Professor Sohail Inayatullah is a political scientist and award-winning futurist. He is the inaugural UNESCO Chair of Futures Studies; professor at the Graduate Institute of Futures Studies, Tamkang University, Taiwan; Adjunct professor in the Faculty of Arts and Business, the University of the Sunshine Coast; and Associate with Melbourne Business School, the University of Melbourne.  Inayatullah has authored and edited more than 30 books and over 300 journal articles, book chapters, and reviews and worked with organisations and governments around the world to create their own alternative and desired futures. He is a co-founder of the APFN and acts currently as the Chair of the steering committee. 

Dr. Ora-orn is the founding Director of the School of Public Policy at Chiang Mai University, a position she has held since 2018. She also served on the United Nations Committee of Experts on Public Administration from January 2018 to July 2021. Ora's research expertise spans comparative public policy, network management, co-production, collaborative governance, foresight, and spirituality. Utilizing foresight as a tool for policy analysis, Ora and her team have collaborated with various organizations to envision and shape potential futures in areas such as security, education, health, city governance, border management, tourism, and social protection systems. In addition, she is exploring the nexus of foresight, spirituality, science, and policy. 

Zainal Abidin Sanusi is currently Director, Sejahtera Centre for Sustainability and Humanity, International Islamic University Malaysia while serving as an Professor at the Department of Political Science, Kuliyyah of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Science.  Prior to this post, he served as Minister Council (Education) at Malaysian High Commission, London. He had also served as Deputy Director, Centre for Leadership Training at Higher Education Leadership Academy of the Ministry of Education Malaysia. 

Dr. Patrick Noack is Executive Director: Future, Foresight and Imagination, at the Dubai Future Foundation, where he manages the Dubai Future Institute that includes the research team, the Academy, the WEF C4IR and the Dubai Future Forum. He is Policy Fellow at the Centre for Science and Policy, University of Cambridge and is a member of the WHO’s Eastern Mediterranean Region’s Technical Advisory Committee. Time permitting, he writes an opinion column in The National on foresight topics. Patrick holds a master’s in social policy from the LSE and a doctorate from the University of Aberdeen.

Ragil Ratnam is a Professor at Sasin School of Management (Strategy and Negotiation), Associate Faculty at Duke CE, Emeritus and Headspring Executive Development. He has 25+ years of corporate and academic experience in Leadership Development, Executive Coaching and Psychology. He has supported leadership development at multiple organizations in both the private and public sector across several continents.

Dr. Nok is a researcher in the field of futures studies, with a particular focus on the intersection of philosophy, ethics, and social impact. Currently, she serves as a Guest Editor for the Special Issue of the Journal of Futures Studies, leading the discourse on “AI and Future of Futures.” As a Futures Studies researcher, Nok has collaborated with diverse organizations in Asia and Europe, addressing pressing issues such as air pollution, peace and security, sustainable finance, education, healthcare, and innovative policy-making. Her research emphasizes integrating philosophical inquiry to enhance critical thinking skills and foster active citizenship in the face of emerging challenges. 

Professor Ivana Milojević is a researcher and an educator with the background in sociology, gender, peace and futures studies. Originally from former-Yugoslavia she now resides at the Sunshine Coast, Australia, where she is an Adjunct Professor (University of the Sunshine Coast, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences). Since 2008 Dr Milojević has also been Visiting Professor at the Association of Centres for Interdisciplinary and Multidisciplinary Studies and Research, University of Novi Sad, Serbia.  

Shermon Cruz is the Founder, Executive Director, and Chief Futurist of the Center for Engaged Foresight, a global futures innovation and strategic foresight hub. The Center for Engaged Foresight is an institutional member of the Association of Professional Futurists and the World Futures Studies Federation. CEF is the host of The Millennium Project Philippines. He serves as the UNESCO Chair on Anticipatory Governance and Regenerative Cities at Northwestern University, Philippines, Chair of The Millennium Project Philippines Node (MP), and former Chair of the Association of Professional Futurists. He is also a Co-Founder of Make Our Future, the Asia Pacific Futures Network. He holds the positions of Co-Founder, Chief Futurist, and Vice-President at the Philippines Futures Thinking Society (PhilFutures). As a full member of the World Futures Studies Federation (WFSF) and a pioneer member of UNESCO's Global Anticipatory Thinking Network (Futures Literacy), Shermon has established himself as a leading figure in the field. He is also a co-founder of the Global Future Society at the Dubai Future Foundation. 

