Biography

Toni Ahlqvist is a Professor and Research Director of Futures Research at the Finland Futures Research Centre, Turku School of Economics, University of Turku. His research focuses on futures studies, strategic and technology foresight, spatial planning, and policy and spatial political economy. Prof. Ahlqvist has over 20 years of research experience in these domains. He has led numerous research projects that have covered, e.g., emerging technologies, construction and uses of futures knowledge in organizations and regions, strategic development of industrial branches, such as forest industry in South Australia, and varied aspects of knowledge-based society. His recent projects have covered such domains as foresight and future generations in Finnish law-making, corporate foresight for sustainability in European companies, potential societal antagonisms of radical emerging technologies, and futures of land use planning in Finland. https://www.utu.fi/en/people/toni-ahlqvist