Lydia Caldana
ALAF - Associação Latina de Futuros | Future Resources | Foresight, Urban Policy & Strategy
Lydia Caldana is a foresight strategist who creates fairer futures in the present. With 10+ years of experience in futures-making in both private and public sectors, Lydia identifies emerging behaviors and technologies that guide macro shifts in society to help institutions navigate change in sustainable ways.
Her Global South perspective and Global North experience equip her with key systemic, strategic, research, analytical and forecasting skills that apply to organizations ranging from UN-Habitat to Google, Lisbon City Hall, Nike, Unilever, Spotify, among others. She holds an MA in Liberal Studies at The New School, specializing in Gender and Sexuality Studies and Global Urban Futures.
In addition, Lydia is president at ALAF - Latin Futures Association, a non-profit NGO that wants to transform LATAM in a region that is protagonist in leading foresight debates and actions. She has other self-started projects, including Future Resources (a platform to democratize access to foresight and promote diversity in the industry), Future Days (co-founded; an actionable futures festival with participatory foresight at the core), and Femmetopia (a speculative design project with artist Maria Clara Pessoa that imagines a world built by women through generative AI images).
