This butterfly is excited to be speaking with Benjamin J Butler. Benjamin J Butler is a former investor and now writer, futurist, and strategist. He has sat on the boards of a number of organizations as an expert on the future including Global Future Council of the World Economic Forum, the Board of Trustees of the American Renewable Energy Institute, International Advisory Board of Athena School of Management, and Futurist at Horasis Global. Benjamin believes humanity is at a turbulent but evolutionary inflection point and perhaps at the dawn of the creation of an ecological civilization. He currently writes a column on future trends on substack called Embassy of the Future. Benjamin started his career on Wall St but has worked out of many financial centers including London, Tokyo, Hong Kong, and Seoul. He worked at Morgan Stanley, Nomura, and UBS, in senior positions where he was a trusted advisor to international investors and Chief Investment Officers; known to be able to discern the larger trends and a prescient forecaster of the future. As a macro style cross-asset investor, he was a fund manager at Edge Capital and also acted as the de facto chief strategist to Blue Sky, one of the most successful hedge funds in the Asia Pacific region. Between 2014 and 2017, he wrote the weekly International Column at Dow Theory Letters with Wall St legend Richard Russell on global trends and investment. Concurrent to his career as an investor then futurist, he has been a devout practitioner of Zen and the Tao, having been based out of Asia for 22 years. In his early twenties, he moved to Japan and learned the Japanese language, culture, and Zen. He read Law at King’s College London, holds a BA in Japanese and Economics from SOAS, University of London, and an MSc in Holistic Science from Schumacher College In this episode, you will hear about the role of the futurist, the global financial crisis in 2007, the values in the decentralization of power, ecological civilization, and more. Some notes… More about 1treellion.org and Benjamin J Butler. To support planting all over the world, please check out this link. The great music is credited to Pixabay.