Applying strategic foresight, systems analysis, economics, governance, and emerging technologies to help organizations address complex long-term challenges.
Global Development International (GDI) works at the intersection of enterprise, public policy, and global development. GDI supports organizations seeking to anticipate change, strengthen institutions, and translate strategy into practical implementation across health systems, emerging technologies, economics, infrastructure, and broader socio-economic development.
GDI Future
GDI Future is the foresight and strategic initiatives platform of Global Development International.
Through GDI Future, GDI develops analyses, scenarios, and foresight and decision-support tools that help organizations understand emerging trends, systemic risks, opportunities, and the longer-term implications of technological change, economics, demographics, and institutional development.
Perspective
Direct involvement in building organizations, governing enterprises, implementing technologies, and leading major international studies and initiatives has has shaped GDI's experience and perspective across the public and private sectors in the United States and more than 80 countries .
Rather than viewing technology, economics, governance, healthcare, or public policy as separate disciplines, GDI approaches them as interconnected systems requiring integrated analysis and practical implementation.
What GDI Does
GDI works with enterprises, boards, governments, institutions, and collaborative initiatives facing challenges where conventional planning approaches are insufficient.
This work includes:
Institutional Experience and Track Record
GDI's experience encompasses futures research, international development, healthcare enterprise, diagnostics, technology, and infrastructure, public policy, and organizational development, including programs, studies, and enterprise development and support involving institutions in more than 80 countries.
GDI draws on this experience to support and work with organizations, initiatives, and international collaborations in their creation, development, leadership, and governance.
Foresight, Futures, and Long-Range Planning
Futures research, strategic foresight, long-range planning, and scenario development have been central to this work.
Major international foresight initiatives include The Millennium Project, where GDI's leadership participated the the early founding and where it continues to contribute to studies, governance, and international advisory activities.
The Millennium Project is a global network of and for futurists, with Nodes in over 78 countries, addressing a broad scope of interests, methodologies, and timeframes for long-term strategic studies and scenarios, and providing guidance and advisory support.
The Millennium Project provides policymakers, business leaders, and institutions worldwide with guidance on technological, economic, environmental, demographic, and societal change, including alternative approaches to planning and governance.
Current involvement includes work on the international governance of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), particularly the risks associated with increasingly autonomous AI systems and the institutional arrangements needed to address them.
The experience of The Futures Group International is also central to GDI's work. The Futures Group became a global leader in forecasting, planning, policy analysis, and international development support, with offices in the United States and Europe and operations in more than fifty countries.
Futures methodologies developed and applied through these activities continue to inform work in healthcare, economics, technology, energy, education, population dynamics, governance, and broader socio-economic change, linking long-range thinking to current decisions.
Global Development, Health Systems, and Social Welfare
International development work has encompassed health systems, institutional strengthening, supply and distribution infrastructure and economics, enterprise development, organizational leadership, and implementation.
Representative areas of work include:
A distinctive component of GDI's work has been the design, promotion, implementation, and evaluation of policy and behavior-change programs supporting:
Programs in these fields have combined economic-demographic modeling, communications, policy, organizational development, market-based approaches, and appropriate technologies to achieve measurable and sustainable change across diverse institutional and cultural settings.
Medical Diagnostics, Healthcare Enterprise, and Innovation
GDI participates in the development, governance, and growth of medical and healthcare enterprises operating in the United States and internationally.
These enterprises span diagnostics companies, laboratory systems, medical technologies, healthcare services, products, information systems, and related fields.
These have addressed cancer, HIV/AIDS, Ebola, blood safety, blood products, telemedicine, medical logistics, emerging diagnostic technologies, and medical supply and distribution for many infectious diseases.
Linking scientific and medical innovation with enterprise development, governance, regulatory requirements, financing, commercialization, and implementation has been an important part of this work.
Health Infrastructure, Medical Real Estate, and Governance
Healthcare infrastructure and medical real estate are also areas of strategic leadership, planning, organization, and governance.
Activities have included strategic planning, capital deployment, portfolio oversight, governance, and long-term asset management supporting healthcare delivery systems and related medical facilities.
Effective healthcare depends not only on medical science and technology, but also on the institutions, infrastructure, governance, investment, and management required to deliver services efficiently and sustainably.
Energy Economics and Environment
Earlier leadership in energy economics, environmental policy, and socio-economic analysis remains part of GDI's systems approach.
Projects have involved international energy forecasts and assessment programs, energy-economic and systems modeling, policy evaluation, and analysis of alternative energy technologies and strategies in developed and developing countries.
Work in these fields has examined relationships among energy, economic development, environmental stewardship, public policy, technology, and infrastructure investment, helping governments and institutions evaluate strategic alternatives and translate analysis into policy and implementation.
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