 Theobald was a member of the Ad Hoc Committee on the Triple Revolution in 1964, and later listed in the top 10 most influential living futurists in "The Encyclopedia of the Future".Robert Theobald was born in India in 1929, the son of a British businessman.He moved to England at age 16 (1945), and received his higher education in economics at Cambridge, then lived for three years in Paris.