Dr. Mei-Mei Song, EdD is a futurist and an educator. She is an Associate Professor in the Graduate Institute of Futures Studies as well as the Founder and Director of the Center for Futures Intelligence and Research (C-FAR), Tamkang University, Taiwan. Dr. Song’s recent research centers around newer ways of teaching futures studies such as experiential futures, gamification of futures tools, and integration of futures thinking and design thinking, particularly in engineering education.  

Dr Elissa Farrow is an Australian futurist, author, facilitator, coach and strategist. She has over 25 years experience in research, organisational innovation, design, adaptation and benefits realisation. and has extensive experience in strategic organisational adaptation design and delivery. Her published doctoral research explored the implications of Artificial Intelligence on organisational futures. Dr Farrow is an Adjunct Fellow at the University of the Sunshine Coast. She is an experienced board director, and has held global leadership positions with the Change Management Institute as well as past chair of DVConnect a service preventing Domestic and Family Violence in Queensland. 

Head of Innovation Foresight, National Innovation Agency (NIA) 

Dr. Steven Lichty is based in Nairobi, Kenya and is a co-founder and managing partner of REAL Consulting Group, a boutique firm focused on strategic foresight, research, and evaluation. He has nearly 25 years’ experience in various sectors across Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America, including those in post-conflict, transitional, and fragile environments. Additionally, he has worked with academic and research capacity building with universities in East Africa and has worked with a range of clients including the World Bank, Save the Children, USAID, Freedom House, Tearfund, Mars, Inc., USAID, etc. Steven’s PhD is in African Studies, but he incorporated a multi-disciplinary approach in his studies and included insight from religion, development studies, anthropology, and political theory. He also recently completed an MPhil in Futures Studies from Stellenbosch University. His current research focuses on the nexus of community-led trauma healing, futures consciousness, and the Triple Dividend.

Luke leads a globally-oriented foresight and strategy practice addressing food security, sustainability, cities and infrastructure, and transnational cross-sectoral innovation – partnering with stakeholders to navigate forward horizons of complex geopolitical, tech, and ecosocial transformation towards resilience, impact, and success. 

Luke speaks and consults on emerging opportunities in food systems resilience and transformation, sustainability futures, corporate and national success strategies amid the “polycrisis”, and on leading with foresight. He has developed scenarios and strategies for food innovations and value chains, water systems and decarbonization, and has authored book chapters on the future of Asian food systems, and on global water futures. He also serves as an adjunct lecturer at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy and Singapore’s Civil Service College, and as Resident Futurist at venture builder Budding Innovation.

Engy is the founder of Unica Research agency, the first market research agency that serves startups, SMEs and entrepreneurs. The passion that urged us to start this, is the existing gap facing startups, either due to their lack of affordability or due to their very special needs. All of this urged her and others to partner with management consultancies, marketing agencies, field agencies and supporting organizations to fill this enlighten startups’ and SMEs’ path, providing best research, training and consulting practices, locally, regionally and globally.

She is also the Head of Exploration at UNDP Accelerator Lab, that’s part of a global network of 91 labs, where she explores sustainable development challenges using collective intelligence, systems thinking, future thinking and uncommon data sources.

Peace futurist and transformative mediator, conflict transformation trainer and consultant. Former Secretary General and Executive Board member of the World Futures Studies Federation (WFSF) Faculty member of the Graduate School department at the University of St. Las Salle in Bacolod City, Philippines teaching peace futures and conflict transformation.

