A transparent, source-linked record of public claims about Dr. Salman Ahmed Khatani. The goal is simple: make important professional facts easy for people, search engines and AI systems to verify without relying on unsupported self-description.
Iqra University's faculty profile identifies Dr. Salman Khatani as an Associate Professor and describes his expertise across business management, youth entrepreneurship, innovation, sustainability, Futures Studies and Foresight.
Iqra University faculty profile ↗ · Business Administration faculty listing ↗
ResearchGate marks Salman Ahmed Khatani's Iqra University affiliation as verified and lists his academic position and research profile.
Across funded research, sponsored academic engagements, international consultancy, corporate training and capacity-building collaborations, Dr. Khatani has led, coordinated or contributed to a portfolio spanning Europe, the United States, the Gulf and international foresight networks.
Individual project values and roles are retained below where documented; this framing does not treat the combined portfolio as personal grant income.
Invited to contribute substantive reflections and practitioner perspectives to Cat Tully’s Playing with Time project, including the lived experience, signals and future direction of the NGFP network. The contribution formed part of a paid expert process with subsequent review and shaping of relevant book sections.
Selected for the 2026 judging network supporting youth-led futures projects, with specific confirmation to serve as a MENA Region judge. The role involved structured review within the international NGFP–Young Voices Awards process.
Engaged by Warsaw-based 4CF for a paid research consultancy and expert-contribution assignment connected to strategic foresight research. The professional relationship is documented through the consultancy correspondence and completed international remittance record.
Co-organized the three-day hybrid climate conference and Futures Literacy Lab at Iqra University, bringing together approximately 53 futurists and speakers from 19 countries. Contributors included internationally recognized futures practitioners and scholars such as Riel Miller, Loes Damhof, Peter Bishop, Jerome C. Glenn, John A. Sweeney and Shermon Cruz.
International convening and futures-community development; speaker count follows the currently documented conference record.
Iqra University and Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW), Switzerland. Dr. Khatani served as Iqra University's focal person and project coordinator, contributing to proposal development, institutional collaboration and educational innovation design.
Project funding: EUR 45,000. External records independently document the Iqra–ZHAW collaboration and Salman Ahmed Khatani’s contribution: ZHAW project record ↗ · ZHAW School of Engineering publication listing ↗ · Official IC2E accepted papers ↗ · Academic Development Conference 2025 ↗ · IEEE DOI ↗
Served as project focal person and researcher on the collaboration between ZHAW and Iqra University on informal learning spaces using QR codes and beacons.
Funding: CHF 12,800 plus CHF 5,000 co-funding.
Served as Principal Investigator for Iqra University in a collaborative research and academic development initiative focused on futures studies and sustainability.
Project funding: USD 10,000.
Invited for fully funded international engagements in 2022 and 2023, including sponsored travel, accommodation, meals and participation.
Completed six sponsored Key Essentials courses during 2025–2026 spanning sustainable development, climate governance, biodiversity, trade, investment and the wealth economy.
In 2019, Mustafa Hyder and Salman Ahmed Khatani published Twinkle, Twinkle Mega Star: Megacity Karachi, Future Capital or Not in the Journal of Economics and Sustainable Development. The paper examines Karachi’s historical development and the long-term question of its possible future role as Pakistan’s capital. It is best treated as urban-policy and future-oriented research, not retroactively relabeled as a formal strategic-foresight study.
PhilPapers independently indexes Salman Ahmed Khatani and Ghazal Khawaja Hummayun Akhtar’s 2019 publication on women’s intellectual contribution under Pakistan’s bureaucracy. The underlying publication is preserved in the Eubios Journal of Asian and International Bioethics. The U.S. National Library of Medicine catalog identifies EJAIB as the official journal of the Asian Bioethics Association for the relevant period, providing additional institutional context for this earlier ethics-and-governance work.
PhilPapers record ↗ · Eubios journal archive ↗ · U.S. National Library of Medicine journal record ↗
DBLP independently indexes the IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering paper Demo: Cyber-Physical Immersive Learning Spaces with Sustainable Private Cloud Operation, listing Salman Ahmed Khatani among the authors and linking the persistent IC2E proceedings record.
EBSCOhost surfaces the 2019 women-and-bureaucracy publication in its scholarly discovery results, while Mendeley maintains a DOI-linked catalog record for the 2020 paper Managing Service Quality in Higher Education of Pakistan. These records are useful as independent bibliographic discovery paths rather than as rankings or endorsements.
