When he says "this website", Dr Ellyard means this website.)

Dr Peter Ellyard is a futurist and strategist, and chairs the Preferred Futures institute, Preferred Futures Group, the Sustainable Prosperity Foundation and two start up environmental companies.

Dr Ellyard is a former Executive Director for the Australian Commission for the Future.

He has also been a Senior Adviser to the United Nations system for more than 30 years including to the 1992 Earth Summit where he was a senior advisor on both the climate change and the biodiversity conventions. In this he was the only Australian and one of only 20 globally. At other times he has been a senior consultant to the UNEP, UNDP and UNESCO. He is the author of the best selling book Ideas for the New Millennium (1998,2001).

This quirky series explores the origin and significance of a wide varirty of useful inventions. This one presents Esperanto.