Banning Garrett is a Washington-based strategic thinker, writer, speaker, and entrepreneur focusing on exponential technologies and global trends. He is an independent consultant, faculty member at Singularity University, adviser to several high-tech startups, and co-founder of a nano RFID startup. Dr. Garrett was director of the Atlantic Council’s Asia Program and the founding director of its Strategic Foresight Initiative.  In 2006, he established and subsequently led the Council’s cooperation with the National Intelligence Council in production of the NIC’s unclassified, quadrennial long-term global trends assessments, including Global Trends 2025 and Global Trends 2030. He created and directed the Council’s project on that produced a U.S.-China joint assessment of long-term global.”