Andrew Blau

Andrew is co-president of Global Business Network and a partner of the Monitor Group. A senior scenario practitioner since 2000, he has led dozens of GBN projects and workshops with executives at leading corporations and public sector agencies. Andrew joined GBN after more than 15 years analyzing the uses, organizational impacts, and public policy issues raised by the internet, telecommunications networks, and digital technologies, which remain a focal area of his scenario work. He is the author of Deep Focus, a GBN study of the forces reorganizing the media landscape, and co-author of Looking Out for the Future: An Orientation for 21st Century Philanthropists and numerous essays about trends shaping the social sector. In 2003, he designed and led a GBN program on social network theory and its applicability to innovation strategy. More recently, he has been working with one of the U.S.’s largest foundations to explore how social network theory could shape the future of philanthropy.

Andrew has testified before Congress about developments in media and telecommunications, led the development of a White House summit on those topics, and published and lectured internationally. In 1998, the U.S. National Academy of Sciences appointed Andrew to its committee on the future of the internet. He is the president of the board of directors of WITNESS, an international human rights organization founded by musician Peter Gabriel, and has served in leadership roles in a number of nonprofits, including as chairman of the Urban Libraries Council, the membership group of America's largest public libraries. He also sits on the advisory board of the Hybrid Vigor Institute, which promotes cross-disciplinary research in the sciences.