G. Burns Hamilton served as an army engineer captain and as an Assistant Professor at the Royal Military College of Canada. He has also been a lecturer at both McGill and Concordia universities. Burns was a member of NATO’s Civil Aviation Planning Committee and Planning Board for Ocean Shipping. The consulting company that he founded and led for twenty-nine years, Sypher, has advised governments and private agencies in eighty countries, including many in Africa. 

He is also the co-author of the first and second editions of Global Megatrends and Aviation – the Path to Future-Wise Organizations.

Burns lives in Ottawa, Ontario.