John and Doris Naisbitt

John Naisbitt

After serving in the U.S. Marine Corps, and after his studies in Utah, Harvard and Cornell, John Naisbitt worked as an executive for IBM and Kodak. In 1963, he went to Washington where he became the assistant secretary of Education to President Kennedy, and special assistant to President Johnson. Since the global success of Megatrends and the 12 books that followed, he has traveled around the globe several times a year and has spoken to almost all the major corporations of the world. He is the recipient of 15 honorary doctorates in the humanities, technology and science.

Naisbitts current focus is on China, which he has been studying and visiting for more than 40 years, first in 1967. A former professor at Nanjing University, he is currently professor at both Nankai University, Yunnan University, Yunnan Normal University and Tianjin University of Finance and Economics. He and his wife divide their time living in Vienna, Austria and in Tianjin, China, where in 2007 they established the Naisbitt China Institute at Tianjin University. Two years later, in 2009, Naisbitt co-authored Chinas Megatrends - The 8 Pillars of a New Society with Doris Naisbitt. The book is has been published in more than 15 countries and is a bestseller in many of them.

Studied at Harvard, Cornell and Utah Universities

Former executive with IBM and Eastman Kodak

Assistant Secretary of Education to President Kennedy

Special Assistant to President Johnson

Former visiting fellow at Harvard University, visiting professor at Moscow State University, and faculty member at the Nanjing University in China

Distinguished International Fellow, Institute of Strategic and International Studies (ISIS), Malaysia -- the first non-Asian to hold this appointment

Recipient of 15 honorary doctorates in the humanities, technology and science

Visiting Professor at Nankai University

Visiting Professor of Tianjin University of Finance and Economics

Visiting Professor of Yunnan Normal University

Chairman of Naisbitt China Institute Tianjin

Doris Naisbitt

Doris Naisbitt, an observer of global social, economic and political trends, is the director of the Naisbitt China Institute in Tianjin, China and co-author of the bestseller Megatrends China: Eight Pillars of a New Society, co-author of The China Model and author of Mai-Lin My China (published by CITIC in October 2010) She holds 5 honorary professorships in China, among them prestigious Nankai and Yunnan University..

Naisbitt has a distinguished career in publishing, serving as head of the Austrian publishing houses, Signum Verlag and Austria Press. During her tenure she upgraded the company by acquiring internationally known authors and establishing Signum as a player in the broader German Language market, including Germany and Switzerland.

Among Naisbitts first new authors was John Naisbitt, whose book, Megatrends Asia, published 1995, became a bestseller in Austria, Germany and Switzerland, under the Signum imprint. From 2002 to 2006, she worked in close collaboration with John Naisbitts public lecturing in editing and translating his books and other works for the German publishing houses of Hanser, Bertelsmann and Frankfurter Allgemeine Buchverlag.

Other international authors Naisbitt has brought to the German language market include Peter Senge, the author of the world-acclaimed Fifth Discipline and Don Tapscott, author of the ground breaking new book, Wikinomics. Naisbitt entered the publishing world at the age of 39, after working in the production of television documentaries for Walter Davy, an award-winning director.

Naisbitt studied fashion and theatre in Vienna at the acclaimed Academy of Performing Arts under the tutelage of Susi Nicoletti and Pula Wessely, two of Austrias most famous actresses. She and John Naisbitt live in Vienna, Austria and Tianjin, China.