Douglass Carmichael is a consultant on Strategy for INET. Started physics at Caltech, PhD from Berkeley in human development, post doc of Harvard’s Center for Cognitive Studies and lived in Mexico City while studying at Eric Fromm’s Institute for psychoanalysis. Professor at University of California at Santa Cruz then lived in Washington DC for many years continuing private practice, strategic consulting with many organizations including the Hewlett-Packard, World Bank, Bell laboratories, The White House and the State Department and ran the network for Al Gore’s Reinventing government. For the last ten years has focused on the broad social science issues relevant to rethinking humanity’s relationship to nature. Lives on the Russian River and spends two days a week in Palo Alto leading two seminars on strategic conversations. Started the Stanford Strategy Studio and is most interested in the relationship between the humanities and economics. Member of the American Anthropology Association.
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