Professor Toni Ahlqvist is Research Director of Futures Research at the Finland Futures Research Centre, University of Turku. He is an Adjunct Professor of Economic Geography and Technological Transformations at the University of Turku.

Toni Ahlqvist is a Professor and Research Director of Futures Research at the Finland Futures Research Centre, Turku School of Economics, University of Turku. His research focuses on futures studies, strategic foresight, spatial planning, and spatial political economy. He has led numerous research projects that have covered, e.g., construction and use of futures knowledge in organizations and regions, societal antagonisms of emerging technologies, future generations in law-making, and futures of various industrial domains, such as game industry, maritime logistics, pharmaceutical industry and forest industry. He has published in such scientific journals as Technological Forecasting & Social Change, Futures, International Journal of Urban & Regional Research, Antipode, New Political Economy, Geopolitics, Geografiska Annaler A, Space & Polity, Technology Analysis & Strategic Management, European Planning Studies, Foresight, Journal of Futures Studies, Fennia and Science & Public Policy.