Director – WORLD FUTURES STUDIES FEDERATION

Victor V. Motti, MENA

Victor V. Motti is an international writer, scenario builder, decision analyst, and strategic foresight adviser with a focus on civilizational and integrative futures studies.

His 2019 book published in the UK, now available also in Kindle edition on Amazon, is titled Alternative Planetary Futures. He is the Director of the World Futures Studies Federation (WFSF) since 2017, was the recipient of the WFSF President’s Outstanding Young Futurist Award in 2013, and is the Managing Editor of the European Journal of Futures Research (EJFR) published by Springer.

He has been a guest speaker at international conferences in Americas, Europe, Africa and Asia, speaking on key driving forces of change and major transformations at planetary and regional levels for the 2030, 2050 and 2060 horizons.

Born and raised in the Middle East, he reads English, Arabic, Italian, Persian and German. He is a self-taught independent scholar advocating scientific pantheism and an inspirational leader for embracing the complex experience of planetary identity.

Recent Publications

Motti, Victor Vahidi (2019), A Transformation Journey to Creative and Alternative Planetary Futures, UK: Newcastle, Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Reviews by: Patricia Lustig|Sarah Le-Fevre|Timothy Dolan|Timothy Mack|Bob Frame|Thomas Mengel|Thomas Lombardo
Sources of Futures Studies from Foresight to Anticipation, in Handbook of Anticipation (2017), Edited by Roberto Poli, Springer
Life in 2035: Future Consciousness, Cyborgs and Wisdom, in The Future of Business, (2015), Edited by Rohit Talwar, UK, Kent: Fast Future Publishing

Recent Invited Lectures

Recent Podcast and Interviews:

In July 2016 and May 2017 he joined a select International panel of futurists from developed and developing countries at the Royal Institute for Strategic Studies (IRES) in Morocco to explore key transitions at global and regional levels for 2030 and 2050 horizons. And in May 2016 he gave a seminar at the University of Trento in Italy on futures studies in the Middle East and North Africa, based on a recent paper he wrote for the Word Future Review.

He was an invited scholar to speak at International Conferences: a) 2011, April: Italy, Reconciling Babel: Education for Cosmopolitanism, b) 2010, November: Taiwan, Global Transitions and Asia 2060: Climate, Political-Economy, and Identity.