12 Facts About Duane Elgin

Duane Elgin was born on 1943 and is an American author, speaker, educator, consultant, and media activist.

Duane Elgin attended the Sorbonne in Paris for one semester in 1963 and earned a Bachelor of Arts from the College of Idaho in 1966.

Duane Elgin received a Master of Business Administration from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1968 and a Master of Arts in economic history from the University of Pennsylvania in 1969.

Duane Elgin moved to California, where he worked as a senior social scientist with the "futures group" at the Stanford Research Institute and co-authored studies of the long-range future.

Duane Elgin continues to promote citizen use of mass media for dialogue about the future.

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Duane Elgin has written extensively on themes of media and democracy since the 1980s.

In 2001 Duane Elgin was awarded an honorary PhD for work in "ecological and spiritual transformation" from the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco.

Duane Elgin is a member of the CIIS "Council of Sages".

In 2006 Duane Elgin received the annual Goi International Peace Award in Japan in recognition of his contribution to a global "vision, consciousness, and lifestyle" that fosters a "more sustainable and spiritual culture".

Duane Elgin has been a visiting scholar at Denison University in Ohio in May, 2004 .

Duane Elgin has been a 'distinguished scholar' at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida in 2012 where he spoke to both public and student audiences about our time of "great transition".

Duane Elgin was described in April 2009 by the Ecologist Magazine as one of the ten leading visionaries with "big ideas for a better world".