Email: ozcan.saritas@mbs.ac.uk
Ozcan is based at the University of Manchester. He is a Research Fellow at the Manchester Institute of Innovation Research (MIoIR, formerly PREST) and is the editor of Foresight: the journal of future studies, strategic thinking and policy. In MIoIR, he is engaged in various research and teaching activities. His research activity has been focused mostly upon long-term policy and strategy making with particular emphasis upon Foresight methodologies and their implementation in socio-economic and technological fields at the supra-national, national, regional and sectoral levels. With a PhD from the ¡°Foresight and Prospective Studies Programme¡± of the University of Manchester, Ozcan has kept abreast of the latest in academic research on improving the quality of futures research. He has introduced novel concepts like ¡°Systemic Foresight Methodology (SFM)¡± and ¡°Innovation Foresight¡±, which have been applied successfully to address long term issues involved in Sustainable Development, Renewable Energies, Information and Communication Technologies, and Development and Poverty.

Ozcan has taken part in the design and implementation of executive education courses on foresight concepts and methods in Manchester and in collaboration with international organisations such as the UNIDO, European Commission and European Science Foundation. He has attended a number of conferences and have given keynote speeches on foresight. During all this work, he has collaborated with a number of policy-makers, researchers and corporate managers, particularly from Europe, North America, Asia, and Africa which has provided great opportunities to expand his networks across the globe.