Dr Maha Hosain Aziz

Dr Maha Hosain Aziz is a professor, author and cartoonist in the MA International Relations Program at New York University’s Graduate School of Arts & Sciences specializing in global risk and prediction, which she also teaches at various e-learning startups; she is a risk expert in the Global Future Council at the World Economic Forum. Her five-time award-winning first book, Future World Order (2019/2020), on global risk has been called a “must-read” (Dr Ian Bremmer, Kishore Mahbubani) written by a “global thinker to watch” (Dr Nouriel Roubini) and an “engaged scholar activist” (Dr Parag Khanna). This year she is launching her second book A Global Spring (50% of profits going to the WHO’s Solidarity Response Fund) and the VR/AR comic sequel to her six-time award-winning debut political comic book for tweens, The Global Kid (2016), in partnership with award-winning edtech startup Musemio. She is a former Businessweek columnist and Huffington Post blogger who also contributes to Medium. And on occasion    crowdsourced consultancy, and other networks. She is a Jordanian-born Pakistani who grew up in the Middle East (Jordan, Saudi Arabia), Southeast Asia (Singapore, Malaysia), Europe (UK, Greece) and the US. She is a social scientist trained at Brown (BA), Columbia (MA) and the LSE (MSc, PhD). She earned a Bachelor’s at Brown University, a Master’s at Columbia University, a Master’s and PhD at the LSE, and a research certification in Leveraging Crowds in the Public Sector at the NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering