On 8-9 January 2004, the inauguration meeting of the Advisory Board took place at the Swiss Re Center for Global Dialogue in Rüschlikon/Switzerland.
From left to right: Johan Peter Paludan (Copenhagen Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies, Denmark), Prof. Dr. Peter Bishop (guest of the Advisory Board meeting, Studies of the Future program, University of Houston-Clear Lake, USA), Prof. Dr. Markku Wilenius (Finland Futures Research Centre Turku School of Economics and Business Administration, Finland), Dr. Wendy Schultz (Infinite Futures, United Kingdom), Prof. Dr. Erik Westholm (Swedish Institute for Futures Studies, Sweden), Vincenza Trivigno (Interpharma, Switzerland), Dr. Felix Addor (Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property, Switzerland), Dr. Rolf Tanner (vice president of the European Futurists Conference Lucerne, Swiss Re, Switzerland), Georges T. Roos (managing director of the European Futurists Conference Lucerne, ROOS Office for Cultural Innovation, Switzerland), Pero Micic (president of the European Futurists Conference Lucerne, FutureManagementGroup AG, Germany), Dr. Arthur Einsele (Internutrition, Switzerland), Prof. Dr. Erzsébet Nováky (vice president of the European Futurists Conference Lucerne, Futures Studies Department Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary), Dr. Christian Lutz (Zukunftsstudien - Etudes Prospectives - Prospective Studies, Switzerland), Prof. Dr. Lorenz Hilty (EMPA, Switzerland), Dr. Andreas Heigl (GlaxoSmithKline, Germany), Dr. Pierre-Alain Schieb (OECD Advisory Unit on Multidisciplinary Issues – International Futures Program, France), Réka Várnagy (guest of the Advisory Board meeting, Futures Studies Department Corvinus University of Budapest).
Missing on the picture: Dr. Manfred Bötsch (Swiss Federal Office for Agriculture, Switzerland), Matthias Horx (Zukunftsinstitut Mathias Horx, Austria), Hugues de Jouvenel (Futuribles Group Paris, France), Prof. Dr. Horst Opaschowski (University of Hamburg, BAT Freizeit-Forschungsinstitut, Germany), Doris Sibum (Deutsche Post World Net, Germany), Dr. Karlheinz Steinmüller (Z-Punkt GmbH - The Foresight Company, Germany), Rohit Talwar (Fast Future, United Kingdom).