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.

EXPERTISE

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.

PRESENTATIONS

In the past five years, among other groups, Inayatullah has addressed or conducted foresight projects including futures workshops: Africa Brain Health Network (online); Geneva Rethinking Finance Collaborative (online); OECD, Paris; The Office of the Prime Minister, the Government of Australia, Canberra; Speculative Design Futures, Auckland; Auckland Council, Auckland; Studio Dojo, Singapore; The Change Initiative, Bangkok; Italian Institute for the Future, Naples; Futuribles, Paris; Auckland City Council, Auckland; National Lutheran Principal Conference, Brisbane; Victoria Police Superintendents (Melbourne); Australia Energy Markets Commission, Sydney; Queensland Government (Innovation for Impact Conference), Brisbane; Mackay Hospital and Health Services, Mackay; Melbourne Water (online); Australia Institute of Police Management (Sydney); CSIR, Government of South Africa (online); Dubai Futures Academy, Dubai; Thailand Institute for Justice, Bangkok; United Justice (online); Dubai Futures Foundation, Dubai; Ho Chin Minh Academy, Hanoi; ADB, Manila; UNESCAP, Bangkok; The Faculty Procurement (online); Victoria Police Inspectors, Melbourne; the Australia Curriculum, Assessment and Certification Authority, Brisbane; King Mohammed VI University, Rabat (online); ICESCO, Rabat; UNESCO and DF6, Austria; PWC, Sydney; The Queensland Crime and Corruption Commission, Brisbane; The Philippines Senate (online); Pearls of Policing at INTERPOL, Singapore; Bappenas, Indonesian Ministry of National Planning, Jakarta; TAFE Queensland Brisbane; Maranoa Shire Council Roma; Western Downs Regional Council, Dalby; University of Westminster, Uzbekistan (online); Presbyterian and Methodist Schools Association, Brisbane; International Islamic Universities (online); The Gulf Arab States Educational Research Centre (Bahrain); Casa Firjan (online, Brazil); UNESCO the World Human Rights Cities Conference, South Korea (online); Asian Development Bank and Gender Equality (Manila); Think Beyond (New Zealand); Sport New Zealand; The Pacific Community (online); Indigenous Eye Care (Darwin); ANZ Bank (Brisbane); Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (online); Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Croatia (online); Australia Prudential Regulation Authority (online); SWPS University in Poland (online); the Government of Mongolia with WHO (online); Goa Institute of Management, Goa (online); National Futures Assembly, the Parliament of South Korea (online); UNESCAP, Bangkok, Thailand (online); UNESCO-IESALC (online); UNESCO-Shanghai Open University (online); Carnegie Mellon and Tsinghua University (online); the Asia Pacific Futures Network (online); WHO (online); the Atlantic Fellows (Phuket, Thailand and online); Catholic Secondary Principals Association of Queensland (Twin Waters, Queensland); The Razak School of Government and the Malaysia Public Service (online); Optometry Australia (online); the Pacific Community – SPC (online); Globe Telecom (online); Traces. Dreams (online); the United Nations System Staff College (online); the Systems Change Alliance (online); the Local Government Professionals, Melbourne (online); Centre for Engaged Foresight and the Philippines Futures Thinking Society (online); The Equity Initiative, Bangkok (online); UNHCR (online); ISESCO in Tunisia (online); Portland State University (online); the Korea Development Institute (online); Islamic International University of Malaysia (online), Gerson Lehrman Group (online), Government of New Zealand (online); Department of Defence, Australia (through Melbourne Business School); Portland University (online); United Nations and the Government of Egypt (online); Philippines Futures Thinking Society (online); Walter and Eliza Hall Institute (online); Powerlink Queensland; Yoga Ecology Festival (online); the Government of Abu Dhabi, Department of Culture and Tourism (online); Brisbane Grammar School (online); the National Disability Practitioners (online); the Civil Service Institute, Office of the Prime Minister, Government of Brunei and Centre for Strategy and Policy Studies, Brunei; Office of the President, Republic of Argentina, Buenos Aires; Converge Capital Markets and Wfuturismo, Rio De Janeiro; Civil Service Institute and Centre for Strategic and Policy Studies, Government of Brunei; the Government of Kazakhstan, Nur Sultan; Brisbane Grammar School, Brisbane; National Agriculture Technology Institute, Buenos Aires; Brisbane Grammar School, Brisbane; Australia Federal Police and the National Commission on Crime Proceedings, Brisbane; the Pakistan Strategy Summit, Karachi; National Disability Services, Sydney; the Asia-Pacific Futures Network, Bangkok; National Economic Development Authority, the Government of the Philippines; Ministry of Education, the Government of Norway, Oslo; Government of Cambodia, Phnom Penh (Sponsored by the Asian Development Bank); Edmund Rice Education Australia, Sydney and Melbourne; The Ministry of Finance and National Planning Reform Commission (the Government of the People’s Republic of China); the Institute for Futures Research, South Africa (via skype); the Government of Armenia, Yerevan (Sponsored by the Asian Development Bank); FAST Yerevan, Armenia; the Ministry of Education, Government of Sri Lanka, Colombo (via skype, sponsored by the Asian Development Bank); Ngai Tahu from New Zealand; Livingstone Shire Council, Yeppoon; The Coroners Court of Victoria, Melbourne; Mind Australia, Melbourne; the Obidyar Fellows, Honolulu; the Asian Development Bank Knowledge Forum, Manila; Z-Punkt, Koln (skype), Communify, Brisbane; Local Government Managers Association, Queensland, Twin Waters; Queensland Deaf Services, Brisbane; Sustainable Economic Growth for Regional Australia, Mackay; The Futures Institute, the Gold Coast; The Food and Agriculture Organization, Rome; Joint Research Centre, European Commission, Brussels; INTERPOL, Singapore; Beyond Storytelling, Hamburg; OIC and COMSATS, Kuala Lumpur; Australia Federal Police, Canberra; the South African Treasury and the University of Pretoria’s Gordon Institute of Business Science; FAO, Bangkok; Prince Mahidol Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation, Bangkok; the Global Leaders Forum, Seoul; Dadabhoy Institute of Higher Education, Karachi; Peryon People Management Association of Turkey, Istanbul; Swissaid, Geneva; UNESCO, Social and Human Services, Paris; United Nations Association of Australia, Perth; Universitair Centrum Sing-Ignatius Antwerpen, Antwerp; the Ministry of Education, Government of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur; Hong Kong Police; Omidyar Fellows, Honolulu; Tablelands Regional Council, Queensland; Montessori International College, the Sunshine Coast; Government of South Korea, National Employment Information Agency, Seoul; The Institute of Space Technologies, Islamabad, Pakistan; The Knowledge Park, Office of the Prime Minister, Government of Thailand, Bangkok; Adelaide City Council; Worldvision International, Geneva and London; Bond International, London; African Youth Futures Network, UNESCO, Paris; Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, South Africa; National Academy of Sciences and the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, Government of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur; Office of the Prime Minister, Government of Singapore, Singapore; Office of the President, Government of South Korea, Seoul; Office of the Prime Minister, Government of Canada; The European Commission, Brussels; Royal Automobile Club of Western Australia, Perth; Loreto Normanhurst, Sydney; Pearls of Policing (a consortium of Europol, the Dutch Police, the RCMP and the FBI), Hong Kong and Sydney; Australian Council for International Development, Canberra; the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology, the Government of Iran, Tehran; Victoria Government, Department of Health and Human Services; Jesuit Social Services, Melbourne; the Lowitja Institute, Melbourne; Centre for Investment Education, Melbourne; the City of Greater Geelong; Department of Fire and Emergency Services, Brisbane, and National Disability Services, Brisbane.

