By Erica Wynne, contributing writer

The Hull College of Business will present well-known strategist on global trends Eric Peterson as the first speaker in its annual Russell A. Blanchard Lecture Series on Friday, Sept. 12, at noon in the Jaguar Student Activities Center Ballroom. Mr. Peterson is senior vice president of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), where he is the William W. Schreyer Chair in Global Analysis and director of the CSIS Global Strategy Institute.

He will discuss the Seven Revolutions, an initiative that explores how global trends will affect the world by 2025, and which promotes strategic thinking and long-term planning by identifying and analyzing the seven “revolutionary” areas of change. Mr. Peterson identifies the seven areas as population, resource management, technology innovation and diffusion, information and knowledge creation and dissemination, economic integration, conflict, and governance, and he says that each embodies promise and peril.

“He is a world class speaker on globalization and world trends,” says Marc D. Miller, dean of the Hull College of Business. “He gives a fantastic talk; people will go away with a ‘wow’ factor after they hear him speak.”

The author of several publications, Mr. Peterson is completing a book on global strategic trends and their effects on governance structures in societies across the world. He recently contributed a chapter entitled “Scanning the More Distant Future” to the book For the Common Good: The Ethics of Leadership in the 21st Century. He has made presentations in 14 countries.

Mr. Peterson received his bachelor’s degree from Colby College, a master’s degree in international finance from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and a master’s degree in international law and economics from the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. He holds the Certificate of Eastern European Studies from the University of Fribourg in Switzerland and the Certificate in International Legal Studies from The Hague Academy of International Law in the Netherlands.

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The Russell A. Blanchard Speaker Series honors a 1928 alumnus who was a lifelong supporter of ASU. He received the university’s highest honor, an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters, and twice he received the prestigious President’s Award. He founded the ASU Foundation and served as one of its trustees until 2005. He also was a civic and financial leader in Augusta.

For more information, call the Hull College of Business at 706-737-1560.

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