SPEAKERS
Professor Sohail Inayatullah
Tamkang University, Taiwan and University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia. www.metafuture.org.
(Professor Sohail Inayatullah appears by arrangement with Saxton Management Group Pty Ltd)
Professor Sohail Inayatullah, a political scientist, is Professor at Tamkang University, Taipei (Graduate Institute of Futures Studies), Visiting Academic/Professor at Queensland University of Technology (Center for Service Innovation); Adjunct Professor at the University of the Sunshine Coast (Faculty of Social Sciences and the Arts), and Professor with the University of Action Learning (IMCA-International Management Centres Association). Inayatullah is Fellow of the World Futures Studies Federation and the World Academy of Art and Science. He is on the International Advisory Council of the World Future Society, and on the Professional Board of the Futures Foundation, Sydney.
In 1999, he held the UNESCO Chair at the Centre for European Studies, University of Trier, Trier, Germany and the Tamkang Chair in Futures Studies at Tamkang University, Taipei, Taiwan. From 1981-1991, he was senior policy analyst and planner with the Hawaii Judiciary, where he coordinated the Court's Foresight Program.
Publications
Inayatullah is co-editor of the Journal of Futures Studies and associate editor of New Renaissance. Inayatullah is on the editorial boards of Futures, Development and Foresight. He is theme editor on Globalization and World Systems for the UNESCO Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems.
He has written over 275 journal articles, book chapters, encyclopedia entries and magazine pieces. These have appeared in over 40 different journals including: Futures Research Quarterly, On the Horizon, Euro-Asia Business Review, Third Text, Whole Earth Review, Development, International Foundation of Development Alternatives Dossier, Social Epistemologies, International Journal of Science and Technology, Journal of Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Tourism Management, Futurics, Convergence, Seminar, The American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences, Edges, In Context, Suitcase, Contemporary South Asia, Journal of Asian and African Studies, International Studies in Sociology and Social Anthropology, World Futures, Prospectiva, Journal of Applied Social Behavior, Convergence, Journal of Islamic Science, Hawaii Bar Journal, Law and Technology, Periodica Islamica, Futures, Journal of Futures Studies, Australia Science, American Behavioral Scientist, Debats Technologics and Future Generations Journal.
His articles have been translated in a variety of languages, including Catalan, Spanish, Urdu, Hindi, Bengali, Italian, Japanese, Russian and Mandarin.
Inayatullah has also written and co-edited several books. These include:
- Judicial Foresight in the Hawaii Judiciary
- Chaos and Coherence in our Uncommon Futures
- The Futures of Democracy in Pakistan and the Developing World
- Macrohistory and Macrohistorians: Perspectives on Individual, Social and Civilizational Change
- Futures Studies - A Multimedia Reader (CDROM)
- Situating Sarkar: Tantra, Macrohistory and Alternative Futures
- Transcending Boundaries: P.R. Sarkar's Theories of Individual and Social Transformation
- The University in Transformation: Global Perspectives on the Futures of the University
- The Views of Futurists: The Knowledge Base of Futures Studies - Volume 4 (CD-ROM)
- Transforming Communication: Technology, Sustainability, and Future Generations
- Questioning the Future; Futures Studies, Action Learning and Organizational Transformation
- Understanding Sarkar The Indian Episteme, Macrohistory and Transformative Knowledge; and,
- Youth Futures: Comparative Research and Transformative Visions.
- Islam, Postmodernism and Other Futures: A Zia Sardar Reader
- Causal Layered Analysis
- The Rights of Robots: Intelligence, Society and Technology in the 21st Century.
He has edited numerous special issues of the journal Futures in the following areas: Communication Futures; Alternative Futures of the University; What Futurists Think; The Futures of South Asia; and Layered Methodologies.
In Australia, he has contributed to the Australian Financial Review, having published articles on cyberlobbying; revolutions in governance; digital home futures; dissent in universities, ageing, capitalism and the Internet. Most recently he has written for The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald. He has been interviewed by numerous television and radio programs including BBC's radio and internet special on Visionaries and Education in the 21st century.
Research
In 2003, he prepared a policy futures report for the Queensland Department of Families on the Futures of Aging. In 2002, he prepared major social and environmental scans for Brisbane City Council (Scanning for City Futures and Alternative Scenarios for E-governance and Regionalization for Brisbane City Futures) and for the Victoria Department of Justice, Office of Correctional Services Commissioner (Scanning for Correctional Futures). In 2001, he prepared a similar scan for the Judiciary, Victoria Department of Justice (Scanning for Justice).
In addition, he prepared a report for the Foundation for the Future titled Methodological Aspects of Humanity's Long-Term Future and a report for the Western Agri-Food Institute (Western Canada) on the Futures of Food/Agriculture/Farming. In 1999, he completed a UNESCO research project, in association with the World Futures Studies Federation, on culturally appropriate information and communication technologies.
