To discuss this we have four experts who have all been involved in writing and thinking about this: Prof Jonathan Boston from New Zealand had a Fulbright Fellowship to do comparative research on Governing for the Future; Jaakko Kuosmanen (Finnish Academy) is an expert on the human rights of future generations, and member of the Finnish Government’s Foresight Group; Jill Rutter is an experienced former senior civil servant, having worked in HM Treasury, No 10 and Defra; and Professor Ian Goldin is a former Vice-President of the World Bank, and Director of the Oxford Martin Programme on Technological and Economic Change.