Peter McKiernan is Professor of Management at the University of Strathclyde, Scotland and Dean of the School of Management and Governance at Murdoch University in Australia. He has been engaged with foresight activities since the 1970s, specialising in econometric forecasting and then, from 1988, in scenario planning, when the University of St Andrews partnered Shell executives in setting up the St Andrews Management Institute (SAMI). Peter was Chief Executive of SAMI during the 1990s, as it continued to spread scenario planning techniques across UK public and private sectors. Since then, Peter has led numerous scenario projects across the globe, including the Scenarios for Scotland (in preparation for devolution in 1998) and more recently for the the States of Jersey, the Shetland Islands, the City of Edinburgh, the Counties of Fife, Stirling and Grampian, the Scottish Futures Forum, the North East of England, TWR (Germany), the St John of God HealthCare Group (Australia) and Southern Cross Care (Australia). He teaches scenario planning at the prestigious Strathclyde Business School and at its many international locations.
Peter is a Fellow of the British Academy of Management, a past President and a recipient of its Life Time Achievement Award; a Fellow of the European Academy of Management and a Past President; he holds Fellowships from the Academy of Social Sciences, the Governance Institute of Australia and the Chartered Institute of Secretaries and Administrators and a Companionship of the Association of Business Schools.