21st Century Megatrends: Perspectives from a Fox

By Clem Sunter

'Clem Sunter is South Africa's pre-eminent scenario planner'

- Daily Maverick

Like true foxes, South Africans invariably rise to the challenge of adapting to whatever the future throws at them. All that is needed is leadership of the right kind.

The latest in Clem Sunter's top-selling series of books, 21st Century Megatrends gives politicians, business leaders, social activists - and all the rest of us - a way of understanding the path forward in a world that constantly generates mixed signals about the future.

Packed full of wit and wisdom, this book offers the best of his recent columns, which highlight the megatrends shaping our lives. It describes how South Africa must establish an economic platform able to launch a new generation of entrepreneurs - in order to make the rest of this century a prosperous one for us all.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Media24 Books
• Release date: Apr 17, 2014
• ISBN: 9780624066064

Clem Sunter

Clem Sunter was born in England and read politics, philosophy and economics at Oxford before moving to Zambia in 1971 to work for Anglo American Central Africa. In 1973 he came to Anglo headquarters in South Africa, where he spent most of his career in the gold and uranium division, serving as its chairman and CEO from 1990 to 1996. In the early 1980s, Sunter established a scenario planning function at Anglo with teams in London and Johannesburg. He is probably best known for his ‘High Road/Low Road’ scenarios for South Africa in the 1980s. His 2001 book, "The Mind of a Fox", co-authored with Chantell Ilbury, anticipated a major terrorist attack on a western city before the 9/11 tragedy in New York. The book sold more than 50 000 copies. Since 1987, Clem has authored or co-authored 18 books, many of them bestsellers. He has given scenario presentations worldwide, including lectures at the Harvard Business School in Boston and at the Central Party School in Beijing. Sunter married Margaret Rowland in 1969 and they have one daughter and two sons. His hobbies include walking and rock music although he hung up his guitar professionally in 1964 shortly after his band played at the same gig as the Rolling Stones.