Sohail Inayatullah

Sohail Inayatullah, a political scientist and futurist, is the UNESCO Chair in Futures Studies at the Sejahtera Centre for Sustainability and Humanity, Malaysia. He is also Professor at Tamkang University, Taiwan and Associate, Melbourne Business School, the University of Melbourne. He teaches from www.metafutureschool.org where his courses include Become a Futurist: Futures 101 and Personal Futures: the CLA of the Self. In 2021, he was virtual futurist-in-residence with the government of Abu Dhabi, Culture and Tourism.

Ralph Mercer

Ralph Mercer is a Technology Culturalist exploring the intersection of the Philosophy of Posthumanism, Technology and Futures Studies. He is currently exploring CLA as a practical means to conduct Red Teaming activites for organizations and the use of CLA as methodology for “Posthumanist Reading” of literature and textual data. Ralph Mercer is also Adjunct Fellow within the School of Law and Society at University of the Sunshine Coast.

Ivanna Milojević

Ivana Milojević is a researcher, writer and educator with a trans-disciplinary professional background in sociology, education, gender, peace and futures studies. She has held professorships at several universities in Australia (The University of Queensland and The University of the Sunshine Coast), Serbia (University of Novi Sad) and Taiwan (Tamkang University). Milojević is the author of over seventy journal articles and book chapters, as well as the author, co-author and/or co-editor of a number of academic books. These include: CLA 2.0: Transformative Research in Theory and Practice (2015); Breathing: Violence In, Peace Out (2013); a special issue of Futures on Feminism/ Gender (2008); and Educational Futures: Dominant and Contesting Visions (2005, 2011). She is currently the Director of Metafuture.org and MetafutureSchool.org where she teaches Conflict Transformation Futures course.

John A. Sweeney

John A. Sweeney is a futurist and researcher who has organized, managed, and facilitated workshops and seminars, multi-stakeholder projects, and foresight gaming systems in over 45 countries on five continents and online with participants from around the world. At present, John is a Senior Research Fellow at Westminster International University in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. He also currently serves as Co-Editor-in-Chief of World Futures Review: A Journal of Strategic Foresight. He also serves on the faculty for the University of Houston’s MA Program in Foresight. His work has been published in Futures, Futures & Foresight Science, The Journal of Futures Studies, and other academic and media outlets. He tweets on trends, emerging issues, and things just over the horizon at @aloha_futures.