Clem Sunter - Scenario planner - Futurologist and Keynote Speaker - Johannesburg

In the early 1980s, he established a scenario planning function in Anglo with teams in London and Johannesburg. Two members were Pierre Wack and Ted Newland who previously headed up the scenario planning department at Royal Dutch Shell and then acted as consultants to Anglo for over a decade (after their retirement from Shell). Using material from these teams, Mr. Sunter put together a presentation entitled 'The World and South Africa in the 1990s' which became very popular in South Africa in the mid-1980s.

Clem Sunter

Chairman of the Anglo American Chairman’s Fund (retired), renowned South African scenario planner.

Clem Sunter was born in Suffolk, England on 8th August 1944 and was educated at Winchester College. He went to Oxford where he read Politics, Philosophy and Economics before joining Charter Consolidated as a management trainee in 1966.

In 1971, he moved to Lusaka in Zambia to work for the Anglo American Corporation Central Africa. From there he was transferred in 1973 to the Head Office of Anglo American Corporation of South Africa in Johannesburg. He spent most of his subsequent career in the Gold and Uranium Division, serving as its Chairman and CEO from 1990 to 1996. At the time it was the largest gold producer in the world. He has now retired as the Chairman of the Anglo American Chairman's Fund, which in a recent survey was rated the premier corporate social responsibility fund in South Africa.

Clem Sunter

He was recently awarded an Honourary Doctorate by the University of Cape Town for his work in the field of scenario planning. He was also voted by leading South African CEOs as the speaker who has made the most significant contribution to, and impact on, best practice and business in South Africa. In 2006, he was invited to give a scenario presentation at the Central Party School in Beijing - a rare privilege for a foreigner. He also facilitated sessions on global warming in New Delhi and London.

Since 1987, he has authored 14 books some of which have been bestsellers. His other main interest is seeking to mobilise the private sector in the war against HIV/AIDS.

Clem Sunter is an exceptional speaker, the audience sits enthralled and leaves with a positive energy!

Clem Sunter

The book is a follow-up and a fine-tuning of the authors' number-one bestseller 'The Mind of Fox', published in June 2001. 'The Mind of a Fox' put scenario planning back on the map and in the boardroom (co-author, Chantell Ilbury).

'Games Foxes Play' has taken the basic principles further, challenging the American hedgehog view that only leaders with a fixed, central vision can achieve greatness.  Sunter and Ilbury favour foxes, leaders with a balanced set of beliefs and the ability to adapt to change.

One of the most appealing aspects of this business book is that it doesn't read like a business book. You don't get lost in confusing business jargon, which allows you to concentrate and enjoy the message of the book. 

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Clem Sunter - Scenario planner - Futurologist and Keynote Speaker - Johannesburg