Marcus T. Anthony, Associate Professor of Foresight and Strategy (Centre for English and Interdisciplinary Studies), College of Global Talents, Beijing Institute of Technology, Zhuhai, China. 

Executive Assistant Director at Centre for Postnormal Policy and Futures Studies 

Dr. Tamás Gáspár is an associate professor at the Budapest Business University, Hungary, the research director of the Centre of Excellence for Future Value Chains, as well as the president of the Futures Studies Sub-Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He has been involved in foresight for more than 25 years. His current activities are teaching strategic foresight at the doctoral school, microhistory and transition for the international master’s students, and he runs research and teaching programmes on futures skills and competence building. He also gained diploma for primary school teaching in order to help the future development of children. 15 years ago, he started a heart and mind opening programme with Bori Katona, which enhances the building blocks of futures skills to emerge in small children. He is the author of the book entitled Strategia Sapiens, a deep rooted discussion of humane foresight. 

Jezreel Larry R. Caunca currently serves as the Foresight Coordinator for the UNESCO Chair  on Anticipatory Governance and Regenerative Cities and Philippine Center for Foresight Education and Innovation Research Institute at Northwestern University, Laoag City, Ilocos Norte, Philippines. Mr. Caunca is a key advocate for integrating futures thinking into education and the youth, demonstrated by his role in the first-ever UNESCO Chair in the Philippines. At Northwestern University, he teaches Futures Thinking, a general education subject offered to all undergraduate degree programs of the university, fostering the next generation of futures-literate professionals. A dedicated youth leader, he founded Youth for Foresight and Regenerative Sustainable Tomorrows (Y-FOREST), aiming to empower young people in regenerative thinking and foresight practices in the Philippines and the Global South.

Clarice Garcia is an award-winning researcher and foresight practitioner with a drive for imaginative and collaborative futures. She specialises in connecting cultural shifts with opportunities for innovation to generate value for brands when uncertainty prevails and a transition to sustainable futures is paramount.

Over the last ten years, Clarice Garcia has worked as a researcher and foresight strategist for global companies, collaborating on projects for clients such as Nike, Google, L’Oréal, YouTube, Netflix, Nestlé, Panasonic, and Ford. 

As a doctoral researcher at RMIT University in Australia, she created Fashion Futuring - an award-winning speculative methodology that intelaces design, culture, strategic foresight and collaboration to spark imagination and provoke a values-driven transition towards sustainable futures. 

Tyler Mongan is the co-founder of HA:KU Global, an organization pioneering the application of neuroscience-based research to enhance future intelligence among leaders and scale it across organizations. Tyler has facilitated over 100 sessions aimed at equipping leaders with the tools to navigate an AI and technology-driven future. His insights have been featured at events including the Science of Consciousness conference in Interlaken, the Small Giants Conference in Detroit, the World Future Studies Federation conference in Mexico City, and Technology Open Air in Berlin. As the host of the Future Intelligence Podcast, he explores cutting-edge trends and strategies shaping tomorrow's leadership landscape. Tyler has published articles on future intelligence and geopolitical trends, and is a contributing editor for “Introduction to Foresight, Executive Edition: Personal, Team, and Organizational Adaptiveness.” 

Dr. Rathana Peou Norbert-Munns is an award-winning futurist (APF- IF 2022). She is an experienced researcher and practitioner on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security currently based in S.E. Asia. She has extensive experience in design, implementation, capacity building and analysis within the practice of foresight planning for sustainable, resilient, and low emissions Food Systems.

Dr. Peou Norbert-Munns brings a depth of experience and expertise within the fields of Foresight and Scenarios Planning in Asia, actively contributing over the last 10 years to the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) as a Regional Scenarios Coordinator first in South Asia, and then in Southeast Asia. In 2021, she joined the FAO Regional Office of Asia Pacific as their Climate Foresight and Scenarios Development expert and supported climate foresight guided agrifood system related policies formulation in Cambodia and Lao PDR. She, now, joins, the Office of Sustainable Development Goals (OSG)- FAO as the Sustainable development and agrifood system policy expert. 

