Dr Maha Hosain Aziz is a professor, author and speaker in global risk and future trends at NYU’s MA International Relations Program, leading the annual global prediction project with crowdsourced consultancy Wikistrat; she is a risk expert on the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council, co-chair in policy at think tank Digital Economist and senior advisor at Enlighten Advisory. She has written a trilogy of books: award-winning bestseller Future World Order (2020), Global Spring (2025) and 10 Shock Events By 2030 (2025). She also created award-winning VR/AR political comic book The Global Kid (2021), drew the award-winning original (2016) and is working on Evolution (2025) – a comic book about global extremism partly created by generative AI. She is a global citizen with Pakistani Muslim 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).