Sohail Inayatullah, a political scientist and futurist, is the UNESCO Chair in Futures Studies at the Sejahtera Centre for Sustainability and Humanity, IIUM, Malaysia.

He is also Professor at Tamkang University, Taiwan and Associate, Melbourne Business School, the University of Melbourne. He teaches from www.metafutureschool.org where his courses include Become a Futurist and Personal Futures: the CLA of the Self.

Sohail is listed in the top two percent of the world’s scientists as measured by the highest impact of citations.

He has authored over 30 books and journal special issues including Asia 2030 – the rights of women, the rise of robots, and futures after capitalism; What Works –

He is currently an evaluator of foresight projects with the CSPS, Government of Brunei. In 2021, he was futurist-in-residence (virtual) at the Government of Abu Dhabi, Department of Culture and Tourism. From 2001-2020, he was Adjunct Professor at the University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia. From 2011-2014, he was Adjunct Professor at the Centre for policing, counterterrorism and intelligence, Macquarie University, Sydney.

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Inayatullah has authored and co-edited thirty books/cdroms, including:

• Aeon and Mewtronix – A Futures Tale (2024)
• CLA 3.0: 30 Years of Transformative Research (2022)
• Infectious Futures (2022)
• The End of the Cow and Other Emerging issues (2022);
• Futures Thinking in Asia and the Pacific: Why Foresight Matters for Policy Makers (2020)
• Asia 2038: Ten Disruptions that Change Everything (2018) (in Mandarin, 2020 and in Korean, 2021)
• Transformation 2050: the Alternative Futures of Malaysian Universities (2018)
• What Works: Case Studies in the Practice of Foresight (winner of the most significant work for 2016, the Association of Professional Futurists) and,
• CLA 2.0: Transformative Research in Theory and Practice (2015). 

Inayatullah has written more than 400 journal articles, book chapters, encyclopedia entries and magazine editorials. Some of his books and articles have been translated into a variety of languages, including Catalan, Spanish, Urdu, Hindi, Bengali, Italian, Korean, Japanese, Russian, Indonesian, Farsi, Arabic, and Mandarin.

He has delivered keynotes globally, including for the OECD, UNESCAP, Dubai Future Forum, and the Asia Development Bank.

Your seminar on futures and technique in scenario development was pivotal to the seminar. The feedback from participants included descriptors as ‘exceptional, eye opening and beyond informative.”

I again thank you and congratulate you on this outcome.

Andrew Colvin

Commissioner, Australia Federal Police