HIS CORPORATE PRESENTATIONS INCLUDE: Colgate Palmolive, India (online); The Inside Network/CEO forum, Melbourne; Emirates Banking, Dubai; Innovation Explorer, Bulgaria (online); PWC, New Zealand; CIMB Melbourne Business School; Santander, Madrid; PWC, Sydney; Aboitiz, Manila (online); Gensler, England (online); ANZ, Brisbane; Mitsubishi Motors (online); LEGO (online); Raytheon, Edotco, Malaysia (online); PWC, Sydney; The Rutherford Business Group, Auckland; RHB, Kuala Lumpur; Berjaya, Kuala Lumpur; Birdway Management Consulting, Hong Kong; Futures Platform, Helsinki; Bank Pembangunan Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur; Asahi Beverages, Brisbane; Bluescope Steel, Sydney; Northern Queensland Airports, Cairns; Optometry Australia, Melbourne; Bristol Myers Squibb, Singapore; Glaxosmithkline, Melbourne; Australian Pharmaceuticals Association, Sydney; Fuji Xerox, Sydney; Zurich, Sydney; AAMI, Sydney; Tenaga Nasional Berhad, Malaysia, Dow and Sadara Chemical Company, Dubai; National Transport Insurance, Queensland; Stepbeyond, Perth; the Family Wealth Forum, Sydney; Cisco, Melbourne; Indue, Sydney; Ozri, Melbourne; BUPA Group, Melbourne; Ergon, Queensland; Suncorp Bank, Queensland; and John Holland, Queensland.

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