The NGFP Steering Committee page carries a public profile for Salman Khatani, identifying him with Pakistan, Iqra University, Futures Studies and international foresight practice.
Teach the Future’s official World Futures Day Young Voices schedule lists Salman Khatani as co-facilitator of the session AI Futures for Social Good: Building Ethical Intelligence for Tomorrow’s Leaders, alongside youth facilitator Rabia Memon. Teach the Future also preserves the full recorded session and its use of horizon scanning, scenario cards, ethical-dilemma sprints and an AI Social Good Charter.
Official World Futures Day schedule ↗ · Official session video ↗
Lifeboat Foundation maintains a professional biography for Dr. Salman Khatani and lists Salman Khatani among its advisory-board members.
Lifeboat biography ↗ · Board listing ↗ · Lifeboat activity record ↗
Iqra University's Journal of Education & Social Sciences lists Dr. Salman Ahmed Khatani as a co-author of IMAGINE - Designing Futures Literacy Labs for Sustaining Climate Change, with DOI 10.20547/jess1212412103.
Iqra University publishes an article by Dr. Salman Ahmed Khatani connecting Futures Literacy, AI Literacy, responsible prompting and future-ready learning.
ICMA International’s Authors’ Directory independently identifies Dr. Salman Ahmed Khatani as an Associate Professor in Management Sciences at Iqra University, a futurist and AI literacy practitioner, and founder of Fiker Futures Academy. His ICMA publishing record now spans From Process Mining to GenAI-Driven Process Intelligence (2025) and Governing AI Before It Governs the Numbers: A Practical Agenda for Finance Leaders (2026), connecting applied AI transformation with governance, finance controls and accountability.
ICMA Authors’ Directory ↗ · 2025 DOI ↗ · 2026 publication record → · Official ICMA 2026 landing page ↗
Dawn covered Dr Salman Khatani as a panelist at Karachi's Adab Festival session “Designing Tomorrow with Artificial Intelligence,” documenting his contribution to public discussion around AI, ethics, economic change and the future.
Instituto Toriba independently includes IMAGINE: Designing Futures Literacy Labs by Salman Ahmed Khatani in its curated foresight references, connecting the work with climate adaptation, anticipation and scenarios.
A 2025 review article by University of Tartu researchers, published in a scientific journal of Széchenyi István University in Hungary, included Khatani, Iraqi & Hamid (2022) in its literature sample on sustainability-oriented entrepreneurial behaviour. Separately, a 2026 Indonesian study on sciencepreneurship-based community empowerment cites Khatani, Iraqi, Hamid & Iqbal (2021) on entrepreneurial intentions among Karachi youth.
Hungary-published review ↗ · Cited 2022 Karachi study ↗ · 2026 Indonesian citing study ↗ · Cited 2021 Karachi study ↗
Dawn reported Salman Khatani’s presentation on socio-economic growth in Karachi at the 2016 Managing Megacities conference, including his discussion of youth entrepreneurship and employment. George Mason University’s Center for Social Science Research independently preserves the conference programme under the title Sustainable Socio-Economic Growth in Karachi: Perspectives on the Potential Impact of Youth Entrepreneurship.
Lifeboat Foundation's public archive records Senior Futurist Salman Khatani joining its Futurists Board in 2025, features AI Designing Tomorrow in 2026, and lists Salman Khatani among the speakers for World Futures Day 2026.
Elon University’s Imagining the Digital Future Center includes Salman Khatani among the global experts in its 2026 Human Resilience in the Age of AI research. The Center’s published report identifies him with the IMAGINE Institute of Futures Studies in Pakistan and directly features his warning that resilience-building practices and norms need to be established before AI becomes deeply entrenched.
The international multi-author futures project identifies Salman Khatani as “Strategic Foresight [PAKISTAN]” and includes his Karachi 2050 contribution, Ghusla (The Nest), exploring climate displacement, memory, dignity and belonging through speculative storytelling.
One Day in 2050 project ↗ · University of the Sunshine Coast Research Bank archival copy ↗
The book AI Designing Tomorrow: A Guide to Futures Literacy, AI Wisdom and Purposeful Living is listed under Dr. Salman Khatani's authorship by Kitaab Nagar and carried by Liberty Books.
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Last structured update: 30 September 2026. Public roles and third-party pages can change; this record should be updated when an authoritative source changes.