Sohail Inayatullah Explained

Sohail Inayatullah
Birth Place:Lahore, Pakistan
Nationality:Australian
Education:
Alma Mater:University of Hawaiʻi
Workplaces:
  • UNESCO Chair in Futures Studies
  • Sejahtera Centre for Sustainability and Humanity
  • Professor of Futures Studies, College of Education, Tamkang University
Known For:Causal layered analysis
Notable Works:
  • Macrohistroy and Macrohistorians (1997)
  • What Works: Case Studies in the Practice of Foresight (2015)
  • Understanding Sarkar (2002)
  • CLA Reader (2004)
  • CLA 2.0 (2015)
  • CLA 3.0 (2022)
Spouse:Ivana Milojevic
Children:2
Awards:Honorary Doctorate, Universiti Sains Malaysia

Sohail Inayatullah is a Pakistani-born Australian academic, futures studies researcher and a professor at the Graduate Institute of Futures Studies at Tamkang University in Taipei, Taiwan.[1] [2] [3]

Biography

Born in 1958 in Lahore, Pakistan, to a father who worked as a researcher for the United Nations and a Sufi mother, he grew up in numerous countries including the United States, Switzerland and Malaysia. His  main influences include James Dator, Johan Galtung, William Irwin Thompson and in particular P. R. Sarkar.[4]

Academic contributions

Inayatullah is most famous for introducing and pioneering the futures technique of causal layered analysis, that uses a four-layered approach to bring about transformative change.[5] [6] He introduced the idea in a widely cited paper for Futures.[7] He also edited and wrote the introductory chapter for the Causal Layered Analysis (CLA) Reader.[8] He has described the idea for a popular audience in an article for The Futurist and a TEDx talk.[9]

Inayatullah's work on CLA was examined in a book by Jose W. Ramos in 2003.[10] He also invented the method known as, the Futures Triangle,[11] [12] the Integrated Scenario Method,[13] and with Ivana Milojevic, the Change Progression Scenario Method.[14]

Academic positions

In addition to his role at Tamkang University, Inayatullah is the UNESCO Chair in Futures Studies at the Sejahtera Centre for Sustainability and Humanity, IIUM, Malaysia[15] From 2016 to 2021, he was the UNESCO Chair in Futures Studies at USIM, Malaysia. He was also an adjunct professor at the Centre for Policing, Intelligence and Counter-Terrorism, Macquarie University, Sydney,[16] from 2011 to 2014 and adjunct professor at the University of the Sunshine Coast (Faculty of Social Sciences and the Arts) from 2001 to 2020.[2] [17] [18]

Role in journals and web publications

Inayatullah is co-editor (along with Jose Ramos, Anisah Abdullah, and Kuo-Hua Chen) of the Journal of Futures Studies, one of the top journals in futures studies.[19] He is on the editorial boards of Futures,[20] Journal of Foresight and Thought Leadership,[21] World Futures, Futures and Foresight Science,[22] World Futures Review and foresight.[23]

Inayatullah is also the co-founder of educational think tank Metafuture.org along with Dr. Ivana Milojević.[24]

Other affiliations

Inayatullah is a member of the World Future Society and blogs at the Journal of Futures Studies website. He is also a Fellow of the World Futures Studies Federation.[25] He has also voiced his support for the Campaign for the Establishment of a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly, an organisation which campaigns for democratic reform in the United Nations.[26]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 專任師資. Tamkang University. 25 February 2021.
  2. Web site: Sohail Inayatullah . 2 July 2014 . School of International Futures.
  3. News: The Pakistani Nostradamus. Dawn. 11 January 2015. 15 October 2015. Puruesh. Chaudhary. Puruesh Chaudhary.
  4. José M. Ramos, From Critique to Cultural Recovery: Critical Futures Studies and Causal Layered Analysis, Australian Foresight Institute, Swinburne University of Technology, 2003, p. 34
  5. Inayatullah . Sohail . January–February 2014 . Causal Layered Analysis Defined . The Futurist . . 48 . 1 . 2 July 2014.
  6. Web site: Causal Layered Analysis . 2 July 2014 . Scenarios for Sustainability Recipes.
  7. Causal layered analysis: Poststructuralism as method. 10.1016/S0016-3287(98)00086-X. Futures. 30. 8. October 1998. 2 July 2014. Inayatullah. Sohail. 815–829.
  8. Web site: The Causal Layered Analysis (CLA) Reader: Theory and Case Studies of an Integrative and Transformative Methodology . 2 July 2014.
  9. Web site: Inayatullah . Sohail . 12 May 2013 . Causal Layered Analysis: Sohail Inayatullah at TEDxNoosa . 2 July 2014.
  10. Web site: Ramos . Jose W. . 2003 . From critique to cultural recovery: critical futures studies and casual layered analysis . 2 July 2014 . Australian Foresight Institute.
  11. Inayatullah . Sohail . 2008-01-01 . Six pillars: futures thinking for transforming . Foresight . 10 . 1 . 4–21 . 10.1108/14636680810855991 . 1463-6689.
  12. Web site: Riedy . Chris . 2017-06-15 . The futures triangle . 2022-12-13 . Medium . en.
  13. Web site: Inayatullah . Sohail . Futures Studies: Theories and Methods . 2022-12-13 . OpenMind . en-US.
  14. Web site: Asia-Pacific Futures in 2040 : raising ambitions for a healthy environment . 2022-12-14 . ESCAP . EN.
  15. Web site: IIUM UNESCO Chair on Futures Studies: Anticipation for Sustainability and Wellbeing – International Islamic University Malaysia . 2022-10-19 . www.iium.edu.my.
  16. Web site: Sohail Inayatullah. Macquarie University. 2 July 2014. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20140714162334/http://www.mq.edu.au/about_us/faculties_and_departments/faculty_of_arts/department_of_policing_intelligence_and_counter_terrorism/about_pict/staff/sohail_inayatullah/. 14 July 2014. dmy-all.
  17. Web site: Professor receives global futurist award. 19 January 2011. 2 July 2014. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20140714111557/http://www.usc.edu.au/university/news-and-events/news/2011/january/professor-receives-global-futurist-award. 14 July 2014. dmy-all.
  18. Web site: Metafuture: About us. Metafuture. 25 February 2021.
  19. Editors. Journal of Futures Studies. 2 July 2014.
  20. Web site: Futures Editorial Board. Futures, Elsevier. 2 July 2014.
  21. Web site: Members of the Editorial Team . 2022-12-13 . joftl.org.
  22. Web site: Futures Publications – Journals – WORLD FUTURES STUDIES FEDERATION . 2022-12-13 . en-US.
  23. Web site: Editorial team. foresight, Emerald Publishing Group. 2 July 2014.
  24. Web site: Metafuture. Facilitating Futures. 25 February 2021.
  25. Web site: WFSF Fellows. World Futures Studies Federation. 2 July 2014.
  26. News: Overview. Campaign for a UN Parliamentary Assembly. 2017-10-12. en-US.

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