Philip Franses uses his expertise in holistic thinking and teaching to address global challenges through multistakeholder processes. He studied mathematics at New College, Oxford, and has designed intelligent software for a variety of organizations. Philip is the cofounder of The Flow Partnership, through which he creates platforms for communities to share their knowledge with each other, helping them restore water to its vital place within the cycles of nature.

Philip also teaches holistic science and is the author of Time, Light and the Dice of Creation: Through Paradox in Physics to a New Order.