Sohail
Inayatullah

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 a Professor at Tamkang University, Tamsui, and an Associate at Melbourne Business School, The University of Melbourne. He teaches through the online Metafuture School, where his courses include Become a Futurist, and Personal Futures: The CLA of the Self. Notably, he is listed in the top two percent of the world’s scientists as measured by the highest impact of citations. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Futures Studies and serves on the editorial boards of numerous other journals in the field. He has authored over 400 book chapters, refereed journal articles, and essays.

His recent books include:

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

Recent and forthcoming presentations include speeches and workshops for the World Library and Information Congress in Busan; Hunan University, Changsha; INTERPOL; Life Without Barriers, Sydney; the South Australia Futures Agency, Adelaide; the Asian Development Bank in Manila; the Dubai Futures Academy and Forum; National Defence University, Pakistan; Pearls of Policing in Montreal and Adelaide; the Office of the Prime Minister, Government of Australia, in Canberra; the United Nations Staff College; the Asia-Pacific Futures Network in Bangkok and Taipei; Studio Dojo, Singapore; Aula Energy, Melbourne; the Global Association of Neohumanist Educators in Romania; the African Brain Health Network; the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies; and the Italian Institute for the Future in Naples and Milan.