Dr Maha Hosain Aziz

Dr Maha Hosain Aziz has been called a “global thinker to watch" (Dr Nouriel Roubini) and an "engaged scholar activist” (Dr Parag Khanna) whose work is a “must-read” (Kishore Mahbubani, Dr Ian Bremmer). All her work aims to help others make sense of a world of growing global risk in an era of shock events. Dr Aziz is a professor and author in global risk and future trends based at NYU’s MA International Relations Program, leading the annual global risk prediction project with Wikistrat, the world’s first geopolitical crowdsourced consultancy; she is a risk expert on the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Complex Risk (previously on the Council on Frontier Risk in 2020-2022) and speaks to audiences globally on her research (e.g. climate blindspots at COP27 in Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt). She has written a trilogy of books including seven-time award-winning bestseller Future World Order (2019/2020) and upcoming sequels Global Spring (2023) and 10 Shock Events By 2030 (2024). She also created ten-time award-winning VR/AR political comic book The Global Kid (2021) with edtech partner Musemio, drew the seven-time award-winning original (2016) and is working on Evolution (2024) – a comic book about global extremism partly created by generative AI. Dr Aziz has donated a % of all of her book and comic profits to important causes, including vaccine equality via the WHO, Pakistani flood relief via The Citizens Foundation and the Abid Aziz Fund for Syrian refugee youth via charity Peace & Sport. She is a global citizen with strong Pakistani Muslim roots who grew up in seven countries in the Middle East, Southeast Asia, Europe and the US, studying at Brown (BA), Columbia (MA) and the London School of Economics (MSc, PhD). Follow Dr Maha Hosain Aziz on Medium.com, LinkedIn, Instagram and Twitter: https://medium.com/@ma152 https://www.linkedin.com/in/drmahahosainaziz https://www.instagram.com/the_global_kid/ https://twitter.com/DrMahaAziz