Benjamin J Butler is a futurist and former investor. Whilst continuing to imagine and forecast futures, he is an evangelist for our transition to a technologically-advanced ecological civilisation. Benjamin left the U.K. a week after his last university exam and 'has been on the road ever since”; his adventures and conversations with frontier thinkers provide inspiration for his insights. He regularly provokes and inspires audiences at international conferences on global issues and long term futures.

Benjamin has board positions or advises the leadership of a number of organisations about the future including Zurich-based Horasis, the American Renewable Energy Institute , Ubiquity University, the UN's Resilience Frontiers initiative (which uses collective intelligence to create desirable futures for 2030-2050) and the World Economic Forum on quantum technology. Benjamin is the founder of the Embassy of the Future.

Benjamin started his career on Wall St and in global finance and was a highly prescient sense maker and forecaster of the future. He worked with numerous investment banks and hedge funds advising Chief Investment Officers or as an investor himself. In 2011 he co-founded a venture capital firm Mind Fund and was an early investor in Tik Tok. For several years he wrote the International Column of Dow Theory Letters with Wall St legend Richard Russell.

He has been a long term practitioner of Zen and the Tao, having been based out of Asia for over two decades. In his early twenties he moved to Japan and learnt the Japanese language, culture and Zen. In recent years he has become passionate about the return of indigenous wisdom, including that of his homeland- Druidry.