Future Fridays

Pharos Futures Research Group

Future Fridays is a podcast about, yes, the future - and the tools we can use to engage in foresight, work with the future and learn faster. pharosfutures.substack.com

Episodes

  1. Future Fridays - season 1 ep 2: The Scenario Interview

    11/14/2025

    Future Fridays - season 1 ep 2: The Scenario Interview

    In this episode we continue discussing the future, but this time around we also offer a fascinating interview with Cho Khong, who let’s us in on his experiences from Shell — and there is a lot to learn there! More about our interviewee below: Cho-Oon Khong is a scenarios practitioner and geopolitical analyst, who focuses on using scenarios in thinking through political futures He has led, advised and participated in scenario projects with international organisations, governments, universities, research institutes and business companies from across the world. He teaches as a core faculty member on the Oxford Scenarios Programme, has guest lectured on scenarios, politics and geopolitics at a range of universities, and has served in advisory positions on a variety of academic bodies. Cho has over 27 years’ experience advising on political trends and political risk for the Shell Group, where he was Chief Political Analyst and a senior member of the Shell scenarios team. He led Shell’s external environment assessments for country and regional strategy reviews, and advised, designed and led focused in-depth scenario projects on a range of topics of strategic business significance for key decision makers. Cho also took a leading role in developing Shell’s Global Long Term Energy Scenarios from the mid-1990s to 2021. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit pharosfutures.substack.com

    54 min

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Future Fridays is a podcast about, yes, the future - and the tools we can use to engage in foresight, work with the future and learn faster. pharosfutures.substack.com