Speaking
From the Elevate Festival in Graz
INSPIRING TRANSFORMATIVE LEADERSHIP
Nafeez Ahmed is a prolific keynote speaker who brings hope, optimism and empowerment to his audiences. He speaks and consults on major world trends, systemic risks, and adapting to uncertain futures. His talks - ranging from 15 minute bitesize interventions to 2 hour lectures - are described by his audiences as “mind-blowing”, “riveting” and “life-changing.”
In 2023, Nafeez Ahmed delivered a keynote speech at the 28th ‘Conference of the Parties’ United Nations Climate Summit in Dubai at a Heads of State plenary session hosted by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA).
In 2024, Nafeez delivered a keynote speech at the United Nations Summit of the Future, in the UN Headquarters in New York, at an event co-organised with the Governments of Panama and Antigua & Barbuda.
Other diverse venues where he has keynoted include Aviva Investors which manages assets valued just under $400 bn; the Biodiversity Funders Group representing the world’s largest philanthropic organisations (the top forum for environmental foundations whose members include the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation); Exponential Solutions Day of the Stockholm Climate Week (sponsored by We Don’t Have Time); the Secret Garden Party; the Elevate Festival; the Centre for Investigative Journalism’s Logan Symposium; the Global Investigative Journalism Conference; the AGM of the International Security Management Association (representing the chief security officers of the world’s top Fortune Global 500, Fortune 500 and Fortune 100 firms); Ubisoft’s New York launch of ‘The Division’; Barclays Wealth; the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst’s Muslim Engagement Academic Symposium; the All-Parliamentary Group on Third World Solidarity; the Green Party Conference; C-Span’s Book TV; the Perdana Global Peace Forum at the invitation of former Prime Minister of Malaysia, Dr Mohammed Mahathir; and the US Congressional briefing, ‘The 9/11 Commission Report One Year Later’.
Dr Nafeez Ahmed speaking to the Laszlo Institute about his theory of the global phase shift and its implications for a new era for human civilisation.
He has also delivered keynote academic lectures and seminars at institutions such as the University of Helsinki (on ‘How environmental crisis can trigger political conflicts’); the University of Tampere’s Faculty of Communication Sciences (on the ‘Future of climate journalism in an era of systemic change’); the Transnational Institute Fellows Meeting (on ‘Activism and repression in the age of transnational surveillance’); UCL’s Bartlett School of Architecture; the Crisis Forum (on ‘Avoiding climate change: what is to be done?’); the LGIR/CASEP Research Seminar Series at London Metropolitan University; the LSE Global Governance Research Seminar Series; the University of Cambridge’s Contextualising Islam in Britain II symposium; the IR Theory and Middle Eastern Geopolitics Panel at the British Middle East Studies Association (BRISMES) Annual Conference; the Joint Centre for Intelligence & Security Studies at Brunel University; the London in a Time of Terror conference of the British International Studies Association (BISA) Working Group CRIPT (Contemporary Research in International Relations Theory); Kingston University’s Visiting Speaker Programme for the MA in International Conflict and Human Rights; the Cambridge International Studies Association; Indiana University’s Making War, Making Peace Themester; among numerous others.
“Nafeez Ahmed’s understanding of the post 9/11 power game, its lies, illusions and dangers, is no less than brilliant.”