Simon Fuglsang Østergaard is a Futurist and Senior Advisor with deep experience leading complex foresight projects across business and society, with high-level national and international stakeholders. He specialises in exploring long-term strategic implications through scenario planning, trend analysis, and strategic foresight more broadly. His work helps improve organisational anticipation and resilience by challenging organisational outdated outlooks and misguided assumptions about the future.
In addition to foresight project work and strategic advisory, Simon heads CIFS’ foresight training portfolio. He develops and facilitates both CIFS’ open courses for individuals looking to advance their strategic foresight competencies, as well as organisational learning programs designed to support foresight capability building.
A self-described ‘foresight nerd,’ Simon is deeply committed to high ambition and high standards in the practice of foresight. He is driven by a deep curiosity about the advancement of the field, and also leads internal workstreams related to foresight methodology, including toolkits, CIFS’s principles for strategic foresight, and new learning formats, among other initiatives.
Education:
MSc in International Economic Consulting - Aarhus School of Business and Social Sciences at Aarhus University (2013).
2013-2016: Advisor - Business and Society, Danish Technological Institute
