Ismail Khudr Al-Shatti
Ismail Khudr Al-Shatti is among the prominent personalities in Kuwaiti and Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) politics. He currently serves as the head of advisory committee for the Kuwaiti prime minister. He is a former Kuwaiti Ministry of Communications and a former Kuwaiti deputy prime minister Earlier Al-Shatti held several key positions in the Kuwaiti administrative bodies and is a well-known think tank advisor in futuristic and scientific decision making process at national and international levels. Though a proven multifaceted personality, he is generally regarded as one of the pioneers of futures studies in  the region. Al-Shatti earned a Chemical Engineering bachelor's degree, continuing with a masters in Industrial Engineering and a PhD in Civil Engineering (from University of Southampton, UK). He worked as Dean of Faculty of Technological Studies and published many scientific papers in Chemical Engineering and Future Researche. Al-Shatti has also been a noted journalist and a columnist in local and Arabic newspapers and magazines such as "Al-Watan", "Al-Qabas", "Asharq Al-Awsat", "Al-Hayat", and "Al Kuwait" magazine". He was editor in chief of the magazine "Al Mujtama’a" for 12 years. Al-Shatti was the CEO  of Dar Al Mashora for Consulting Services and Gulf Institute for Futures and Strategic Studies. He has a lifetime membership of the World Futures Society, has been the Arab Regional Coordinator of World Futures Society since 1989, is member of Millennium Project of the American Council for the United Nations University and was a Planning Committee Member and Chairman of Gulf Node. , Al-Shatti holds membership of International Religious Advisory Council of the Tony Blair Faith Foundation. In April 2014, he was an adviser to the Kuwaiti government and a member of Blair’s advisory council. According to "The Daily  Telegraph", the Global Muslim Brotherhood Daily Watch revealed that Al-Shatti was a leading member of the Islamic Constitutional Movement (ICM), considered the Kuwaiti branch of the Muslim Brotherhood.