J. Ian Morrison

Ian Morrison is an internationally known author, consultant, and futurist specializing in long-term forecasting and planning with particular emphasis on healthcare and the changing business environment. He combines research and consulting skills with his incisive Scottish wit to help public and private organizations plan their long-term future.

Morrison has written, lectured, and consulted on a wide variety of forecast¬ing, strategy, and healthcare topics for government, industry, and nonprofit organizations in North America, Europe, and Asia. He has spoken to a wide range of audiences, from the boards of Fortune 100 companies to the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing; in addition, Morrison has worked with more than 100 Fortune 500 companies in healthcare, manufacturing, information technology, and financial services. Recent client sponsors include Pfizer, XL Capital, and Kaiser Permanente. He is a frequent commentator on the future for television, radio, and the print media.

Morrison is the author of Leading Change in Health Care: Building a Viable System for Today and Tomorrow, Healthcare in the New Millennium: Vision, Values and Leadership, and The Second Curve: Managing The Velocity of Change, which was a New York Times Business and Businessweek bestseller. Morrison has co-authored several books and chapters, including Future Tense: The Business Realities of the Next Ten Years and Looking Ahead at American Health Care. He also has co-authored numerous journal articles for publications such as Chief Executive, Encyclopedia Britannica, Across the Board, The British Medical Journal, New England Journal of Medicine, and Health Affairs.

Morrison is President Emeritus of the Institute for the Future (IFTF) and a founding partner in Strategic Health Perspectives, a joint venture between Harris Interactive and the Harvard School of Public Health's Department of Health Policy and Management. From 1996-1999, he was retained by Accenture (formerly Andersen Consulting) as Chairman of the Health Futures Forum. In that capacity, he chaired a number of international forums on the future of healthcare.

Before coming to IFTF in 1985, Morrison spent seven years in British Columbia, Canada, in a variety of research, teaching, and consulting positions. He holds an interdisciplinary Ph.D. in urban studies from the University of British Columbia; an M.A. in geography from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland; and a graduate degree in urban planning from the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England. He is a member of the Board of Directors of SFN Group (an NYSE company); a past director of the Health Research and Education Trust (HRET), the research and education arm of the American Hospital Association; a director and current chair of the California Health Care Foundation; and a past director of the Center for Healthcare Design. Morrison also serves as a member of the Stakeholders Advisory Committee of the Program on Health System Improvement at Harvard University.