Prof. Gabriele Rizzo, Ph.D., APF, is a visionary futurist and an enthusiastic innovator. He is principal futurist and trusted advisor for United States and NATO, world-class expert (“Member at Large”) for Strategic Foresight and Futures in NATO STO, and chairman of the Future Technology track in NATO ACT Futures Work – an oeuvre framing deep futures out to 2040-2060, to inform $1T worth of Defense planning.

Gabriele also serves as professor of Strategy at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”; visiting professor at NATO Defense College; and as an advisor to the Italian Joint Staff. Prof. Rizzo is one of the few NATO Early Career Nuclear Strategists and one of the just four “Outstanding Stars” among the élite group of NATO Young Disruptors.

He held multiple positions over more than ten years in engineering staff before moving to strategy, where he contributed substantially to strategic visions and long-term thinking of United States, Italy, Switzerland, European Defense Agency, United Nations, NATO, Fortune Global500 industries, and multinational organizations with billion-sized budget. He has more than 40 publications to his credit, authored several capstone works on deep futures and was honored with national and international awards.