Alison Sander serves as the Director of BCG’s Center for Sensing and Mining the Future (CSMF) and brings more than 25 years’ experience working with senior teams on complex challenges. The Center develops BCG’s global Megatrend databases and provides guidance to companies and organizations seeking to better understand trends that will shape their future.

Alison has designed significant growth strategies for clients across many sectors and has used Megatrends to help clients form powerful visions and to find the next areas of growth. The Center tracks more than 100 trends that cut across the latest technological developments, demographic shifts, industrial shifts, economic requirements, environmental shifts, and consumer shifts, among others. BCG's Megatrend knowledge has been used by more than 1,500 organizations.

Alison has an MBA from Harvard Business School, a JD from Harvard Law School, and a BA in political science with honors from the University of Chicago. Prior to BCG Alison gained experience at Cambridge Transnational Associates (Founder & CEO), and Goldman Sachs. Alison served for 11 years on the Board of the World Resources Institute (www.wri.org) among other organizations.