Aaron Maniam

Aaron is a curious generalist - civil servant by profession; poet by calling; educator and diversity facilitator by choice; all by passion. As the first Head of the Centre for Strategic Futures (2010-2011), he and his team often crafted letters, scenarios and other ‘artefacts’ from the future. He believes deeply in the value of such strategic anticipation, and sees inculcating long-term thinking as the most important thing he can do both in and outside work.

A letter from my future self on citizen foresight, why and how?

Keep doing what you do with discussion cards, interactive videos and futures games, which are far more effective in communicating futures to people in the street.

By Aaron Maniam

/ 28 Apr 2017

Stakeholders of goodwill: neither the "salad bowl" nor the "melting pot"

Meaningful stakeholders in the collective, each becoming reasonable people of goodwill - this is the model for successfully living with the identitarianisms that will otherwise tear our future apart. This applies as much to multi-ethnic Europe as the Gulf States or Singapore

By Parag Khanna and Aaron Maniam

/ 30 Aug 2011