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Professor Sohail Inayatullah /sə'heɪl ɪnaɪʌ'tʊla/, a political scientist, 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, Taipei (Graduate Institute of Futures Studies) and an Associate, Melbourne Business School, The University of Melbourne. From 2016 – 2020 he was the UNESCO Chair in Futures Studies at USIM, Malaysia. From 2001-2020, he was an 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. 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 (or scientific advisor) of Futures, Prout Journal, World Future Review, World Futures, Futuribles, and Foresight. He has written more than 400 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-sux books/cdroms, including:CLA 3,0: Thirty Years of Transformative Research (with Ralph Mercer, Ivana Milojevic, and John A. Sweeney); What Works: Case Studies in the Practice of Foresight; CLA 2.0: Transformative Research in Theory and Practice (2015, and Ivana Milojević); Questioning the Future: Methods and Tools for Organizational and Societal Transformation (2007); Macrohistory and Macrohistorians: Perspectives on Individual, Social, and Civilizational Change (1997 and Johan Galtung). His latest (2018) book include Asia 2038: Ten Disruptions That Change Everything (in English, Mandarin, and Korean and Lu Na), Futures Thinking and Foresight: Why Foresight Matters for Policy Makers (Susann Roth) and Infectious Futures: Reflections, Visions, and Worlds Through and Beyond C0VID-19 (Ramos, Black and Sweeney).
Dr. Ivana Milojević (/ˈivənə mɪˈlɔɪəvɪtʃ/) is a researcher, writer, and educator with a transdisciplinary professional background spanning sociology, education, gender studies, peace and conflict studies, and futures studies. She completed her Bachelor of Arts degree in sociology from the University of Belgrade in 1992 and earned her PhD in education at the University of Queensland in 2003. Currently, she serves as the Director of Metafuture, a global think-tank, and Metafuture School, an online platform offering futures-oriented courses.
Since the mid-1990s, Ivana has been actively engaged in delivering speeches, facilitating workshops, and conducting research for various governmental institutions, international associations, and non-governmental organizations across diverse regions, including Asia-Pacific (e.g., Armenia, Australia, Cambodia, Brunei Darussalam, Iran, Malaysia, New Zealand, Pakistan, Philippines, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, UAE, and US-Hawaii), Africa (Morocco, South Africa), and Europe (Austria, Croatia, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Hungary, Italy, Serbia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and Turkey). She has held academic positions at several universities, including the University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia (Adjunct Professor, 2009-2015), University of Novi Sad, Serbia (Visiting Professor, 2008-2017), and Tamkang University, Taiwan (2015). In 2016-2017, she led the foresight unit at the Centre for Strategic and Policy Studies in Brunei Darussalam. Since 2022, Ivana has served as a Senior Futures Thinking and Foresight Specialist/Consultant with the Asian Development Bank.
Supporting Facilitators during the training
Mr. Jost Wagner is an award-winning facilitation expert, process consultant and Futures Thinking practitioner. Jost Wagner is a Certified Professional Facilitator / Master Level © by the International Association of Facilitators and the founder and Managing Director of The Change Initiative Co. Ltd. With 500+ workshops under his belt he is one of the most experienced authorities in the art and mastery of facilitation based in Asia and he has trained more than 1000+ people in facilitation skills and interactive learning methodologies. In 2023 he received an IAF Facilitation impact award for his work with GIZ on Ecosystem Restoration.
A sociologist and economist by training, he has facilitated extensively in all areas of the Sustainable Development Goals. Since 2014 he is also a promoter and practitioner of the use of Futures Thinking and Foresight in Strategy Development in development organizations Since 2022, he is also the Executive Director (Chief Navigator) of the Asia-Pacific Futures Network and he was the acting Conference Director the Asia-Pacific Futures Network Conferences (APFN) in 2018 and 2019 in Bangkok and 2021 and 2022 (virtually). He also co-organized the 2023 APFN conference in September 2023 in Kuala Lumpur
Dr. Meimei Song, EdD is a futurist and an educator. She is the Founder and Director of Futures3. With experience in conducting Futures workshops in both English and Mandarin, Dr. Song brings Futures Thinking to a wide variety of people: including high-level executives from multi-national companies, policy-makers in various government organizations, product developers, as well as teachers and students of different educational levels.
Dr. Song is an adjunct professor at D-School at National Taiwan University, teaching courses that intersect Design Thinking and Futures Thinking. She received her MA and EdD from Teachers College, Columbia University in the City of New York.
Meimei Song has had more than 17 years of teaching and research experience in Futures Studies at Tamkang University, Taiwan, where she served as an Associate Professor at the Graduate Institute of Futures Studies. She was also the Founder and Director of the Center for Futures Intelligence and Research (C-FAR) there. Dr. Song’s research focuses include using futures as a medium for transdisciplinary education, integration of Futures and Design Thinking, creativity in engineering education, and Experiential Futures.
Support during the training
Nathamon (Apple) Tanapurihiran has been with The Change Initiative from its first days in 2007. Prior to her work with our organisation she was involved in many start-up businesses from export-import to the hospitality industry, which is reflected in her excellent organisational and problem-solving skills. Therefore, it is no surprise that she started as the office manager and handled all event support. Over the years her interest in facilitation grew into passion. Working side by side with Jost Wagner, she has become a skillful facilitator and has co-facilitated a continuously growing number of workshops.
She is experienced in methods such as Open Space, World Café, Team Retrospectives, and many more, and attended a number of trainings by leading experts in Asia. She is a member of the International Association of Facilitators and the Facilitator Forum Thailand. Together with Ittinat Seeboonruang, she forms a tandem and likes to facilitate Thai language workshops.
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