About us

Metafuture is an educational think tank that explores alternative and preferred futures and the worldviews and myths that underlie them. Through presentations, workshops and research, Metafuture helps local and global organizations and institutions create alternative and preferred futures. It is hosted by Sohail Inayatullah and Ivana Milojević.

About Sohail Inayatullah

Professor Sohail Inayatullah /sə'heɪl ɪnaɪʌ'tʊla/, a political scientist, is the UNESCO Chair in Futures Studies at the Sejahtera Centre forSohail Inayatullah latest photo Sustainability and Humanity, IIUM, Malaysia. He is also a Professor at Tamkang University, Taipei (Graduate Institute of Futures Studies) and an Associate, Melbourne Business School, The University of Melbourne. From 2016 – 2020 he was the UNESCO Chair in Futures Studies at USIM, Malaysia. From 2001-2020, he was an 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. In 1999, he was the UNESCO Chair in European Studies at the University of Trier, Germany.

In 2016, Professor Inayatullah was awarded the first UNESCO Chair in Futures Studies. In 2010, he was awarded the Laurel award for all-time best futurist by the Shaping Tomorrow Foresight Network. In March 2011, he was awarded an honorary doctorate by Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang. He received his doctorate from the University of Hawaii in 1990. Inayatullah has lived in Islamabad, Pakistan; Bloomington, Indiana; Flushing, New York; Geneva, Switzerland; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Honolulu, Hawaii; and Brisbane and Mooloolaba, Australia.

Inayatullah is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Futures Studies and on the editorial boards (or scientific advisor)  of FuturesProut Journal, World Future Review, World Futures, Futuribles, and Foresight. He has written more than 400  journal articles, book chapters, encyclopedia entries and magazine editorials. His articles have been translated into a variety of languages, including Catalan, Spanish, Urdu, Hindi, Bengali, Italian, Japanese, Russian, Indonesian, Farsi, Arabic, and Mandarin. Inayatullah has also written and co-edited twenty-sux books/cdroms, including:CLA 3,0: Thirty Years of Transformative Research (with Ralph Mercer, Ivana Milojevic, and John A. Sweeney);  What Works: Case Studies in the Practice of ForesightCLA 2.0: Transformative Research in Theory and Practice (2015, and Ivana Milojević); Questioning the Future: Methods and Tools for Organizational and Societal Transformation (2007); Macrohistory and Macrohistorians: Perspectives on Individual, Social, and Civilizational Change (1997 and Johan Galtung). His latest (2018) book include Asia 2038: Ten Disruptions That Change Everything (in English, Mandarin, and Korean and Lu Na), Futures Thinking and Foresight: Why Foresight Matters for Policy Makers (Susann Roth) and Infectious Futures: Reflections, Visions, and Worlds Through and Beyond C0VID-19 (Ramos, Black and Sweeney).

About Ivana Milojević

Dr. Ivana Milojević (/ˈivənə mɪˈlɔɪəvɪtʃ/) is a researcher, writer, and educator with a transdisciplinary professional background spanning Female futurist in happy mood with coloful background, Dr Ivana Milojević,sociology, education, gender studies, peace and conflict studies, and futures studies. She completed her Bachelor of Arts degree in sociology from the University of Belgrade in 1992 and earned her PhD in education at the University of Queensland in 2003. Currently, she serves as the Director of Metafuture, a global think-tank, and Metafuture School, an online platform offering futures-oriented courses.

Since the mid-1990s, Ivana has been actively engaged in delivering speeches, facilitating workshops, and conducting research for various governmental institutions, international associations, and non-governmental organizations across diverse regions, including Asia-Pacific (e.g., Armenia, Australia, Cambodia, Brunei Darussalam, Iran, Malaysia, New Zealand, Pakistan, Philippines, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, UAE, and US-Hawaii), Africa (Morocco, South Africa), and Europe (Austria, Croatia, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Hungary, Italy, Serbia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and Turkey). She has held academic positions at several universities, including the University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia (Adjunct Professor, 2009-2015), University of Novi Sad, Serbia (Visiting Professor, 2008-2017), and Tamkang University, Taiwan (2015). In 2016-2017, she led the foresight unit at the Centre for Strategic and Policy Studies in Brunei Darussalam. Since 2022, Ivana has served as a Senior Futures Thinking and Foresight Specialist/Consultant with the Asian Development Bank.

Dr. Milojević is a prolific author with a body of work that includes over eighty journal articles and book chapters. She is also the author, co-author, and/or co-editor of numerous academic books, including ADB Foresight in Action: Prospective Policy Making in Asia and the Pacific (forthcoming January 2024), CLA 3.0: Thirty Years of Transformative Research (2022), CLA 2.0: Transformative Research in Theory and Practice (2015), Breathing: Violence In, Peace Out (2013), Alternative Educational Futures: Pedagogies for an Emergent World (2008), and a special issue of Futures on Feminism/Gender (2008). Her contributions also encompass Neohumanist Educational Futures: Liberating the Pedagogical Intellect (2006) and Educational Futures: Dominant and Contesting Visions (2005), which was reprinted in paperback format in 2011. In addition to her English-language publications, she has co-authored and co-edited two books in Serbian: Ko se boji vuka još? Moćne priče za pametne i odvažne (2012) and Uvod u rodne teorije (2011). She is also the creator of the fiction series Heroine’s Journey (2022), including The Gold Maker, The Future Maker, and The Peace Maker.

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