CSF helps advance ideas on navigating the exciting, and indeed challenging, transitions in our economy that require smart pathways anchored to innovation, inclusiveness, and sustainability.
Charting a smarter future, from a low-middle country dependent on aid and concessions, to an upper middle-income economy, needs to be driven by competitiveness, inclusion and innovation, greater exposure to the global economy, and heightened consciousness of inequality and ecology. To make this transition successfully and justly, we require greater imagination in socio-economic policies, policy implementation, and business strategies. Private and public responses must be anticipatory of future trends and anchored to real people’s real needs. Solutions to development challenges must be iterative, pragmatic and informed by evidence.
FIVE CHALLENGES
WE ARE WORKING ON

ABOUT US
The Centre for a Smart Future (CSF) Asia-centric hub for advancing great ideas
where young professionals work in an interdisciplinary, contemporary and solutions-oriented way. It is a virtual think tank headquartered in Colombo, with a network of practitioners, researchers, policy professionals and thought leaders across the world.

THE FORUM
Insights and thought leadership from our network
"The Smart Future Forum features insights and thought leadership from our network of policy professionals and development practitioners on topics relating to CSF’s thematic areas. Here you will find articles, reports, essays, op-eds, interviews, and more."


OUR INITIATIVES
FOCUS THEMATIC AREAS
The Centre focuses primarily on five key thematic areas, symbolised by the five quadrants in the logo.
Innovation and inclusion are fundamental cross-cutting themes, and our work in these necessarily intersecting.