Carin Ism

Executive Leadership Program - Amsterdam Class 11

Carin Ism
Director of Future of Governance Expedition
at Bitnation
My experience and deep interests:
I am based in: Amsterdam
THNK connection: THNKer , Executive Leadership Program - Amsterdam Class 11
I am the founder of the Future of Governance Agency (FOGA). The agency brings governance innovation and power literacy to the public and its institutions. FOGA conducts research and provides communication services to ideators – as well as packages of ideas to those positioned to advocate and implement the governance systems of tomorrow. I am the co-author of “How to Rule a World – a guide to the established an emerging tools for power and governance in the 21st century” to be released at the end of 2020.

I lead the group developing the Paris Score – a new layer of compliance to the Paris Agreement based on a transactional data model. The development of this started during my time as a research director for Bitnation, exploring blockchain jurisdictions and how distributed systems, for holding registers and enforcing agreements can be utilized. I belong to the faculty of Singularity University’s Nordic Branch and teach in two subjects: Distributed Ledger Technology (blockchains) and Governance.

I am the principal investigator of the first governance study in a Mars simulation. As a part of this, I spent September of 2019 in the Himalayas, living at 14,000 feet in an isolated, confined, and extreme environment with a crew to develop design principles for space societies. I am also the project lead of a comprehensive literature review of all that has ever been written on the topic of Mars governance. I am the chair of Effective Altruism‘s Swedish branch, which works to promote long-termism and effectiveness in policy, foreign aid, and philanthropy.

Previous to this, I was the Executive Director of the Global Challenges Foundation and led the inception and development of the New Shape Prize – the largest prize competition in the social sciences to date. $5M were awarded to the best ideas that reenvision global governance, which had more than 14,000 teams from more than 180 countries working on ideas, resulting in over 2,700 proposals. I am the recipient of the 2019 Joseph Jaworski Next Generation Foresight Practitioners Award in International Policy.