Our Employees:
John Stover
President
John Stover is President and founder of Futures Institute. Previously he was a
Vice President at Futures Group in the Center for Economics and Modeling. He
has over 30 years of experience in assessing population
and health issues in developing countries and in providing technical assistance
in policy analysis and awareness-raising through computer modeling.
Mr. Stover has worked on a variety of policy and service projects including POLICY, RAPID
(Resources for the Awareness of Population Impacts on Development), OPTIONS (for Population
Policy), SOMARC (Social Marketing for Change), the EVALUATION (of Family Planning
Impact) Project, and PASCA (Central America HIV/AIDS Prevention) Project. He has
worked in diverse geographic regions including sub-Saharan Africa, North Africa
and the Middle East, Asia and Latin America. He has developed several important
population and health policy tools including Spectrum, a modular software package
that is used to examine the consequences of current trends and future interventions
in reproductive health and AIDS.
Mr. Stover has published and presented numerous
articles on population and family planning, AIDS modeling, intervention analysis
and demographic impact. He has conducted research on the policy process and is co-author
of The Art of Policy Formulation: Experiences from Africa in Developing National
HIV/AIDS Policies. He has developed a number of evaluation tools such as the Policy
Environment Score, the AIDS Program Effort Index, and the Survey of Coverage of
Essential HIV/AIDS Services.
Mr. Stover has remarkable experience in presenting
population, health and development information to high-level policy makers, including
to a number of national leaders. He has provided assistance to programs in numerous
countries, where policy presentation teams have used computer-based presentations
successfully to reach thousands of individuals from national and local governments,
NGOs and other community leaders.
Mr. Stover earned a master’s degree in long-range
planning from Campus Free College, and a B.S. in chemistry at the Case Institute
of Technology of Case Western Reserve University.
