Elisabet Sahtouris, Ph.D. is an evolution biologist, futurist, author, speaker and consultant on Living Systems Design. Showing the relevance of evolving biological systems to organizational design, she travels as a speaker in North, Central and South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia and New Zealand. She makes television and radio appearances in addition to live speeches and workshops.

Her books include:

A Walk Through TIme: from Stardust to Us

Biology Revisioned, co-authored with Willis Harman

EarthDance: Living Systems in Evolution.

Dr. Sahtouris is a citizen of the United States and of Greece, with a Canadian Ph.D. She did her post-doctoral work at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, taught at the University of Massachusetts and M.I.T., was a science writer for the HORIZON/ NOVA TV series. She was invited to China by the Chinese National Science Association, organized Earth Celebrations 2000 in Athens, Greece and has been a United Nations consultant on indigenous peoples. She is a participant in the Humanity 3000 dialogues of the Foundation for the Future, the Synthesis Dialogues with the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala, and consults with corporations and government organizations in Australia, Brazil and the USA.

Living Systems, the Internet and the Human Future

What can we learn from nature's self-organizing systems in evolution over billions of years that will help us insure our human future? Elisabet Sahtouris explores the viability of human organizations such as businesses and governments, as well as the phenomenon of the Internet to see what works and what doesn't.