About Speaker

Patrick Noack is Executive Director: Future, Foresight and Imagination, at the Dubai Future Foundation, where he manages the Dubai Future Institute that includes the research team, the Academy, the WEF C4IR and the Dubai Future Forum. He is Policy Fellow at the Centre for Science and Policy, University of Cambridge and is a member of the WHO’s Eastern Mediterranean Region’s Technical Advisory Committee. Time permitting, he writes an opinion column in The National on foresight topics. Patrick holds a MSc in social policy from the LSE and a PhD from the University of Aberdeen.