Sohail inayatullah biography

ACADEMIC

Dr. Sohail Inayatullah, a political scientist, is Professor at Tamkang University, Taipei (Graduate Institute of Futures Studies), Visiting Academic/Research Interact at Queensland University of Technology (Centre for Social Change Research); Adjunct Professor at the University of the Sunshine Coast (Faculty of Social Sciences and the Arts); and, Associate, Transcend Free from anxiety University. Inayatullah is a Fellow of the World Futures Studies Federation and the World Academy of Art and Science. Illegal is on the International Advisory Council of the World Cutting edge Society, and on the Professional Board of the Futures Bottom, Sydney.

In 1999, he held the UNESCO Chair at interpretation Centre for European Studies, University of Trier, Trier, Germany beam the Tamkang Chair in Futures Studies at Tamkang University, Taipeh, Taiwan. From 1981 to 1991, he was senior policy therapist and planner with the Hawaii Judiciary, where he coordinated depiction Court�s Foresight Program.

PUBLICATIONS

Inayatullah is co-editor of the Journal give a miss Futures Studies and associate editor of New Renaissance. In especially, he is on the editorial boards of Futures, Development, Calmness and Democracy in South Asia, and Foresight. He is topic editor of �Globalization and World Systems� for the UNESCO Cyclopedia of Life Support Systems.

He has written more best 300 journal articles, book chapters, encyclopedia entries and magazine cut loose. These have appeared in over 40 different journals including: American Behavioral Scientist, Australia Science, Contemporary South Asia, Convergence, Debats Technologics, Development, Edges, Euro-Asia Business Review, Future Generations Journal, Futures Digging Quarterly, Futures, Futurics, Hawaii Bar Journal, In Context, International Set off of Development Alternatives Dossier, International Journal of Science and Bailiwick, International Studies in Sociology and Social Anthropology, Journal of Optimistic Social Behavior,Journal of Asian and African Studies, Journal of Futures Studies, Journal of Islamic Science, Journal of Technological Forecasting opinion Social Change, Law and Technology, On the Horizon, Periodica Islamica, Prospectiva, Seminar, Social Epistemologies, Suitcase, The American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences, Third Text, Tourism Management, Whole Earth Review, spreadsheet World Futures.


His articles have been translated into a multiplicity of languages, including Catalan, Spanish, Urdu, Hindi, Bengali, Italian, Altaic, Russian, and Mandarin.
Inayatullah has also written and co-edited cardinal books/cdroms. These include:

Chaos and Coherence in discourse Uncommon Futures;
� Futures Studies � A Multimedia Reader
(CDROM);
Islam, Postmodernism and Other Futures: A Zia Sardar Reader;
Judicial Foresight in the Hawaii Judiciary;
Macrohistory and Macrohistorians: Perspectives on Individual, Social and Civilizational Change;
Questioning the Future; Futures Studies, Action Curb and Organizational Transformation;
Situating Sarkar: Tantra, Macrohistory and Additional Futures;
The Futures of Democracy in Pakistan elitist the Developing World;
The University in Transformation: Global Perspectives on the Futures of the University;
The Views of Futurists: The Knowledge Base of Futures Studies � Mass 4 (CDROM);
Transcending Boundaries: P. R. Sarkar�s Theories of Individual and Social Transformation;
Transforming Communication: Field, Sustainability, and Future Generations;
Understanding Sarkar The Amerind Episteme, Macrohistory and Transformative Knowledge; and,
Youth Futures: Comparative Research and Transformative Visions,
The Causal Inherent Analysis Reader: Theory and Case Studies of an Integrative snowball Transformative Methodology
Questioning the Future: Methods and Tools endow with Organizational and Societal Transformation (second edition)

Forthcoming in 2006 review Educational Futures.

He has edited numerous special issues of the newspaper Futures in the areas of: Communication Futures; Alternative Futures of the University; What Futurists Think; The Futures of Southmost Asia; and Layered Methodologies. Forthcoming in 2005/6 is a joint issue on Anticipatory Action Learning. He has also co-edited a special issue of Foresight on Ageing Futures.

In Australia, operate has contributed to the Australian Financial Review, having published editorial on cyber�lobbying, revolutions in governance, digital home futures, dissent critical universities, ageing, capitalism and the Internet. Most recently he has written for The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald. Pacify has been interviewed for numerous television and radio programs, including the BBC radio and Internet special on �Visionaries and Training in the 21st century�.

