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Benjamin J. Butler

Embassy of the Future

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Benjamin J Butler is a former investor and now futurist, storyteller and philosopher. He is the founder of the Embassy of the Future ( Whilst continuing to imagine and forecast futures, he is an evangelist for our transition to a technologically-advanced ecological civilisation - with a Bitcoin centred economy. He regularly speaks at international conferences on global issues and long term futures. He left England 25 years ago and has been ‘on the road ever since,’ accumulating a unique international perspective to advise and guide leaders. Benjamin advises the leadership of a number of organisations about the future including Horasis, the American Renewable Energy Institute, Stop Ecocide International, Ubiquity University, and the UN’s Resilience Frontiers initiative. Previously, he sat on the Global Future Council for Quantum Computing/Applications at the World Economic Forum. Benjamin started his career on Wall St and in global finance and was a highly prescient sense maker and forecaster of the future. He has been a long term practitioner of Zen and the Tao, having been based out of Asia for 22 years. In his early twenties he moved to Japan and learnt the Japanese language, cul

Experience

FounderEmbassy of the Future
Oct 2023
Advisory Board MemberStop Ecocide International
Mar 2025
Author"The Futurist"
Jan 2022
Member, Board of TrusteesAREDAY
Dec 2021
FuturistHorasis
Nov 2020
International Advisory BoardAthena School of Management
Oct 2020
Advisory BoardLifeboat Foundation
Sep 2019
Futurist Speaker - Resilience FrontiersUN Climate Change
Apr 2019
Futurist-In-Residencefutur/io Institute
Oct 2018
Keynote Speakerfutur/io Institute
Sep 2014
Global Future CouncilWorld Economic Forum
Oct 2018 to Nov 2021
Visiting Lecturer on FuturesThe Hong Kong Polytechnic University School of Design (PolyU Design)
Nov 2017 to Nov 2017
Columnist, Dow Theory LettersDow Theory Letters
Aug 2014 to Aug 2017
Managing PartnerMind Fund
Dec 2010 to Nov 2012
Executive DirectorUBS
Oct 2009 to Dec 2010
Portfolio ManagerEdge Capital
Mar 2008 to Sep 2009
Senior ExecutiveNomura
Sep 2002 to Mar 2008
Information networks / Institutional Equity SalesMorgan Stanley
Jun 1999 to Jul 2002

Education

King's College London
Dickson Poon School of Law
1993 to 1995
SOAS University of London
Japanese and Economics (BA) Japanese
1995 to 1999
The University of Osaka
Economics and Finance
1997 to 1998
Schumacher College
Master’s Degree Holistic Science - Dissertation on new aproaches to future thinking: quantum theory and futurism
2015 to 2016
Columbia Business School
Morgan Stanley 2 Month Graduate Program International Finance
1999
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Masters Finance
2009 to 2011
Embley Park
1987 to 1993