Dr. Maha Hosain Aziz

Dr Maha Hosain Aziz is a professor and author in global risk and future trends at NYU's MA IR Program and a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council. She wrote a trilogy of books including bestseller Future World Order (2019), Global Spring (2023) and 10 Shock Events By 2030 (2024). She created ten-time award-winning VR/AR political comic The Global Kid (2021) with edtech partner Musemio, drew the seven-time award-winning original (2016) and is working on Evolution (2024) – a comic book about global extremism.

She is a Jordanian-born Pakistani who grew up in the Middle East, Southeast Asia, Europe and the US, studying at Brown (BA), Columbia (MA) and LSE (MSc, PhD).