Professor Christopher B. Jones

Christopher B. Jones, Ph.D. is Professor at Walden University’s School of Public Policy and Administration, Senior Fellow at The Centre for Postnormal Policy and Futures Studies, and Faculty at DMS International. He works on Postnormal Times Policy Analysis, Futures Studies, Preferred Futures, Civilizational Collapse, and Climate Catastrophe. He is the Author of the 2005 Fire and Ice novel, exploring eco-terrorism, alien first contact, and the collapse of Western civilization.

As the Senior Fellow at The Centre for Postnormal Policy and Futures Studies, Chris specializes in qualitative futures inquiry, including brainstorming and creativity, horizon scanning and emerging issues analysis, scenario building, visioning, and strategic foresight planning.

Read The Perfect Postnormal Storm: COVID-19 Chronicles.

His subject interests include space development, cyber security, women’s futures, indigenous futures, deep/dark ecology, global weirding and accelerating warming, non-Western futures, global consciousness, and high technology.

Chris joined DMS International Academy in 2022 where he works on Futures Studies offering tailored training programs to organizations. He has been a Member of the Association of Professional Futurists since 2005.

Chris earned his Ph.D. in Political Science and Futures Studies in 1989 and his Master’s Degree of Arts from Alternative Futures, both from the University of Hawaii at Manoa. After graduation and until 1992, Chris was Research Associate at the Manoa University where he did field research on climate change, coastal zone management, sea level rise, waste management, and futures studies. Smaller projects included alternative conflict resolution, peace research, and judicial futures.

In 1992, he became Associate Professor at the Eastern Oregon University in the Department of Political Science where he lectured for almost eight years when he joined the University of Houston-Clear Lake in 2000 as Professor in the Studies of the Futures masters program.

During this time, between 2001 and 2005, he was Secretary General of the World Futures Studies Federation, a UNESCO and UN consultative partner and global NGO. They bring together academics, researchers, practitioners, students, and futures-focused institutions.

In 2008, Chris became the Futures Director at Gaia Somatics. For almost ten years, he worked to help and preserve the health and wellness of individuals, communities, and organizations, and health of the planet. Gaia Somatics is a futures consultancy, futures education and training, and futures policy analysis business.

In 2006, he was a full-time Visiting Professor at Colorado Mesa University in the Political Science department lecturing on American Institutions and futures studies.

Watch What the Marshall Islands can do about global climate change and the environment.

Read Touching The Future and Epistemologies And Change In Postnormal Times (chapter two). Read Frail and Feeble Mind: Challenges to Emerging Global Consciousness and Women of the future: alternative scenarios.

Follow his Contributions at the Journal of Future Studies. Visit his LinkedIn profile and his ResearchGate page.