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Frederick S. Pardee
Institute for International Futures
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Partners

Partnering to make long-term change easier to examine.
Pardee works with research, policy, development, and philanthropic partners to examine how today’s choices may shape future outcomes. Through open-source tools, integrated modeling, data development, and scenario-based analysis, we help partners compare plausible futures, test assumptions, and bring longer-term evidence into planning.

Use this page to learn what partnership with Pardee can support, what kinds of organizations we work with, and how to start a conversation.
We support those who need to compare scenarios, assess trade-offs, develop evidence for planning, or understand how structural trends may affect future risks and opportunities.

Who we work with

Pardee partners with organizations that need rigorous, transparent ways to reason over long time horizons, systems, and uncertainty.
International and development agencies
For partners examining long-term development pathways, SDG progress, food security, human development, or regional planning.
Government and policy communities
For teams assessing future risks, capacities, trade-offs, and strategic choices under uncertainty.
Research institutions and academic collaborators
For scholars and technical teams using models, datasets, and scenario methods to study connected systems.
Foundations, nonprofits, and mission-driven organizations
For organizations seeking evidence to support planning, program strategy, public-facing analysis, or long-term learning.
Organizations planning under uncertainty
For people working across sectors who need to reason through systems, time horizons, and uncertainty when evaluating future risks, opportunities, investments, or institutional choices.

Across these audiences, the common thread is the need to examine how assumptions, risks, capacities, and structural trends may interact over time. The next section should explain what Pardee brings to that work.

What we bring to partnership work

Pardee partnerships are strongest when a question requires more than a single dataset, sector, or forecast.

Scenario-based analysis

We help partners compare plausible futures under different assumptions, rather than treating one forecast as a fixed outcome.

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Integrated tools and datasets

Our work draws on International Futures, Diplometrics, and related datasets to examine relationships across human, social, and natural systems.

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Decision-relevant interpretation

We translate model results and data into findings that help partners reason through trade-offs, risks, capacities, and possible pathways.

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This approach matters because partners need evidence they can use, explain, and scrutinize.

Featured partnership examples

Pardee partnerships vary by question and audience, but many involve helping organizations examine future pathways, compare assumptions, or translate analysis into planning-relevant evidence.
Knowledge is AUDA-NEPAD’s prime commodity in its work to catalyze and support implementation of Africa’s Agenda 2063. In that regard, the IFs model and the Frederick S. Pardee Institute for International Futures have been extremely and uniquely valuable with respect to forecasting. Forecasts of different outcomes in differing circumstances have added an important dimension to African Union member states to ensure informed policy and investment choices.
Martin Bwalya
Former Head of the African Union Development Agency Centres of Excellence
For those facing questions about development choices, trade-offs, or plausible pathways or questions about geopolitical relationships, influence, or risk, Pardee can help translate broad goals and concerns into testable assumptions, comparable evidence, and scenario-based analysis.

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