Adam, founder of Futurely Co. Ltd, is a Bangkok-based futurist, youth engagement expert, and group process facilitator. He has provided educational programs to individuals throughout Asia working with organisations such as the United Nations, Asian Development Bank, MTV EXIT, and the British Council. As the co-founder and Director of Learning at Metafuture School—an online futures thinking platform— Adam has delivered futures thinking programs to organisations around the world. His research which centers primarily on participatory foresight experiments and meaningful youth engagement has been widely published. In 2022, he received the Next Generation Foresight Practitioners award for Intergenerational Fairness from the School of International Futures. Adam serves as the lead convener for the NGFP Intergenerational Fairness Hub, and works as a youth participation consultant at UNICEF’s Global Office of Research and Foresight. 

Louis Zheng is committed to promoting the integration of Futures Studies with community, education, and business. He co-founded FuturistCircle, China’s first futurist and foresight practitioner network. He is also the founding member of FutureMatters, a foresight innovation consultancy based in Shanghai where he provides high-quality trend monitoring and expert network services for corporates. For future literacy education, he guest-lectures at various Chinese and international universities such as Tongji University, New York University, and Management School ESSCA. 

Besides, he is the chief editor and contributor of C Futures, a column conveying China's future and innovation stories overseas on Substack, and a regional editor of the Journal of Future Studies, Tamkang University. He previously worked in Silicon Valley, US, and has been a China ambassador of China-America Innovation Networks, a 501c non-profit in California. 

Max Santana is a professor and facilitator specializing in strategic foresight and sociopolitical risk analysis. At IARAN, Max works to enhance the capacities of humanitarian organisations by supporting the design of future scenarios and long-term strategies that contribute to building the capabilities of key organizations in the sector. Max leads courses in foresight and strategic planning at TEC de Monterrey and CENTRO, two higher education institutions in Mexico. Through these courses, Max transfers practical skills and strategic thinking to the next generation of leaders. Max holds a Bachelor's degree in International Relations and a Master's degree in Strategic Foresight from TEC de Monterrey.

Dr. José Ramos is founder and co-director of Action Foresight, co-editor for the Journal of Futures Studies, co-founder of the Participatory Futures Global Swarm, and founder of Futures Lab, through which he runs the Mutant Futures program. He has published over 70 articles, chapters and papers on futures studies methods, action research, social innovation, public policy, governance and the commons. He lives in central Victoria, Australia, with his wife De Chantal and his two children Ethan and Rafaela, his dog Nacho, 20 or so chickens and a wide variety of native birds.  

Vuki Buadromo is from Fiji and is a Principal Adviser at the Pacific Community, an intergovernmental agency dedicated to supporting the region’s sustainable development priorities through science and technical services. Before this, she worked at the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat, a regional agency that leads political and economic cooperation policy discussions and programs. 

With over 20 years of expertise in regional development, Vuki has experience translating global and regional policy commitments into actionable programs for the Pacific. Her current and previous roles included managing regional programs on climate change adaptation, climate finance, food security, and women in leadership. As well as supporting strategic regional policy development discussions. 

Vuki is keen to enhance her knowledge of methods, approaches, and innovations in futures thinking and strategic foresight, potential tools that have and may continue to inform the implementation of the 2050 Strategy for the Blue Pacific Continent. 

Noe John Joseph Endencio Sacramento is an Assistant Professor 7 of Political Science (Public Policy and Administration) at the College of Social Sciences, University of the Philippines Cebu. He is a Ph.D. candidate in public policy at the School of Public Policy, Chiang Mai University, Thailand. He specializes in political science, public administration, and public policy. His research focuses on critical policy studies, community development, and politics. Recently, he has had a vested interest in critical studies policy research, including narratives, deliberative spaces, the role of power, emotions, and the critical-pragmatic approach to policy analysis. 

