Director

Victor V. Motti, USA

Born and raised in the Middle East and based in Washington, D.C., Victor Vahidi Motti is a distinguished self-taught foresight scholar.

He is the co-founder of the Alternative Planetary Futures Institute and currently serves as the Executive Director of the World Futures Studies Federation (WFSF) founded in 1973 with 300+ institutional and individual members from 60+ countries and is the Managing Editor of the European Journal of Futures Research (EJFR) published by Springer Nature.

He is holder of USA National Interest Waiver (NIW) in Strategic Foresight and an invited speaker at business events and academic conferences. He has been a guest speaker at international conferences in the Americas, Europe, Africa, and Asia, speaking on key driving forces of change and major transformations at planetary and regional levels for the horizons of 2030, 2050, 2060, 2100, and 3000.

Recent Publications

  • Motti, Victor V. (2025). Planetary foresight and ethics: A vision for humanity’s futures, USA: Washington, D.C. Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing
  • Motti, Victor V. (2024). Planetary foresight: Navigating the future shifts. Middle East Institute. Washington, D.C., USA.
  • Motti, Victor V., Glenn, J., Di Berardo, M. Pelton, J., Gardner, A., Mengel, T., Mureithi, L. (2023). Futures Studies: Contributions and Sources, Washington, D.C., Alternative Planetary Futures Institute (Ap-Fi).
  • Motti, Victor V. (2022). Futures Studies. In The Palgrave Encyclopedia of the Possible. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98390-5_269-1
  • Motti, Victor V. (2021). Richard Slaughter: The master interpreter of alternative planetary futures, Futures, Elsevier. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2021.102796
  • Motti, Victor V. (2019). A Transformation Journey to Creative and Alternative Planetary Futures, UK: Newcastle, Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
  • Motti, Victor V. (2017). Sources of Futures Studies from Foresight to Anticipation. In Handbook of Anticipation. Cham: Springer. doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31737-3_98-1

Recent Invited Lectures

  • Embracing Planetization: A Paradigm Shift for Global Harmony, HSE University, 17 April 2025, Russia
  • Embracing Planetization: A Paradigm Shift for Global Harmony, Living in Space Initiative, 13 February 2025, USA
  • Planetary Foresight: Navigating the Future Shifts, Brandeis University MENA Economics Club, 7 November 2024, USA
  • Introducing World Futures Studies Federation (WFSF), BRICSX Marketplace, 31 October 2024, USA
  • Embracing Planetization: A Paradigm Shift for Global Harmony, SIDS (Small Island Developing States) SMART Futures Festival, 24 May 2024, The Futures Forum, USA
  • Exploring Symbolic Value Across Temporal and Spatial Dimensions: A Journey into the Futures of Human Consciousness, 12 April 2024, Classic Planning Institute, USA
  • Evolving Pathways of the Futures Studies Histories in the World, 13 December 2023, Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd Center for Futuristic Studies, Saudi Arabia
  • Planetary Foresight; Looking at the Strategic Horizon, 27 May 2023, Islamic World Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (ICESCO), Morocco
  • Drivers of Change and Lifestyle in 2050: A Decentralized and Autonomous Futurescape, 27 April 2021, Paris Institute for Advanced Study, France
  • Drivers of Change and Lifestyle in 2050: A Decentralized and Autonomous Futurescape, 17 March 2021, Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd Center for Futuristic Studies, Saudi Arabia
  • Drivers of Change and Lifestyle in 2050: A Decentralized and Autonomous Futurescape, 27 February 2021, Classic Planning Institute, USA
  • An introduction to the Introduction to the World History, 23 December 2020, Islamic World Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (ICESCO), Morocco
  • Evolving Cultural Identities in a Planetary Era, 4 May 2017, Royal Institute for Strategic Studies (IRES), Morocco
  • Strategic Foresight; From theory to practice in the Middle East & North Africa, 18 May 2016, University of Trento, Italy
  • Global and Placeless Brains: A Third Culture Perspective, 8 April 2011, Fondazione Intercultura, Italy
  • Global Transitions and Asia 2060: Climate, Political-Economy, and Identity, 5 November 2010, Tamkang University, Taiwan

Recent Podcast and Interviews

  • Alternative Planetary Futures: A Transformative Journey to Collective Consciousness by Geoffrey Holland
  • Alternative Planetary Futures, by Peter Hayward
  • Conversations on the future we want UN AGENDA 2030, by Claire A. Nelson
  • Wise Futures of Infinite Time and Space, by Peter Hayward
  • Re-Writing the Future, Everywoman, by Rebecca Lewis