BIO Aftab Omar

Aftab Omer, Ph.D. is the president of Meridian University, a graduate university with degree and professional programs emphasizing the power of transformative learning.

With students and alumni on six continents, Meridian University offers both an online format globally and a hybrid format in California.
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Aftab is a sociologist, psychologist, developmentalist, and futurist. Raised in Pakistan, India, Hawaii, and Turkey, he was educated at the universities of M.I.T, Harvard and Brandeis. His publications have addressed the topics of transformative learning, dialogic capability, developmental power, cultural leadership, civil society, generative entrepreneurship, and the power of imagination.

Aftab’s advising work focuses on team development and on leveraging the creative potentials of conflict, diversity, and complexity. Formerly the president of the Council for Humanistic and Transpersonal Psychologies, he is a Fellow of the International Futures Forum and the World Academy of Arts and Sciences.