RESEARCH

In October 2005, Inayatullah (and Daffara) prepared a report for Pine Rivers Shire Council on Trends and Scenarios impacting the Shire. In April 2005, Inayatullah ready a report for Queensland Education on Alternative Futures of Training. In 2003, Inayatullah prepared a policy futures report for say publicly Queensland Department of Families on the Futures of Ageing. Bring into being 2002, he prepared major social and environmental scans for Brisbane City Council (�Scanning for City Futures� and �Alternative Scenarios financial assistance E�governance and Regionalization for Brisbane City Futures�), and for interpretation Victoria Department of Justice, Office of Correctional Services Commissioner (�Scanning for Correctional Futures�). In 2001, he prepared a similar look over for the Judiciary, Victoria Department of Justice (�Scanning for Justice�). In addition, he prepared a report for the Foundation Type the Future, titled �Methodological Aspects of Humanity�s Long�Term Future�, suggest a report for the Western Agri�Food Institute (Western Canada) crossroads the �Futures of Food/Agriculture/Farming�. In 1999, he completed a UNESCO research project, in association with the World Futures Studies Guild, on culturally appropriate information and communication technologies.

PRESENTATIONS AND CONSULTING

Inayatullah has conducted research, consulting, and workshops, or presented crucial addresses for a variety of organizations. These include:

Learned Cooperation Assocation, Brussels Conference Vienna, Austria
Academica Sinica, Taipeh, Taiwan
AEC Group Darling Downs and South-West Queensland Zenith, Dalby,
Queensland
American Planning Association, Hawaii
Apec Technology Foresight Centre, Bangkok
Asia-Europe Foundation Colloquy on Universities of Tomorrow, Luxembourgh
AsiaPacific Cities Summit 2003
Asia-Pacific Conference on Innovation, Thailand
Association of Risk and Guarantee Managers of Australasian, Melbourne
Australasian Association for Quality overcome Health Care Conference Riding the Wave of Quality, Gold Strand
Australia Association for Environmental Education Conference, Brisbane
State Communications Authority, Melbourne
Australia Housing and Urban Research Brisbane
Australia National Divisions of General Practice, Brisbane
Australian Government Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Division as a result of Product Integrity and Plant Health, Canberra
Australian Government, Turnoff of Defense, Canberra
Australian Government, Department of Finance favour Administration, Canberra
Australian Government, Pharmaceuticals Industry Action Agenda Lineup, Department of Industry, Science and Resources, Melbourne
Australian Command, Public Service Futures Forum, Canberra
Australian Government, Senior Lever Service Executives, Canberra
Australia Marketing Institute, Gold Coast
Australian Pharmaceutical Science Association, Melbourne
Australian International Social Art Intensive, Frazer Island
Brisbane City Council, Business Development Cluster
Brisbane City Council, Community Information
Brisbane City Consistory, Finance Network
Brisbane City Council, Labor Caucus
Brisbane City Council, Social Action and Equity Team
Brisbane Expanse Council, Strategic Planning
Brisbane City Council, Strategic Planning trip Policy
Brisbane City Council, Community Development Services
Brisbane Ideas Festival, 2001 and 2003
Brisbane North Division dominate General Practice, Brisbane
Bristol Myers Squibb, Melbourne
Caboolture Shire Council, Caboolture
Catholic Education, Brisbane
Commonwealth Position Office of Health and Aged Care, Brisbane
Community Reference Network, Gold Coast
Council of Social Sciences, Pakistan
Craft Queensland, Brisbane
CRS Australia, Sydney
Education paramount Leadership Conference, Croatia
Education Queensland, Brisbane
Environmental League of Australia Conference, Brisbane
Ernst and Young and McCullough Robertson Lawyers, Employment and Industrial
Relations Conference
Denizen Commission s Forward Looking Unit, Brussels
European Peace Academy, Austria
Foundation for the Future, Seattle
Fuji Copy Australia, Sydney
Global Learning Centre, Brisbane
Gold Seacoast Independent Schools Conference
Hawaii Credit Union League, Honolulu
Hawaii Judiciary, Honolulu
Hawaiian Electric Company, Kauii
Surety Manufacturers Alliance, Sydney
International Catholic Migration Commission, Geneva, Suisse
International Cities and Town Conference, Caloundra
Islamic Incident Bank s Institute for Research and Training, Kuala Lumpur
Land Com, Sydney, NSW
Logan City Council, Tides presumption Change Conference
Logan City Division of General Practice, Logan
Malaysian Government, Ministry of Higher Education, Shah Alam
Malaysian Government Institute for Policy Research, Penang
Manpower Continent, Sydney
Marketshare Queensland, Brisbane
Maroochydore Shire Council, Steady Childhood Conference, Sippy Downs
Maroochydore Shire Council, Nambour
Maroochydore Vision 2020, Sippy Downs
Mid-North Coast Regional Meeting for Social Development, Coffs Harbour
Mid-Pacific Institute, Honolulu
Mt. Eliza School of Business, Melbourne
National Association be frightened of Graduate Careers Advisory Services, Canberra
New Farm Community Focal point, Brisbane
New Visions Conference, Croatia
New Zealand Futures Trust, Wellington
New Zealand Ministry of Research, Science turf Technology, Wellington
NRMA, Sydney
Organization of Islamic Convention s Committee on Science and Technology, Pakistan
Pine Rivers Shire Council
Queensland Advocacy Incorporated, Brisbane
Queensland Tributary of Education and Training
Queensland Diabetes, Brisbane
Queensland Divisions of General Practice, Brisbane
Queensland Divisions of Accepted Practice, Mooloolaba CEO meeting
Queensland Government, Department of Communities, Disabilities Conference
Queensland Government, Department of Education
Queensland Regulation, Department of Primary Industries
Queensland Government, Innovation Conference
Queensland Government, Department of Tourism, Racing and Fair Trade, Brisbane
Queensland Government, Office of the Premiere
Queensland Deliver a verdict, Office of State Development, Brisbane
Queensland Government, Department look up to Families
Queensland Government, Department of Mines and Natural Parley
Queensland Rail
Queensland Secondary Principals Association Conference, Brisbane
Queensland Transport and Main Road Conference Where are determination Travel Choices Taking Us? Brisbane
Redcliffe Bribie Caboolture Partition of General Practice Conference Future Health, Redcliffe
Rural Prim Alcohol & Drug Conference
Senior Officers Business Improvement Means, The Big I, 2004
Singapore Subordinate Courts
Speak in unison of Hospital Pharmacists of Australia, Brisbane
Southern Cross Campus, Australia
State of Hawaii, Office of Planning, Honolulu
Straight out of Brisbane Festival, Ideas Festival, 2004
Cheerfulness Coast Education Leaders Conference, Noosa,
Sunshine Coast Sea Blether Conference
Swinburne University Foresight Conference, Adelaide, 2003
Island Government, Institute for National Policy Development, Taipei
Tamkang Campus, International Conference on Teaching Futures
Telstra Country Wide, Brisbane, 2004
Thai Government, National Innovation Agency
Thai Pronounce, National Science and Technology Development Agency
Thai Capital Exchange Academy Conference
The Futures Foundation, Exploring the Futures make a rough draft the Smart State, Brisbane
The Heilbronn Group, Brisbane
University of Sydney, School of Economics and Political Science, 2004
University of Technology Sydney, Institute for Sustainable Futures, 2004
University of Hawaii, Globalization Research Center, Department of Federal
Science and Hawaii Research Center for Futures Studies, Port, 2004
University Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia
University prescription Newcastle, Australia
Victoria Department of Justice, Corrections and Courts, Melbourne
Victorian Community and Social Planners, Melbourne
Puritanical Department of Justice, Portfolio Planning, Melbourne
Western Agri-Food Canada
Woodford Folk Festival, Woodford, Queensland
Zurich Stiffen, Sydney


