Werner Mittelstaedt has been active as an author, critical futurologist and future philosopher since the 1970s. He was the initiator and chairman of the Gesellschaft für Zukunftsmodelle und Systemkritik e.V. (GZS), which was founded in March 1977 and dissolved in August 2007. The GZS was active in the field of critical futures research and helped shape the German futures research scene. He is also the founder and editor of the journal BLICKPUNKT ZUKUNFT, which has been published since 1981 and is one of the oldest journals in the Germanspeaking world with a thematic focus on futures research and design. He is a founding member of the Netzwerk Zukunftsforschung (Future Research Network), which was established in 2007. Furthermore, Werner Mittelstaedt is the author of eleven social science, philosophical and popular science books that deal with the crises and future issues of global society and in which approaches to solutions are presented. He has also published a novel about climate change and well over 200 publications in books, magazines and on the internet. Website: www.werner-mittelstaedt.com