Nayef Al-Rodhan

Philosopher, Neuroscientist, Geostrategist & Honorary Fellow, St Antony's College, University of Oxford

Professor Nayef Al-Rodhan is a Philosopher, Neuroscientist, Geostrategist & Honorary Fellow at St.Antony's college, Oxford University.

He holds an MD and PhD, and was educated and worked at the Mayo Clinic, Yale and Harvard University in the US.

He is Head of the Geopolitics and Global Futures Program, Geneva Center for Security Policy, Switzerland, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Philosophy, School of Advanced Study, University of London, UK, and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA).

In 2014, he was voted as one of the Top 30 most influential Neuroscientists in the world, in 2017, he was named amongst the Top 100 geostrategists in the World, and in 2022, he was named as one of the Top 50 influential researchers whose work could shape 21st-century politics and policy.

He is a Prize-winning scholar who has written 25 books and more than 300 articles. His research focuses on the Transdisciplinary interplay between: Philosophy, Neuroscience, Geopolitics, Governance, Outer Space, Transcultural Security, Cascading Civilizational Frontier Risks, Disruptive Technologies (AI, Machine Learning & Synthetic Biology), Public Policy, International Relations and a Peaceful & Dignified Global Oder. His publications can be found here : www.sustainablehistory.com

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