Christopher Kent

Christopher Kent is a futurist, writer, researcher, and consultant with 15 years’ experience in global consumer insights. He has advised clients on emerging generational trends and their impact; future consumer technology usage trends; new media challenges in the 21st century; and emerging needs of tourists and travelers.

His client experience covers diverse companies in a wide range of fields, including Nokia, Hasbro, Univision, British Petroleum, Shell, McDonald’s, Johnson Controls, Abbott Nutrition, Carlsberg, Intercontinental Hotel Group, and Honda. As a futurist with Social Technologies (now Innovaro), Christopher wrote more than 80 briefs on global consumer and technology trends.

Christopher Kent is a futurist, writer, researcher, and consultant with 15 years’ experience in global consumer insights.

Previous gigs include Strategic Forecasting (Stratfor), where Christopher directed a team of public policy and geopolitical analysts in analyzing and explicating consumer, government, and social organizations’ behavior. He further advised the company’s Fortune 100 clients (including International Paper, Monsanto, ExxonMobil, and Kraft) on how best to take advantage of these shifting social dynamics. At the public policy research firm Mongoven, Biscoe & Duchin, Christopher served as a consumer and social behavior analyst where his stakeholder analysis focused on how consumers and social groups impact the development of corporate and public policy.

Christopher has a degree in history and English from Marquette University and an MA in medieval and Renaissance history from the University of Toronto. He lives and loves in Washington, DC. You can see what catches his eye daily by following him on Twitter @Cekent.

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