Ivan Klinec

Ivan Klinec (born May 13, 1961) is a Slovak economist, forecaster and futurist. He lives in Bratislava, the capital of the Slovak Republic.

Klinec has worked at the Slovak Academy of Sciences since 1986, first at the Institute for Economics until 1989, and then at the Institute for Forecasting. He is a chairman of the Futurological Society in Slovakia, and a member of the World Future Society and the World Transhumanist Association.

From the year 1997 he has participated in the activities of the largest world futures study, The Millennium Project. He is co-chair of the project's Central-European node, and chair of the Slovak subnode. He is also a member of the Club of Rome, and the Civic Futurological Society in Prague.

He has published several books and more than 300 specialized and popular publications. He is the author of the holistic theory of economics, and has designed several sets of long-term scenarios, including Slovakia 2030 - Scenarios for the Information Society; Slovakia - EU 2025 - Integration Scenarios, and Euro 2025 - Scenarios of Transition of Slovakia to Euro.

He is the co-author of government strategy of sustainable development for Slovakia, coordinated by the United Nations Development Program and the Regional Environment Center in Slovakia.

• On the Threshold of the Third Wave Civilisation - Futurological Reflexions 1991-2002 - (2003)
• Informatisation of Economic Objects in the Information Society - co-author (2005)
• Green Thinking, Green Future. Alternative Economic and Social Theories Supporting Direction Towards Sustainable Development - (2005)
• Future Worlds, Future Spaces. Introduction to Futurology and Futures Studies - (2005)