Henrik von Scheel

Henrick von Scheel (born 1969) is a Danish futurist and researcher.

Biography Von Scheel was born in 1969 in Denmark.

Von Scheel first gained continental attention in 2009 when he joined an advisory group to the German Federal Ministry of Economics & Technology that drafted what became the country’s Digitale Agenda; the European Commission later embedded much of that agenda in its Europe 2020 programme.

He was appointed Professor at the UWI Arthur Lok Jack Global School of Business, Trinidad and Tobago, in 2021, where the school credits his career-long “research in strategy management and futures studies.”

Awards and recognition In 2019, the Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Knowledge Award jury in Dubai honoured von Scheel as “Pioneer of Industry 4.0 and the Global Digital Revolution,” citing the worldwide application of his competitiveness frameworks.