Russell Clemens lives in Perth, Western Australia. A retired civil servant, with a Bachelor’s degree in Business (IT) Studies (1979), and a Masters of Arts / Futures Studies (2005), he is completing a PhD candidacy in Futures Studies at the University of the Sunshine Coast (Queensland). The research focuses on the future of the Asian elephant species now listed on the International Union for Conservation of Nature's (IUCN) RedList of endangered species. The research focuses on possible Asian elephant extinction in the 21st century and how this risk can be understood, mitigated, and transformed. The methodology is based on the Causal Layered Analysis (CLA; Sohail Inayatullah) and reviews social systems, worldviews, myths and metaphors. The current APFN-10 interest is how this research relates to Critical Realism (Roy Bhaskar) and transforming human-elephant conflict (HEC) into sustainable coexistence.

Antonio Salazar Jr. is a political science faculty member of the Division of Social Sciences, University of the Philippines Tacloban College. He is also an MA in Public Policy student of the School of Public Policy, Chiang Mai University, Thailand, under the CMU Presidential Scholarship. His research interest is the dynamics of and interconnections of public policy theory, policy assemblages, posthuman futures, and climate justice.
E-mail: adsalazar2@up.edu.ph

Carol is the co-founder of the Singapore chapter of Teach the Future, a global non-profit. She collaborates with tertiary institutions, youth social enterprises, and non-profits in Singapore to equip students with futures thinking and essential 21st-century skills, empowering them to design their personal futures and create social impact as young changemakers. With over 20 years of senior leadership experience in both public and private sectors, Carol has worked in foresight roles and projects in areas such as urban planning, placemaking, brand and marketing communications, tertiary education, education technology, and product innovation. In addition to her youth empowerment work, she is a speaker and business coach specialising in helping organisations anticipate and prepare for disruptive futures. She guides them in reimagining their futures and innovating their businesses by building anticipatory capabilities and fostering a foresight culture. Her passion for promoting foresight and creativity through game-based learning and serious games inspired her to lead the organisation of Singapore’s first #play14 Unconference in 2024, a global non-profit gathering of L&D professionals who believe in the power of play for connection, collaboration, and innovation.

Nadya Shaznay Patel, an Assistant Professor in the Business, Communication and Design cluster at the Singapore Institute of Technology and one of the Co-Founders of Teach the Future (Singapore Chapter), has over twenty years of experience as an educator, researcher and trainer. With a passion for critical design futures thinking, she co-develops design innovation and multimedia design modules that aim to develop learners' critical competence, design dexterity and futures flexibility for innovation. Her research interests also include GenAI in learning and development, transdisciplinarity, and empathetic, dialogic coaching. A teacher-researcher at heart, she endeavours to remain at the forefront of transformational pedagogical approaches that leverage emerging technologies and transdisciplinary learning. 

Jawn Lim is an Associate Professor of design futures and innovation at the Singapore Institute of Technology. His consults for companies from banking to hospitality. He frequently serves as a judge for awards in branding, design, and technology. Concurrently, he is the Chief Design Officer at the Singapore Productivity Centre and Chair of the Advisory Committee at the Singapore Polytechnic’s Media, Art, and Design School. Previously, Jawn was an architectural designer with Arquitectonica, Marmol Radziner, Hetzel Design and Pritzker Laureate, Frank Gehry. He holds an Advanced Certificate for Executives in Management, Innovation, and Technology from MIT and a Doctor of Design from Harvard. 

Joedel Penaranda is the Head of the Secretariat of the Pangandoy sa Hiraya: The Futures-Thinking Consortium of HEIs in Eastern Visayas. A member of the Association of Professional Futurists (APF), he leads the Strategic Innovation and Knowledge Laboratory (SIKLAB) at BiPSU while serving as the Executive Assistant to the University President. A futurist and foresight practitioner, he has completed various courses on futures-thinking and has three research papers on smart campus development, scenario development, and future research awaiting publication. Penaranda is a Fulbright alum, a Regional Winner of the CSC Search for Outstanding Government Worker, and a Philippine Quality Award (PQA) assessor. He holds a bachelor's degree in Education and a Master's of Public Management and is a Juris Doctor candidate.