Professor Nayef Al-Rodhan FRSA is a transdisciplinary philosopher, neuroscientist, geostrategist and futurologist.
He is an Honorary Fellow of St. Antony's College, Oxford University; Head of the Geopolitics and Global Futures Department at the Geneva Center for Security Policy in Switzerland; Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Philosophy, School of Advanced Study, University of London; Member of the Global Future Councils at the World Economic Forum; and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA).He is also the intellectual founder of the Transdisciplinary Philosophy movement, which bridges and transcends traditional academic boundaries while addressing fundamental questions across the breadth of philosophy as it interacts with other disciplines and 21st Century concerns.
Prof. Al-Rodhan is a prize-winning scholar who has written more than 350 articles and 25 books, including most recently 21st-Century Statecraft: Reconciling Power, Justice And Meta-Geopolitical Interests, Sustainable History And Human Dignity, Emotional Amoral Egoism: A Neurophilosophy Of Human Nature And Motivations, and On Power: Neurophilosophical Foundations And Policy Implications. His research focuses on transdisciplinarity, neuro-techno-philosophy, and the future of philosophy, with a particular emphasis on the interplay between philosophy, neuroscience, strategic culture, applied history, and geopolitics, on Earth and in Outer Space. His current projects are also focused around Geopolitical Realities, Geostrategic Imperatives, Collective Civilisational Frontier Risks, Outer Space Security, Safety and Sustainability, Disruptive Technologies (Generative AI, Synthetic Biology, SuperIntelligence), National and Global Security, Political Theory and International Relations, with his transdisciplinary 'Symbiotic Realism' framework describing the seven new forces transforming the international system.