Carol Dumaine, has over 30 years of experience as a U.S. Intelligence Community analyst with emphasis on strategic and emerging global security issues, including climate change. She created the “Global Futures Partnership” in the early 2000s as an early example of engaging with external, non-government expertise in efforts to improve strategic foresight on unclassified transnational security issues. From 2007-2010, she served as the Deputy Director for Energy and Environmental Security in the Office Of Intelligence and Counterintelligence at the U.S. Department of Energy. She was an early proponent of unclassified alternative futures, or scenarios, and other methods for “rehearsing the future” and boosting both creative and critical thinking.

In 2007, the US Partnership for Public Service recognized Dumaine as a Finalist for the Service-to-America National Security Medal for her leadership in creating the “Global Futures Forum,” a multilateral effort focused on enhancing collective foresight, and creating shared awareness, for dealing effectively with transnational challenges.  In recent years, she has taught an interdisciplinary seminar on the national and global security implications of climate change at The Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington, D.C. She is a co-author with Dr. Irving Mintzer of “Confronting Climate Change and Rethinking Security,” published in the SAIS Review of International Affairs in 2015. Today, as a co-founder of a small company, Immanent Futures, Dumaine is focused on how to achieve anticipatory and resilient readiness in our climate-disrupted world. She is a graduate of Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and holds a Master’s in International Public Policy from Johns Hopkins University’s SAIS.