An award winning Futurist and Trends Forecaster, Ben is the Futures Editor at Leo Burnett Advertising Agency in London. Most recently Ben has produced one of youtube's fastest climbing videos - his future of marketing predictions, which has received over 5,000 views in just 4 weeks.

Ben is a regular media commentator and has just recorded a podcast for the Wall Street Journal in which he describes the role of futures in advertising.

At Leo Burnett Ben heads up the Futures and Trends Team.

The team uses foresight to develop creative strategies that; position clients ahead of market, drive the insight and thought leadership function of the planning department and position the agency as a global thought leader in the wider world.

Despite being known as the 'Young Futurist' (most of his peers are over 40 years old), over the years Ben has also managed to run his own consultancy in Asia-Pacific, been a consultant to the National Geographic series Future Matters, written a national newspaper column, been awarded an IPA Best Practice award, written the soundtrack to a Crime Stoppers campaign and been a DJ at The Ministry of Sound.

Ben has worked with numerous high profile clients including IBM, Microsoft, BBC, McDonalds, Marks and Spencer and Channel 4 amongst others. For more information on past clients, projects, press and presentations go to:

www.benhourahine.com

You can also read Ben's blog here:

www.thefuturesblog.com