Prof Aziz's Latest Opeds on Global Risks & Future Trends
Check out my oped on Five Shock Events By 2025 in Time Magazine and Four Global Risk Trends to Look For in the Post-Pandemic Era in the World Economic Forum's Agenda – these are based on a multi-year research project with my grad students in NYU's MA IR Program and experts at crowdsourced consultancy Wikistrat. Here is my co-written piece in Vanity Fair Italia on island nation Tuvalu's valiant climate fight (English translation). And last year's Global Risk List in Newsweek: five global trends, five countries to watch and five possible shock events, based on the 7th annual NYU-Wikistrat project.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Dr Maha Hosain Aziz is a professor, keynote speaker, author and cartoonist focused on global risk & future trends in NYU's MA International Relations Program. She is a risk expert in the World Economic Forum's Global Future Council, senior advisor at Enlighten Advisory and co-chair in Policy at think tank The Digital Economist; and on occasion she still consults via the world's first crowdsourced consultancy Wikistrat and other networks. Her 2016 political comic book, The Global Kid, won seven awards (all profits to charity) and was a Top 16 Amazon US bestseller; its ten-time award-winning sequel with VR/AR elements launched in Dec 2021 with edtech partner Musemio and contributor AR Market, hitting top 10 on Amazon bestsellers list in the US, Australia and Singapore; her first book Future World Order was a Top 10 Amazon US bestseller and won seven global awards (15% of profits went to her brother's memorial fund). She is a Jordanian-born Pakistani who grew up in the Middle East (Jordan, Saudi Arabia), Southeast Asia (Singapore, Malaysia), Europe (UK, Greece) and the US. And she is a social scientist trained at Brown (BA), Columbia (MA) and the LSE (MSc, PhD).
ABOUT THE BOOKS
Dr Aziz's books serve as a guide for readers to make better sense of the world at this sensitive turning point. FUTURE WORLD ORDER considers the tech-influenced global legitimacy crisis that will deepen in the 2020s. The book launched in 2019 at The Conduit and also in 2020 at the Commonwealth Secretariat in historic Marlborough House; it won seven global awards and is a Top 15 Amazon bestseller. 15% of Dr Aziz’s profits went to her late brother's memorial fund, the Abid Aziz Fund, which supports charity Peace & Sport's Syrian refugee youth project in Jordan's Za'atari camp (video of the kids here). Part two, A GLOBAL SPRING (2024), considers more predictions for a post-pandemic era. The final book in the trilogy 10 SHOCK EVENTS BY 2030 (2025) considers the less predictable risks that may destabilize our world order. Past interviews on the books: Scroll (2019), Hard News (2019), Asia Society (2020), Convoco Foundation (2022), Sales Pop! (2022), Common Denominator with Moshe Popack (2022), Eureka! podcast with BBC journalist Rick Edwards and scientist Dr Michael Brooks (2022); with more to come.
