-spatial analysis”, The Sage Handbook of Measurement, Oxford University Press, 2010.[33]
  • Geyer J, Raford N, Pham T, “The Continuing Debate about Safety in Numbers—Data from Oakland, CA”, Proceedings of the 85th Annual Meeting, Transportation Research Board, Washington, D.C., January, 2006.[34]
  • Raford N, Ragland R, “Space Syntax: An Innovative Pedestrian Volume Modeling Tool for Pedestrian Safety”, Proceedings of the 83rd Annual Meeting, Transportation Research Board, Washington, D.C., January, 2004.[35]

References

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  1. ^ Futurists you should know: Dr Noah Raford, Something Kreative Studios, 2020-01-22, retrieved 2020-05-14
  2. ^ "Machines won't steal your jobs, says expert". Khaleej Times. Retrieved 2020-05-15.
  3. ^ a b "Noah Raford". World Economic Forum. Retrieved 2020-05-14.
  4. ^ a b "Futurism, the story of the Future of Dubai by Dr. Noah Raford – Dubai Future Foundation". events.dubaifuture.ae. Retrieved 2021-08-04.
  5. ^ "Dubai Museum of the Future exhibit opens to public". The National. 9 February 2016. Retrieved 2020-05-14.
  6. ^ Eoghan Macguire; Victoria Brown (15 February 2018). "UAE seeks 'brilliant minds' for space project". CNN. Retrieved 2020-05-14.
  7. ^ "Noah Raford, the designer of the future". MEET. 2018-09-04. Retrieved 2020-05-14.
  8. ^ "Dubai's Office of the Future gets Guinness World Record as first 3D printed building". The National. 22 February 2020. Retrieved 2020-05-14.
  9. ^ MacBride, Elizabeth (2017-11-06). "World capital of blockchain is now rising in the Middle East". CNBC. Retrieved 2020-05-15.
  10. ^ "Noah Raford « Flux Energy | Utilities of the future". Retrieved 2021-08-04.
  11. ^ Raford, Noah A. (2011). Large scale participatory futures systems : a comparative study of online scenario planning approaches (Thesis thesis). Massachusetts Institute of Technology. hdl:1721.1/68444.
  12. ^ "About Futurescaper". Futurescaper. Retrieved 2021-08-04.
  13. ^ "Dr. Noah Raford Bio - AmCham Abu Dhabi". 2024-02-13. Retrieved 2024-10-23.
  14. ^ "New entities to join Dubai Future Accelerators". gulfnews.com. 5 October 2016. Retrieved 2020-05-14.
  15. ^ Wohlsen, Marcus (2014-02-13). "Dubai Could Make Drone Deliveries Before Amazon Does". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved 2020-05-14.
  16. ^ "UAE develops delivery drones to improve government services". The National. 10 February 2014. Retrieved 2020-05-15.
  17. ^ Insights from Courts of the Future Forum launch event with Dr. Noah Raford, retrieved 2020-05-14
  18. ^ Raford, Noah. "Global Art Forum: UAE Past, Present, Future". YouTube.
  19. ^ Raford, Noah (September 2018). "Noah Raford - Artificial Intelligence: Our super-intelligent friend?". YouTube.
  20. ^ Raford, Noah (April 2018). "Dr. Noah Raford - World Blockchain Forum". YouTube.
  21. ^ "First the Desert, Then the Stars: The Dubai Future Foundation, the Museum of the Future, and the 21st Century | www.caltech.edu". www.caltech.edu. Retrieved 2020-05-14.
  22. ^ "Noah Raford, World Trade Day". YouTube. 2017.
  23. ^ "Jack Ma and Medvedev take part in Moscow International Open Innovations Forum". YouTube. 2017.
  24. ^ Noah, Raford (April 2016). "Global Art Forum 10: Postcards from the Future with Noah Raford". YouTube.
  25. ^ "Raford Noah". www.tedxdanubia.com (in Hungarian). Retrieved 2020-05-14.
  26. ^ "Dubai, The Most Sustainable City - Dr Noah Raford - Flux Symposium 2017". YouTube.
  27. ^ Raford, Noah (June 2010). "Future of Cities".
  28. ^ Raford, Noah; Trabulsi, Andrew (2015-05-12). Warlords, Inc.: Black Markets, Broken States, and the Rise of the Warlord Entrepreneur. North Atlantic Books. ISBN 978-1-58394-902-3.
  29. ^ Gupta, Vinay; Lupton, Cat; Raford, Noah (November 2012). The Future We Deserve. PediaPress GmbH. ISBN 978-3-86898-003-5.
  30. ^ Raford, Noah (August 2015). "Online foresight platforms: Evidence for their impact on scenario planning & strategic foresight". Technological Forecasting and Social Change. 97: 65–76. doi:10.1016/j.techfore.2014.03.008.
  31. ^ Raford, Noah (2012). "Crowd-sourced Collective Intelligence Platforms for Participatory Scenarios and Foresight" (PDF). Crowd-sourced Collective Intelligence Platforms for Participatory Scenarios and Foresight PDF. S2CID 145624898. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-02-18.
  32. ^ Stuart Candy; Kelly Kornet (2019). "Turning Foresight Inside Out: An Introduction to Ethnographic Experiential Futures * Journal of Futures Studies". Journal of Futures Studies. 23 (3). doi:10.6531/jfs.201903_23(3).0002. Retrieved 2020-05-14.
  33. ^ Walford, Geoffrey; Tucker, Eric; Viswanathan, Madhu (2010). The SAGE Handbook of Measurement. doi:10.4135/9781446268230. ISBN 9781412948142.
  34. ^ Geyer, Judy; Raford, Noah; Pham, Trinh; Ragland, David R. (January 2006). "Safety in Numbers". Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board. 1982 (1): 150–154. doi:10.1177/0361198106198200119. ISSN 0361-1981. S2CID 220750425.
  35. ^ Raford, Noah; Ragland, David (January 2004). "Space Syntax: Innovative Pedestrian Volume Modeling Tool for Pedestrian Safety". Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board. 1878 (1): 66–74. doi:10.3141/1878-09. ISSN 0361-1981. S2CID 109182801.
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