GTI Forum
Al Hammond
Al Hammond is a serial entrepreneur, a widely published author, and a pioneer in market-based solutions to poverty. He is co-founder and Executive VP for Strategy of Healthpoint Services, which delivers safe drinking water to rural and small town communities in India, and the former leader the Health for All program at Ashoka, a global network of social entrepreneurs. He has served as a consultant to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, US federal agencies, the United Nations, major corporations, and private foundations. He holds degrees from Stanford and Harvard Universities in engineering and applied mathematics.
GTI Contributions
GTI Forum
GTI Forum
Roundtable
Contribution to GTI Roundtable Global Capitalism
An exchange on the essay Global Capitalism: Reflections on a Brave New World
June 2017
The technology spawned by global capitalism is the key to building a better world.
Roundtable
Contribution to GTI Roundtable “The Degrowth Debate”
An exchange on the viewpoint The Degrowth Alternative
February 2015
Other Key Docs
April 2002
Great Transition: The Promise and Lure of the Times Ahead examines the possibilities for a sustainable and desirable world. The essay describes the historic roots, future perils, and alternative pathways for world development and advances the Great Transition path as the preferred route, identifying strategies, global actors, and values for a new agenda.
Other Key Docs
November 1998
This paper analyzes the prospects for sustainability within the confines of Conventional Worlds scenarios. The shift to more sustainable forms of development must at least begin at this level, although we will likely need more fundamental social changes to complete the transition to a sustainable global society. The paper introduces social and environmental targets as well as strategic policies for reaching them. It shows both the great potential for progress and the daunting challenges within a growth-driven development paradigm.
Other Key Docs
November 1997
This paper introduces scenario methods and a framework for envisioning global futures. It depicts contrasting world development scenarios, all compatible with current patterns and trends, but with sharply different implications for the quest for sustainability in the twenty-first century. Three broad scenario classes are depicted—Conventional Worlds, Barbarization, and Great Transitions—which are characterized by, respectively, essential continuity with current patterns, fundamental but degenerative social change, and fundamental and progressive social transformation.
