Prof. Dr. Peter Mettler

Biography

Prof. Dr. Mettler is a scientist and internationally renowned future researcher. He is co-organizer of the Wiesbadener Zukunftsdialog (future dialogue Wiesbaden), co-editor of the most important Latin American magazine in economic sciences, „Problemas des Desarrollo“ (Mexico). Furthermore Prof. Dr. Mettler is council member of PRELUDE (Programme of Research and Liaison between Universities for Development), Univ. Namur, Belgium and of the Institut für Zukunftsstudien und Technologiebewertung (Institute for Future Studies and Technology Assessment), Berlin. He is academic member of the UIA (Union of International Associations), Brussels and honorary member of the Gesellschaft für Zukunftsmodelle und Systemkritik (Society for Future Models and System Critizism), Münster.

Topic selection

• Cultural Due Diligence
• Technology assessment, environmental compatibility examinations
• Technology transfers
• Effect and acceptance studies
• Future research
• Technological forecasting
• Futures of Europe (EU), the transatlantic relations, Japans, the developing countries
• Delph method

Selected activities of the recent past

• Speech at the Professional Forum: „Europe’s Present Future Thinking: A Societal Science View on Future Geopolitics“
• Speech at the annual meeting of the EU Network of Excellence on Complexity Re-search (Exystence): „Complexity and the Millennium Project of the UNU“
• „Europe’s Present Future Thinking: A Societal Science View on Future Geopolitics“, in Futures Research Quarterly, autumn 2003
• Participation at the German-British workshop “Hothouse with futurologists”, jointly organized by the "Foresight Desk" of the British ministry of technology and industry and „Futur“, the German future dialogue, in London.