Born and raised in the Middle East and based in Washington, D.C., Victor Vahidi Motti is a distinguished self-taught foresight scholar and author of the 2025 book Planetary Foresight and Ethics.

He is the co-founder and CEO/President of the Alternative Planetary Futures Institute and currently serves as the Executive Director of the World Futures Studies Federation (WFSF) founded in 1973 with 300+ institutional and individual members from 60+ countries and is the Managing Editor of the European Journal of Futures Research (EJFR) published by Springer Nature.

He is holder of USA National Interest Waiver (NIW) in Strategic Foresight and an invited speaker at business events and academic conferences. He has been a guest speaker at international conferences in the Americas, Europe, Africa, and Asia, speaking on key driving forces of change and major transformations at planetary and regional levels for the horizons of 2030, 2050, 2060, 2100, and 3000.