Waqas Ahmed

About

Waqas Ahmed is known as an Author, Polymath and Multidisciplinary Thinking Expert, with experience spanning media, storytelling, current affairs and culture. Waq s is considered a world authority on multi-disciplinary thinking. His globally acclaimed book The Polymath (Wiley 2019) sets out how such thinking has always defined the highest performers in world history, and how it is now desperately needed to address the complexity of 21st century challenges. His ideas arise from over 10,000 hours of research as well as his own extraordinarily diverse career in art, science, education, health and international affairs. Waq s speaks about each of these domains with authority; but above all, he is passionate about how such seemingly unrelated fields can actually serve to inform one another, often providing unique creative insights that would be unimaginable through hyper-specialization.