David Korten, is the author of the international bestsellers When Corporations Rule the World; The Post-Corporate World: Life After Capitalism, Globalizing Civil Society, Getting to the 21st Century: Voluntary Action and the Global Agenda, The Great Turning, and, most recently, Agenda For A New Economy: From Phantom Wealth to Real Wealth.
He holds MBA and Ph.D. degrees from the Stanford Business School and has thirty years of experience as a development worker in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. He co-founded and is board chair of the Positive Futures Network, which publishes YES! A Journal of Positive Futures, and is founder and president of the Living Economies Forum, co-chair of the New Economy Working Group, and a member of the Club of Rome.
