José Ramos holds a doctorate from Queensland University of Technology in critical globalization studies, winning their award for outstanding doctoral thesis. He has published over 70 articles, chapters and papers and focuses his research on the experiments and prefigurative innovations we need to navigate the Epic Times we live in. He has lectured at a number of universities over the past 15 years, and has recently established the Futures Lab Academy as a hub for delivering educational programs which twine and align inner and outer social change, such as the Mutant Futures Program. His boutique practice Action Foresight has worked with dozens of governments, agencies and communities in over 20 countries. He has recently cofounded a co-op, the Participatory Futures Global Swarm, to amplify the use of participatory futures around the world to intervene in and to influence the public imagination of the future. He is co-editor of the peer reviewed Journal of Futures Studies. His recent books include the Cosmolocal Reader, an anthology of case studies and essays exploring approaches to planetary mutualization and distributed production; Infectious Futures, an anthology of essays exploring the divergent futures brought forth by Covid-19 and future pandemics; and soon to be published Planetary Cities, an anthology that explores the futures of the city in the context of a planetary era. He works with a world-wide ecosystem of friends and colleagues from many walks of life, attempting to the best of his ability to rise to the challenges presented by our world.