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
Mar 2022 to Dec 2022
Nov 2017 to Nov 2017
Jun 2011 to Jan 2016
Jan 1997 to Jan 1997
Education
Dickson Poon School of Law
1993 to 1995
Japanese and Economics (BA) Japanese
1995 to 1999
Economics and Finance
1997 to 1998
Master’s Degree Holistic Science - Dissertation on new aproaches to future thinking: quantum theory and futurism
2015 to 2016
Morgan Stanley 2 Month Graduate Program International Finance
1999
Masters Finance
2009 to 2011
1987 to 1993