Dr Sohail Inayatullah

Dr Sohail Inayatullah's Biography

Professor Sohail Inayatullah is a leading political scientist and futurist. He presents on futures thinking, strategy development, innovation and foresight, and bio-securities futures around the world.

Sohail is the UNESCO Chair in Futures Studies at the Sejahtera Centre for Sustainability and Humanity, IIUM, Malaysia. He is also Professor at Tamkang University, Tamsui and Associate, Melbourne Business School, the University of Melbourne. He teaches from Meta Future School where his courses include Become a Futurist and Personal Futures: the CLA of the Self.

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

Recent presentations include speeches and workshops for the Asian Development Bank, Manila; the Pakistan Airforce, Islamabad; Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies, Copenhagen; Logan City Council, Logan; Pearls of Policing, Montreal; the Office of the PM, Government of Australia, Canberra; United Nations Staff College; Asia-Pacific Futures Network; Studio Dojo, Singapore; Riser Futures, Toronto; Global Association of Neohumanist Educators, Romania; African Brain Health Network, online; Future Days, Lisbon; Queensland Health Cairns; and the Italian Institute for the Future, Naples.

His recent books include:

Aeon and Mewtronix – A Futures Tale (2024) (In Mandarin, Farsi, Filipino, Urdu, Danish, Serbian)

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)

Sohail helps individuals and organizations create alternative and preferred futures.

Contact Helene Greenham directly to enquire about Sohail’s speaking presentations – helene@platinumspeakers.com.au

Speaking Topics Include

Theorizing how the future is constructed

Developing futures methodologies

Specialties: Teaching futures

Futures workshops

Futures methods

Macrohistory and futures studies

The futures of ...

Leadership Beyond The Great Pause: Climate Change And Other Wicked Problems

Walking Together: Gender Equality Futures 2042 in the Asia-Pacific Region

Creating a New Renaissance: Can Responses to Covid-19 Pivot us to a Transformed World?

Communicating the Future: Foresight as Mindfulness

The Invisible Hand Or Inclusive Flow? The Futures Of The World System

ASEAN 2030: Dire Disruptions and Anticipated Possibilities - What are the futures of the Asia-Pacific region?

The Seven Super Powers of Futurists - the midst of dramatic social and technological change