Dr Maha Hosain Aziz specialises in political risk & prediction across varied industries and disciplines. She is a part-time professor teaching and researching this topic at New York University's Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, and advising students on their MA theses; she is also teaching her specialty at e-learning education startup Pioneer Academics. She writes on political risk & prediction for the Huffington Post and its political offshoot, The WorldPost. She is also a cartoonist who created The Global Kid, the world's first comic book on global political risk, prediction and strategy for young adult and adult readers; it won the 2016 Wonder Woman Award, 2017 WEF Excellence Award and 2017 INSPAD Peace Award (100% of sales from the Indiegogo-crowdfunded comic book were donated to two global education non-profits that help youth reach their potential – Developments In Literacy and Global Glimpse). On occasion, she still consults with governments and corporates via Wikistrat, the world's first geopolitical crowdsourced consultancy, Duco's intelligence network and a few others. She was recently appointed Senior Fellow at think tank World Policy Institute and to the Executive Committee of the Asia Society's Global Council. And she is currently working on her first non-comic book on the global legitimacy crisis in today's post-hegemonic world.
Previously, Dr. Aziz served as chairwoman of a small team that co-launched the New Silk Road Generation, the first e-mentoring program for university students in Afghanistan. She was a regular contributing columnist on global politics to both Businessweek and CNN. She was a Senior Teaching Fellow in the Politics and International Studies Department at the University of London's SOAS, co-convening an undergraduate course on democracy, development and militant groups in South Asia. She also taught an undergraduate course on British politics and democratic institutions at the London School of Economics (LSE), winning three teaching awards. At the LSE, she was the C&J Modi/Narayanan Fellow while pursuing her doctoral research on the moral economy. Before her PhD, she worked in investment banking and media; she also earned a Bachelor's at Brown University, a Master's at Columbia University, a Master's at the LSE and a research certification in Leveraging Crowds in the Public Sector at the NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering.