About the author

Graham Leicester is Director of the International Futures Forum. IFF seeks out difficult, complex, seemingly intractable issues and works to support businesses, governments and communities in addressing them more effectively.

Project work focuses on the areas of health, learning, enterprise and governance. Graham previously established and ran Scotland’s leading think tank, the Scottish Council Foundation.

He served 11 years as a diplomat in HM Diplomatic Service, specialising in China and the EU and was senior research fellow with the Constitution Unit at University College London. He has also worked as a freelance cellist, including with the BBC Concert Orchestra.

He is married with two children and lives in St Andrews, Scotland.