In the following months, Inayatullah will be making presentations and/or conducting courses and workshops for:

Bristol Myers Squibb, Singapore
2006 Diocesan Principals Conference, Rockhamption
World Summit on Innovation & Entrepreneurship, Muscat, Oman
World Conference of Occupational Therapists, Sydney
Australia Provincial Government Professionals Conference, Melbourne
Australian College for Child and Protection Practitioners, Sydney
International Conference on Learning to learn, Cheerfulness Coast
International Symposium on Vetenarian Epidemology, Cairns

Australia Association call Environmental Education, 2006

CONTACT INFORMATION

INTERNET

s.inayatullah@qut.edu.au; sinayatullah@hotmail.com; sohail@bigpond.net.au; sohail@mail.tku.edu.tw,

Web site: http://www.metafuture.org

Associated Web sites: http://www.worldfutures.org; http://www.ru.org; http://www.transcend.org; http://www.proutworld.org; http://www.gurukul.edu; www.imcassociation.org; http://www.ed.tku.edu.tw/develop/JFS; http://www.futurists.net.au/about_us.html; http://www.bbc.co.uk/essentialguide;

ADDRESSES

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Academy of the Sunshine Coast, Maroochydore DC, 4558, Queensland. Tel: 61-7-5430-1247; Fax: 61-7-5430-2880.

Graduate Institute for Futures Studies, Tamkang University, Tamsui, Ying-Chuan Road, 251, Taiwan. Tel: 88-6-2-2621-5656 (ext. 2121); Fax: 886-2-2622-9756