Maha Hosain Aziz

Dr Maha Hosain Aziz has crafted a unique portfolio career in global risk and future trends based at NYU's MA International Relations Program: she is a professor leading the annual global risk prediction project with crowdsourced consultancy Wikistrat and also creating data-driven risk indices with AI tools; a risk and foresight expert advising the World Economic Forum; a co-chair in AI policy at think tank The Digital Economist (TDE), directing the NYU-TDE AI Policy Paper Series; and a senior advisor on geopolitics at global impact firm Enlighten Advisory. She has written a trilogy of books: 7-time award-winning bestseller Future World Order (2020), 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 (2027) – a comic book about global extremism partly created by generative AI. She is a global citizen with Pakistani r