Dr Maha Hosain Aziz
IR Professor & Member, NYU | World Economic Forum. Dr Maha Hosain Aziz is a professor, author and speaker in global risk and future trends based at NYU's MA International Relations Program, leading the annual global risk prediction project with crowdsourced consultancy Wikistrat; she is a risk and foresight expert advising the World Economic Forum, co-chair in tech policy overseeing the AI Policy Brief Series at think tank The Digital Economist and senior advisor on geopolitics at global boutique firm Enlighten Advisory. She has written a trilogy of books: 7-time award-winning bestseller Future World Order (2020 & 2025), Global Spring (2026) and 10 Shock Events By 2030 (2026). She also created the 10-time award-winning VR/AR political comic book The Global Kid (2021), drew the 7-time award-winning original (2016) and is working on Evolution (2026) – a comic book about global extremism partly created by generative AI. She is a global citizen with Pakistani roots who grew up in the Middle East, Southeast Asia, Europe and the US, studying at Brown (BA), Columbia (MA) and the LSE (MSc, PhD).