Noah Raford Explained

Birth Date:3 May 1978
Birth Place:Charlottesville, Virginia
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Noah Raford (born 3 May 1978 in Charlottesville, Virginia) is an American futurist and specialist in public policy, strategy and emerging technologies. He is a founding executive of the Dubai Future Foundation[1] [2] and the Museum of the Future,[3] and is currently the Futurist-in-Chief and Chief of Global Affairs at the Dubai Future Foundation.[4] [5] He was responsible for a project claiming to be the world's first fully functional 3D printed building[6] and a blockchain strategy for Dubai.[7] [8]

Early life and education

Raford was born in Charlottesville, United States. He earned a Bachelor in Sociospatial Analysis and Design at Brown University in 2000, and completed his master's in advanced architectural analysis from the Bartlett School of Architecture at University College London (UCL) in 2004. In 2011, he received his PhD in Urban and Regional Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).[9]

Career

From 2004 to 2009, Raford worked as the North American Director of Space Syntax Limited, the UK architectural and urban planning think tank. From 2008 to 2010, he was the Senior Research Advisor to the Prince’s Foundation for the Built Environment. In 2010, he was a senior strategy consultant at Monitor/Global Business Network.

Raford served as a member World Economic Forum (WEF) Global Agenda Council on Artificial Intelligence and Robotics.[10] He is the former CEO and co-founder of Futurescaper,[11] a cloud-based foresight company founded in 2011.

In 2011, Raford founded the first global foresight in the UAE and served as an advisor to the Director General in the UAE Prime Minister’s Office. In 2016, he became a founding executive of the Dubai Future Foundation, and Acting Executive Director of Museum of the Future, responsible for initiatives such as the Dubai Future Accelerators,[12] UAE Drones for Good,[13] [14] and Courts of the Future Forum.

His other affiliations include senior research associate at the London School of Economics, research fellowship at the University of Oxford, Said Business School and James Martin 21st Century School, and an honorary faculty position at University College London, the Bartlett School of Architecture.

Talks and panels

Bibliography

References

  1. Web site: Machines won't steal your jobs, says expert. Khaleej Times. en. 2020-05-15.
  2. Web site: Futurism, the story of the Future of Dubai by Dr. Noah Raford – Dubai Future Foundation. 2021-08-04. events.dubaifuture.ae.
  3. Web site: Dubai Museum of the Future exhibit opens to public. The National. 9 February 2016 . en. 2020-05-14.
  4. Web site: UAE seeks 'brilliant minds' for space project. Eoghan Macguire . Victoria Brown. CNN. 15 February 2018 . 2020-05-14.
  5. Web site: Noah Raford, the designer of the future. 2018-09-04. MEET. 2020-05-14.
  6. Web site: Dubai's Office of the Future gets Guinness World Record as first 3D printed building. The National. 22 February 2020 . en. 2020-05-14.
  7. Web site: World capital of blockchain is now rising in the Middle East. MacBride. Elizabeth. 2017-11-06. CNBC. en. 2020-05-15.
  8. Web site: Noah Raford « Flux Energy Utilities of the future. 2021-08-04. en-US.
  9. Large scale participatory futures systems : a comparative study of online scenario planning approaches. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 2011. Thesis. Noah A. . Raford. 1721.1/68444.
  10. Web site: Noah Raford. World Economic Forum. en. 2020-05-14.
  11. Web site: About Futurescaper. 2021-08-04. Futurescaper. en-GB.
  12. Web site: New entities to join Dubai Future Accelerators. gulfnews.com. 5 October 2016 . en. 2020-05-14.
  13. Wohlsen. Marcus. 2014-02-13. Dubai Could Make Drone Deliveries Before Amazon Does. Wired. 2020-05-14. 1059-1028.
  14. Web site: UAE develops delivery drones to improve government services. The National. 10 February 2014 . en. 2020-05-15.
  15. Web site: Global Art Forum: UAE Past, Present, Future. Raford. Noah. .
  16. Web site: Noah Raford - Artificial Intelligence: Our super-intelligent friend?. Raford. Noah. . September 2018.
  17. Web site: Dr. Noah Raford - World Blockchain Forum. Raford. Noah. . April 2018.
  18. Web site: First the Desert, Then the Stars: The Dubai Future Foundation, the Museum of the Future, and the 21st Century www.caltech.edu. www.caltech.edu. 2020-05-14.
  19. Web site: Noah Raford, World Trade Day. . 2017.
  20. Web site: Jack Ma and Medvedev take part in Moscow International Open Innovations Forum. . 2017.
  21. Web site: Global Art Forum 10: Postcards from the Future with Noah Raford. Noah. Raford. . April 2016.
  22. Web site: Raford Noah. www.tedxdanubia.com. hu. 2020-05-14.
  23. Web site: Dubai, The Most Sustainable City - Dr Noah Raford - Flux Symposium 2017. .
  24. Web site: Future of Cities. Raford. Noah. June 2010.
  25. Book: Raford. Noah. Warlords, Inc.: Black Markets, Broken States, and the Rise of the Warlord Entrepreneur. Trabulsi. Andrew. 2015-05-12. North Atlantic Books. 978-1-58394-902-3. en.
  26. Book: Gupta. Vinay. The Future We Deserve. Lupton. Cat. Raford. Noah. November 2012. PediaPress GmbH. 978-3-86898-003-5. en.
  27. Raford. Noah. August 2015. Online foresight platforms: Evidence for their impact on scenario planning & strategic foresight. Technological Forecasting and Social Change. en. 97. 65–76. 10.1016/j.techfore.2014.03.008.
  28. Web site: Crowd-sourced Collective Intelligence Platforms for Participatory Scenarios and Foresight. https://web.archive.org/web/20200218094805/https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/d4a3/f4ef19265f6bcdde390bdbb1b3708b4b9d37.pdf. dead. 2020-02-18. Raford. Noah. 2012. Crowd-sourced Collective Intelligence Platforms for Participatory Scenarios and Foresight PDF. 145624898 .
  29. Turning Foresight Inside Out: An Introduction to Ethnographic Experiential Futures * Journal of Futures Studies. Journal of Futures Studies. 2019 . 23 . 3 . en-US. 10.6531/jfs.201903_23(3).0002. 2020-05-14 . Stuart Candy . Kelly Kornet .
  30. Book: Walford. Geoffrey. Tucker. Eric. Viswanathan. Madhu. 2010. The SAGE Handbook of Measurement. 10.4135/9781446268230. 9781412948142.
  31. Geyer. Judy. Raford. Noah. Pham. Trinh. Ragland. David R.. January 2006. Safety in Numbers. Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board. en-US. 1982. 1. 150–154. 10.1177/0361198106198200119. 220750425 . 0361-1981.
  32. Raford. Noah. Ragland. David. January 2004. Space Syntax: Innovative Pedestrian Volume Modeling Tool for Pedestrian Safety. Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board. en-US. 1878. 1. 66–74. 10.3141/1878-09. 109182801 . 0361-1981.

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