At LifeCourse, we combine our generational perspective with expertise in demography and public policy to offer policy experts deeper insight into long-term geopolitical trends-and to help corporate clients understand and foresee long-term market trends.

We helped Hewlett Packard target their overseas youth market by analyzing how Milllennials use technology and envision their future in ten Asian and European countries. Penta, a large investment firm in the Czech Republic, asked us to conduct both a demographic and generational forecast of Central Europe over the next 20 years. Our custom report gave Penta the tools to design a strategic plan for buying businesses it intended to resell ten to twenty years in the future.

LifeCourse president and co-founder Neil Howe is a senior associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He helps direct the CSIS Global Aging Initiative, a research program that explores the economic, social, and geopolitical implications of the demographic aging in America and around the world. Howe recently coauthored with Richard Jackson The Graying of the Great Powers: Demographics and Geopolitics in the 21st Century (CSIS; 2008), which is the first comprehensive assessment of the security threats posed by "global aging."

Howe has a longstanding focus on demographic change and its impact on social policy, fiscal policy, and global financial markets. In 1989, he coauthored On Borrowed Time (Simon & Schuster; 1989) with Peter G. Peterson , a pioneering call for budgetary reform based on generational equity. The book received wide acclaim and was reissued in 2004 by Transactions Publishers. For many years, as a policy advisor to the Blackstone Group, he helped Peterson research and write about the politics and economics of entitlement growth. Howe has authored numerous other policy studies, including Long-Term Immigration Projection Methods: Current Practice and How to Improve It (CSIS; 2006); The Graying of the Middle Kingdom: The Demographics and Economics of Retirement Policy in China (CSIS/Prudential Financial; 2004); and The CSIS Aging Vulnerability Index (CSIS/Watson Wyatt Worldwide; 2003).

Howe is a senior policy advisor to the Concord Coalition and editor of their "Facing Facts" newsletter on entitlements and long-term fiscal policy. He speaks often to policy experts at nonprofit institutes, U.S. military and intelligence agencies, and the United Nations about the impacts of demography and global aging. He has participated in national retirement policy conferences in Beijing, Seoul, Frankfurt, and Washington, DC.