Michel Godet, born in 1948, is a professor at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers (CNAM), Paris, where he holds the chair of 'strategic prospective'. Michel Godet holds doctorates in science and economics. He is also a permanent member of the French Academy of Technology as well as member of the economic advisory board attached to the Prime Minister. Over the past three decades, he has been working as a consultant for major companies in France and Europe.
Professor Godet founded the Circle of Entrepreneurs of the Future which brings together over 40 companies as partners in order to spread knowledge and good practices that encourage people to think and act differently.
He is the author of Creating Futures : Scenarios Building as a Strategic Management Tool (2006) second edition (available on line).
Other publications include From Anticipation to Action (1993), Scenarios and Strategic Management (1987), and numerous books, papers, and articles.
A member of various editorial boards, Michel Godet also collaborates on special issues like Technological Forecasting and Social Change (TFSC) Strategic Foresight Volume 77, Issue 9, 2010 (Guest editor with Philippe Durance and Joseph Coates.
In 2011, Michel Godet and Philippe Durance published with Dunod and Unesco a reference work, La Prospective Stratégique pour les entreprises et les territoires with an English version following, Strategic Foresight for Corporate and Regional Development. This publication is going online in seven languages with the support of of the Fondation Prospective et Innovation and will be made available in bilingual editions as of 2011 and 2012.

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