Victoria Mulligan
Futurist, Organisational Designer and Keynote Speaker
Victoria is a global strategic foresight practitioner helping governments, businesses and purpose-led organisations thrive in uncertainty. She has presented at the UN General Assembly and works across five continents on risk, resilience and systems change. Founder of the Aotearoa Futures Network, she equips leaders to anticipate disruption and design futures that work for people and planet.
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Victoria is an internationally recognised strategic foresight practitioner working across commercial, for-purpose and government sectors. She applies rigorous, evidence-based and methodological futures thinking to help organisations navigate uncertainty, anticipate risk and design strategies that are resilient, adaptive and fit for a rapidly changing world.
An advisory board member of the Global Futures Society (Dubai), Victoria is deeply engaged in global futures networks. She is part of the Wellbeing Economy Alliance (WEAll) global movement and serves on the steering committee for WEAll Aotearoa (NZ). She contributes to the Journal of Future Studies and acts as guest editor and reviewer for the World Futures Review. In 2025, she will serve as a judge for the Dubai Future Experts Programme.
Victoria has presented internationally, including at Kyoto University, the 2024 United Nations General Assembly and the Dubai Future Forum. She is also a member of the School of International Futures (UK) Global Pledge Network.
She is the founder of the Aotearoa Futures Network and co-founder and Director of Design Futures Aotearoa. As a foresight associate at ThinkPlace and host of The Futures Workshop podcast, she interviews the world’s leading futures thinkers about the tools and methodologies shaping tomorrow.
A certified foresight practitioner (TFSX), Victoria has trained with the Institute for the Future in Palo Alto and with UNESCO Chair Professor Sohail Inayatullah at Metafuture. She holds a Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science (Hons) and Master of Science (Psychology) from Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, along with postgraduate diplomas from Deakin University and the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Victoria has worked with governments, corporations and philanthropists across five continents. Her early career in forensic psychology and health policy took her from London to Eswatini and into a decade of leadership across the Pacific, Papua New Guinea and Timor-Leste, where she designed cross-sector strategies and policy initiatives focused on creating futures that work for people and planet.
More recently, she has helped reimagine the future of Aotearoa’s primary industries, guided global insurers and security leaders preparing for emerging risk landscapes, and partnered with policy teams to build internal foresight capability and respond strategically to deep structural drivers of change.
Victoria brings intellectual depth, global perspective and practical application to every engagement, helping leaders move beyond reactive planning toward long-term, systems-based transformation.
Topics
Whether it’s a keynote speech for a conference, a half day workshop for suppliers or a briefing on megatrends for your leadership team, Victoria can create a futures-focused presentation tailored to your industry and audience. Her presentations are evidence-based, deeply human, and full of surprising stories – helping people feel less overwhelmed by the future, and more equipped to shape it.
Victoria has presented to individual companies, industry organisations, trade conferences and professional institutes. Choose from one of her suggested topics below, or co-design a session together.
- Keynote – Navigating the Megatrends Shaping the Next Decade
- Workshop – Think Like a Futurist: Practical Tools for Uncertain Times
- Workshop – Mapping Change with the Futures Wheel
