Edward Quevedo

Edward Quevedo is Professor of Practice in The School of Complex Adaptive Systems (SCAS), within the College of Global Futures.  He also holds an appointment to ASU's Decision Theater. 

He teaches courses in indigenous governance, wisdom, complexity science, foresight and visioning, and whole systems dynamics.  In addition to his ASU responsibilities, Edward directs the Regenerative Design Program within The Foresight Lab, a diplomacy and culture transformation creative agency composed of educators, policy innovators, international diplomats, social entrepreneurs, sustainability practitioners, and non-profit leaders working together to build the New Regenerative Economy. 

A researcher, professor, and diplomat, Edward’s work has spanned the globe finding solutions to human society’s most wickedly complex social, ecological, and economic challenges. Using the tools of systemics, regenerative statecraft, and complexity science, his work at ASU and within The Foresight Lab brings the practice of peace, truth, and reconciliation to communities throughout Africa, the Americas, and Asia.  His professional calling is to labor to reintroduce humanity, at scale, to its Indigeneity, and in so doing to build The Regenerative Economy (one which is just, verdant, and inclusive, rather than predatory, extractive, and destructive).   

The Foresight Lab’s operations and impact have reached across the globe through its Bureaus in The Americas and Europe.  This reach now extends to SCAS, relying on The Lab's formal alliance with Designworks, A BMW Group Company,  Designworks is BMW Group’s wholly owned design, engineering, and innovation house, employing 184 designers, stylists, engineers, and graphic artists across bureaus in Munich, Los Angeles, and Shanghai.  Through this alliance, and working with BMW Group AG and The BMW Foundation (The Herbert Quandt Stiftung), The Foresight Lab deploys cultural transformation and civil rights commissions at scale around the world.

Edward’s work includes guiding and advising some of the world’s most iconic and respected companies, philanthropies, institutions of higher learning, and civil society organizations.  These include: Genentech, Inc., BMW Group AG, Mercedes-Benz USA, Inc., E&J Gallo Wineries, Suez Environnment Cie., Fetzer Vineyards, RaboBank, Royal Bank of Scotland, and Barclays Bank; The Universities of California, South Carolina, and Wisconsin, and Tulane University; Omidyar Network, The Open Society Foundations, The World Bank, The United Nations Development Program; Kiss The Ground, The Institute for Educational Leadership, The Fair Food Network, Kiss the Ground, Edutopia (The George Lucas Educational Foundation); the Ministries of Environment and Spatial Planning in the Kingdom of The Netherlands, and Bavaria, Germany; the Province of British Columbia; the National Governments of Kenya and Namibia; and the Cities of London, Singapore, Amsterdam, Austin (TX), Lowell (MA), Santa Cruz, Capitola, Novato (CA), and Fort Collins (CO), amongst many others.

Edward is also a civil rights attorney and adept social justice practitioner, and has in those capacities repeatedly been called upon to lead healing interventions in communities riven by predatory police killings.  He has led these regenerative justice efforts in Ferguson, MO, Charleston, SC, Philadelphia, PA, Atlanta, GA, and Baltimore, MD, Minneapolis, MN, and Atlanta, GA, among many other communities.  This work encompasses reimagining policing and public safety, transforming policing psychology, police/community relations, deployment frameworks, budgeting models, police academy curricula, and intervention models to shift from a Warriors to a Guardian mindset.  The Lab has also ideated, designed, and led the implementation of Community-Led Policing Oversight Boards in over 20 cities across North America and Europe.

Edward holds the A.B. in Philosophy from UCLA, and the Juris Doctor from U.C. Berkeley’s Boalt Hall School of Law and the Boalt Hall Program in Jurisprudence and Social Policy. He is admitted to practice law in California and before the European Court of Justice. 

Edward divides his time between the Tempe Campus of ASU and Northern California.  He continues to learn from his Partner, Jenniffer, and  from his children and the local communities he is privileged to serve.