Public Interventions
Keynote
2023 Digitally Engaged Learning Summit (University of the Arts London, Parsons New School, Penn State College of Arts & Architecture, Texas State University), Realities and Futures.
Conjectural Futures (a Normals, Deutsche Bahn and Evonik event), 17 November 2022
TED
TEDxIxelles, What changes matter to us the most?, 18 December 2021, TED speaker
TEDxTours, Le futur n’est pas un problème, 26 October 2021, TED speaker
MCs
World Futures Studies Federation, 50th anniversary, 2023, Master of Ceremonies.
UNESCO, Futures Literacy Summit, 8-12 December 2020, Plenary MC & Organiser for 9,000+ attendees
Panel Discussions (excerpt since 2020)
Futuribles/Pluralité, Futurs vus d’Afrique, 19 January 2026.
Decolonial 20 (D20), Governance after Empire, Johannesburg/online, 19 November 2025.
GIZ, Don’t assume our needs (Syrians reowning their futures and the Capacity to Decolonize), 1 February 2024.
Dubai Future Forum, Futures, gender & development in Sierra Leone, 2023.
Zeppelin University, Transcultural Futures, 10 November 2022, Panelist for the Futures Literacy session
French Development Agency (AFD), 13 May 2022, Panelist for AFD Innovation Spring
Bristol Digital Futures Institute, 19 January 2022, Panelist
World Bank ITS Technology Innovation Lab, Rethinking our Use of the Future to Promote Development: The Need for Systematic Conversations on Futures (Literacy), 14 December 2021, Panelist
Stanford Design School (d.school), Futures and the Appreciation of Otherness, the Future We Keep, the Future We Share, 24 June 2021. Lead guest speaker
Université de Lomé (Togo), Etats généraux de l'eco (a new currency for West Africa), 28 May 2021, Panelist advocating for the central role of culture in the future of currency and regional development
UN Office for Africa, Human Capital: culture and heritage unleashing the potential, 20 May 2021. Panelist
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands, Futures Literacy, Decolonisation & Youth, 2 November 2020, Guest speaker
Royal Society of Arts, Realising the Value of Futures and Foresight, 30 October 2020, Panelist and Report Source
Kabakoo, Accelerating Post-Covid19 Resilience for Malian Youth, 23-25 October 2020, Mentor & Speaker
OECD / Government Foresight Committee, Inclusive Futures, 13 October 2020, Conference speaker
University of Zurich, Disputed Memories of Slavery - Colloquium, 10 October 2020, Conference speaker ‘Memories of the Wounds of Slavery, Race and the Fear of the Demise of the French Republic’
ICLEI, Challenging African urban visions - using futures literacy to reimagine our cities, 8 September 2020, Speaker
UN DCO & UN DPPA, The Use of Futures by UN Regional Coordination Offices, 30 June 2020, Guest speaker
FFWD, Global Foresight Summit, 9-11 April 2020, Online conference, Guest speaker on Futures Literacy
ICESCO, The Forum of the Future, 17-18 February 2020, Rabat (Morocco), Guest Speaker on Futures Literacy for Decolonial Futures
FORIM, Prevention & Crisis management here and there: What Roles for the Diaspora, 10 November 2018, Paris (France), Guest speaker
Event Curation
Decolonial Comparative Law and the Informal/Formal economy, 2027, Douala, Cameroon
Decolonial Comparative Property Law, 2024, Salvador and Brasilia, Brazil
Decolonial summer school, 2023, Hamburg, Germany
UNESCO Global Futures Literacy Summit, online for 7,900 people (largest UNESCO event online), December 8-12, 2020
African Union Pre-Summit on Gender, Addis Ababa (Ethiopia), 18-20 January 2016
Paris Model African Union, Paris (France), June 3-7, 2015