The Futurist

Futurist Sohail Inayatullah in Conversation with Ian Khan


Listen Later


About Sohail Inayatullah Professor Sohail Inayatullah



/sə’heɪl ɪnaɪʌ’tʊla/, a political scientist, is Professor at Tamkang University, Taipei (Graduate Institute of Futures Studies) and Associate, Melbourne Business School, The University of Melbourne. From 2001-2020, he was Adjunct Professor from the University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia. From 2011-2014, he was Adjunct Professor at the Centre for policing, counter-terrorism 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 of Futures, Prout Journal, East West Affairs, World Future Review, and Foresight.



He has written more than 350 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-two books/cdroms, including: What Works: Case Studies in the Practice of Foresight; CLA 2.0: Transformative Research in Theory and Practice (2015); Questioning the Future: Methods and Tools for Organizational and Societal Transformation (2007); and, Macrohistory and Macrohistorians: Perspectives on Individual, Social, and Civilizational Change (1997).



His latest (2018) book is Asia 2038: Ten Disruptions That Change Everything. Visit Sohail at https://www.metafuture.org







Full Transcript : Hello friends welcome to a brand new episode of the Ian Khan show. This show is about future it’s about innovation technology, and really how to create tomorrow with all the knowledge and information that we can have today as part of this series on interviewing contributors to the recent book aftershock. And today’s guest is a good friend of mine, fellow futurist and one of the world’s most renowned authorities on futurism. So he’ll unipolar please give a big campus soil. High soil in I told the futures that I’ve been waiting to talk to welcome to the Ian Khan show. How are you today? I’m fantastic. Thanks so much again. Great to connect.

View full transcript



Transcribed by https://otter.ai



So soil this is happening because off aftershock we’re connected have a coffee, too. We’re literally bound together by this book that john shorter has put together. And it’s such an humbling and incredible experience for me to talk to everybody who’s contributed to the books, I’m having amazing conversations with everybody. And I’ve been waiting to speak to you because your pieces in the book, your piece is one of the longest and the most comprehensive piece. I loved reading it. I’m reading everyone’s piece that I’m speaking to. So consider me a little bit well informed about what’s happening. But I still cannot predict anything about tomorrow. It’s been a great learning experience, though. So tell us about yourself your resume so impressed.
...more
View all episodesView all episodes
Download on the App Store

The FuturistBy Ian Khan