Dr Maha Aziz
- World Economic Forum Complex Risk Expert on their Global Future Council
- NYU Professor focused on Global Risk, Prediction, & Future Trends
- Leads the annual NYU global risk prediction project with Wikistrat (the world’s first crowdsourced consultancy)
- Bestselling Author of Book Trilogy: "Future World Order" (2020), "Global Spring" (2024), & "10 Shock Events By 2030" (2024)
NYU Professor, Bestselling Author, Award-Winning Cartoonist and World Economic Forum Expert Dr Maha Hosain Aziz is on a mission to help others make sense of a world of growing global risk in a dangerous era of shock events, so they can make better decisions. She has been called a “global thinker to watch” by public...
read the restNYU Professor, Bestselling Author, Award-Winning Cartoonist and World Economic Forum Expert Dr Maha Hosain Aziz is on a mission to help others make sense of a world of growing global risk in a dangerous era of shock events, so they can make better decisions. She has been called a “global thinker to watch” by public intellectuals like Nouriel Roubini in a field largely dominated by men.
Researching Future Risks, Shocks and Strategy
Maha is a professor focused on global risk and future trends at NYU’s MA International Relations Program, leading the annual global risk prediction project with Wikistrat, the world’s first crowdsourced consultancy (a project she launched at NYU in partnership with Wikistrat).
Maha is a professor focused on global risk and future trends at NYU’s MA International Relations Program, leading the annual global risk prediction project with Wikistrat, the world’s first crowdsourced consultancy (a project she launched at NYU in partnership with Wikistrat).
She has served on the Global Future Council on Risk at the World Economic Forum since 2020, researching global risks like climate change and artificial intelligence as well as strategies to tackle them.
Bestselling Author Of A Trilogy Of Books On The Future Of Our World Order
Maha is the author of the seven-time award-winning bestseller, Future World Order (2020), which has been called a “must-read” by public intellectuals like Dr Ian Bremmer and Kishore Mahbubani; she donated 15% of her book profits to the Abid Aziz Fund for Syrian refugee youth in Jordan’s Za’atari camp via charity Peace and Sport to honor her late brother. Her two sequels include Global Spring: Predictions for a Post-Pandemic World (2024) and 10 Shock Events By 2030 (2024). Her ideas have been featured in outlets including the Huffington Post, Vanity Fair, Newsweek, Forbes, CNN, Observer, Businessweek, Bloomberg and Tatler.
Maha is the author of the seven-time award-winning bestseller, Future World Order (2020), which has been called a “must-read” by public intellectuals like Dr Ian Bremmer and Kishore Mahbubani; she donated 15% of her book profits to the Abid Aziz Fund for Syrian refugee youth in Jordan’s Za’atari camp via charity Peace and Sport to honor her late brother. Her two sequels include Global Spring: Predictions for a Post-Pandemic World (2024) and 10 Shock Events By 2030 (2024). Her ideas have been featured in outlets including the Huffington Post, Vanity Fair, Newsweek, Forbes, CNN, Observer, Businessweek, Bloomberg and Tatler.
Powerful Speaker On The Future Trends Shaping Our Post-Pandemic World In The 2020s
Maha is a keynote speaker to government, nonprofit and corporate audiences worldwide, speaking everywhere from COP27 in Sharm el Sheikh, the United Nations in New York City and European Parliament in Brussels to the Bosphorus Forum in Istanbul, Petronas’ Energy Asia in KL and Cyfy Africa in Tangier. Her recent virtual and in-person speaking engagements have focused on predicting what’s next in a post-pandemic world in terms of geopolitical, political, economic and social risks and shocks, including the impact of the war, tech and climate this decade.
Maha is a keynote speaker to government, nonprofit and corporate audiences worldwide, speaking everywhere from COP27 in Sharm el Sheikh, the United Nations in New York City and European Parliament in Brussels to the Bosphorus Forum in Istanbul, Petronas’ Energy Asia in KL and Cyfy Africa in Tangier. Her recent virtual and in-person speaking engagements have focused on predicting what’s next in a post-pandemic world in terms of geopolitical, political, economic and social risks and shocks, including the impact of the war, tech and climate this decade.
An Award-Winning Creator Of Comic Books To Teach All Ages About Future Global Challenges
Maha’s childhood dream was to be a cartoonist! She drew her first, seven-time award-winning political comic book, The Global Kid, in 2016 to teach kids about the world, given her own childhood living in 7 countries by age 14. She then created the ten-time award-winning VR/AR political comic book sequel in 2021 for tweens (with edtech partner Musemio in London and collaborator AR Market in Rome). She is working on her first political comic book for adults on global extremism called Evolution (2024) using generative AI.
Maha’s childhood dream was to be a cartoonist! She drew her first, seven-time award-winning political comic book, The Global Kid, in 2016 to teach kids about the world, given her own childhood living in 7 countries by age 14. She then created the ten-time award-winning VR/AR political comic book sequel in 2021 for tweens (with edtech partner Musemio in London and collaborator AR Market in Rome). She is working on her first political comic book for adults on global extremism called Evolution (2024) using generative AI.
Previously…
Maha was a visiting fellow at the London School of Economics’ Institute of Global Affairs; a senior fellow at the World Policy Institute; chairwoman of the New Silk Road Generation, the first e-mentoring program for university students in Afghanistan; a senior teaching fellow in the Politics and International Studies Department, SOAS University of London; a columnist at Businessweek; and an investment banker at Credit Suisse. She is a Jordanian-born global citizen with Pakistani Muslim roots who grew up in the Middle East (Jordan, Saudi Arabia), Southeast Asia (Singapore, Malaysia), Europe (UK, Greece) and the US. She is a social scientist who trained at Brown (BA), Columbia (MA) and the LSE (MSc, PhD), also earning a research certification in Leveraging Crowds in the Public Sector at the NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering.
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Maha was a visiting fellow at the London School of Economics’ Institute of Global Affairs; a senior fellow at the World Policy Institute; chairwoman of the New Silk Road Generation, the first e-mentoring program for university students in Afghanistan; a senior teaching fellow in the Politics and International Studies Department, SOAS University of London; a columnist at Businessweek; and an investment banker at Credit Suisse. She is a Jordanian-born global citizen with Pakistani Muslim roots who grew up in the Middle East (Jordan, Saudi Arabia), Southeast Asia (Singapore, Malaysia), Europe (UK, Greece) and the US. She is a social scientist who trained at Brown (BA), Columbia (MA) and the LSE (MSc, PhD), also earning a research certification in Leveraging Crowds in the Public Sector at the NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering.
Dr Ian Bremmer and Kishore Mahbubani named “Future World Order” a“must-read” and Dr Nouriel Roubini named her a “global thinker to watch”.
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