The Humanitarian Futures Programme (HFP) was initiated in 2004 at King's College, London, as an action research programme in the School of Social Science and Public Policy. HFP has provided futures-oriented reports, studies, evaluations and organizational methodologies and “tools,” to identify, monitor and mitigate ever more complex humanitarian threats.
HFP has worked with a wide range of social and natural scientists, representatives of governments, international and non-governmental organisations, as well as with the private sector to develop means for those with humanitarian roles and responsibilities to meet the challenges of exponentially increasing disasters and emergencies.
The programme director is Dr. Randolph Kent, a former UN Humanitarian Coordinator.
This mission has continued since 2017 as Humanitarian Futures (HF) The strategic and operational objectives and tools provided by HF can apply equally to any sector or organisation concerned with forward thinking, or planning from the future.