Ten Survival Skills for a World in Flux

‘Original and thought provoking: a manifesto for a better way of educating humanity’Gordon Brown

‘Challenging and hopeful: a groundbreaking guide to the future’Valerie Amos

‘This manual for humanity is a call to action for all of us. Read it, learn from it, act aggressively and uncompromisingly upon it, let it guide the rest of your life’s work’General Sir Graeme Lamb, former SAS Commander

‘A scintillating humanifesto for creativity in how we learn. Inspiration not just for parents and teachers, but all of us’Andria Zafirakou, Global Teacher of the Year 2018 and author of Those Who Can, Teach

‘Global education has found a champion. Future generations have found a spokesperson’Andreas Schleicher, OECD

‘A magnificent book! As we (anxiously) anticipate the rest of this century, Tom Fletcher presents us with a brilliantly-timed, incredibly important, gem of a book — overflowing with wisdom and much hope too’Zeid Ra’ad, UN Commissioner for Human Rights

‘An excellent handbook on how to coexist not just with each other, but with technology too’Mustafa Suleyman, Founder of Google DeepMind

‘The international community needed a call to action. This is a must read for the inventors, dreamers and pioneers of our future’Dubai Abulhoul, Founder of the Fiker Institute

‘Brilliant, an absolute must-read. A riveting, superbly written account of the world today, and tomorrow’Matthew D’Ancona, author of Post-Truth

‘A fascinating and inspiring analysis of how the world is changing and education needs to keep up’Rachel Sylvester, The Times

‘His hints, tips, advice, comments and things-you-and-I-can-do-today to bring about change are so frequent that I lost count. Not 10 ideas, not even 57, but countless … A provocative and hugely thoughtful compendium of positive and realistic thinking to navigate an increasingly difficult world’Gavin Esler, The National

Tom Fletcher CMG is a Visiting Professor of International Relations at New York University, and Visiting Professor of Diplomatic Practice at the Emirates Diplomatic Academy. He was British Ambassador to Lebanon (2011-15), and the Downing Street foreign policy adviser to three Prime Ministers, (2007-11). He is an Honorary Fellow of Oxford University, and the Global Strategy Director for the Global Business Coalition for Education, which seeks to harness private sector efforts to get 59 million children into school. He blogs as the Naked Diplomat, and chairs the International Advisory Council of the Creative Industries Federation, promoting Britain’s most dynamic and magnetic sector overseas. Tom is leading a review of British diplomacy for the UK Foreign Office, and a report on the future of the United Nations for the next UN Secretary General. Tom is married to Dr Louise Fletcher, a psychotherapist, and they have two sons.