Nafeez Ahmed is a globally-renowned systems theorist, change strategist and investigative journalist. He is the founder of the Age of Transformation, the world’s only newsletter exploring ‘the planetary phase-shift’, and Director of the System Shift Lab, a systems transformation consultancy based in London.
Nafeez has collaborated with some of the world’s largest organisations, including United Nations agencies, national governments, Fortune 500 companies and major philanthropic foundations. He has provided advisory services to numerous governments on global systemic risks and opportunities.
He is the author of several influential works, including Failing States, Collapsing Systems: BioPhysical Triggers of Political Violence (Springer Nature); A User’s Guide to the Crisis of Civilization: And How to Save it (Pluto); The Clean Energy Transformation: A New Paradigm for Social Progress Within Planetary Boundaries (Club of Rome); and co-author of Germany’s Path to Energy Freedom (RethinkX). He also served as the lead contributing research editor for Rethinking Climate Change (RethinkX).
Nafeez uses transdisciplinary scientific research, strategic communications, and storytelling to lead teams and advise leaders, companies, and non-profits on how to transform systems for the rapidly emerging post-carbon era.