WTUN Annual Lecture
Tuesday 3 November 202609:30 – 10:00
University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria, Linz Campus
Professor Michael Shamiyeh
UNESCO Chairholder, Professor, and Advisor Board Member
Vice-President MOST IGC – UNESCO
Michael Shamiyeh works with organizations to create a new and meaningful future (rather than fix the problems of the past). He combines the client’s unique business experience, analytical rigor, and the output of creative collisions (the clash of multiple perspectives to reframe habitual thinking) to transform insight into impact. Michael holds a UNESCO Chair for Anticipatory Techniques and Future Design, is a Fellow of the International Center for Corporate Governance (ICCG), which was originally founded at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, and was a visiting professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering (CDR) at Stanford University in the USA from 2017 to 2020. Together with the latter two institutions, he founded the Center for Future Design (CFD) in Linz – an academic institution for research and teaching in the field of future competence. Since 2020, he has also been a member of the advisory board of Voestalpine AG and, since 2025, vice president of UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Council of the Management of the Social Transformations Programme.
www.michaelshamiyeh.com