Our Team
None of these global challenges are easy, but they’re all solvable. Our growing team welcomes new perspectives from creative individuals who are dedicated to improving the human future. We hope you’ll join our efforts.
Carl O. Pabo
Ph.D., Founder and President
Dr. Pabo had a successful career in biophysics before resigning a tenured faculty position at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to analyze thought and find better ways of addressing these global challenges. In recent years, he has focused on the challenge of climate change, and now is using his new tools for thought to help analyze the prospects for climate engineering.
Jeff Ubois
Board of Directors
Jeff Ubois has been a program officer at the MacArthur Foundation, and now is Vice President, Knowledge Management, at their affiliated “Lever for Change” program. He brings deep knowledge of the philanthropic and nonprofit communities, and he’s spent years exploring the challenges inherent in long-term prediction and long-term planning as needed to help ensure a livable human future.
Gurpreet Singh
Board of Directors
As an analyst at the Skoll Foundation, Gurpreet Singh studies the world's most pressing problems, and evaluates strategies for system-level change. After working with various public and non-profit institutions, he maintains a passionate commitment to this public service sector, yet he challenges current practices and norms. He hopes for, and works toward, ways of coordinating effort at a scale commensurate with the true magnitude of these global challenges.
Melissa Flagg
Ph.D., Board of Advisors
Dr. Melissa Flagg is an advisor/fellow at the Atlantic Council GeoTech Center, the Perry World House, and the Acquisition Innovation Research Center, and is the founder of Flagg Consulting LLC. Previous positions have focused on U.S. science and technology policy and national security. She has developed remarkable skills in organizational leadership — working at senior levels in government, philanthropy, and the private sector. She brings great breadth of vision, challenging organizations to adapt to a changing global landscape of science, technology, education, and economic competition.
Eric Pabo
Board of Advisors
Eric Pabo has a deep interest in the processes and logic of decision making, troubleshooting, and problem resolution; he developed these skills during a ~40-year career at Eastman Kodak, Hewlett-Packard, Agilent Technologies, and EVGroup. He brings to Humanity 2050: a broad base in science and technology, a deep interest in and understanding of human behavior and history, broad international experience, strong communication skills, and a passion for multi-frame, logical analysis.
J. Ken Patterson
Ph.D., Board of Advisors
Dr. Ken Patterson has had a career that focused on developing clear, powerful, actionable strategies amidst the immense multi-level complexities of silicon technology physics and process development — working at Tektronix, Hewlett-Packard, Agilent, and Broadcom. He now shifts scale, bringing his wide-ranging curiosity, his ability to orient and navigate amidst complexity, and his impressive analytic and logical skills to help in developing practical plans that will allow humanity to better address the challenges of the Anthropocene.
Aditya Rajagopal
Ph.D., Board of Advisors
Dr. Aditya Rajagopal is the Founder and Chief Technical Officer of ChromaCode, a precision medicine diagnostics company working to reduce costs and thus give broader access to clinical tests. He is also a visiting faculty member at the California Institute of Technology, where he works on novel physical/mathematical strategies that—simultaneously—give more information while simplifying and streamlining the methods of measurement.