Polycrisis Has Outpaced
Legacy Systems
The Challenge
Polycrisis Has Outpaced Governance
Prediction fails in non-linear systems, yet institutions are still optimized for short cycles and fragmented decision-making. Climate volatility, AI acceleration, and geopolitical fragmentation are colliding faster than reactive policy can adapt.
Reactive v. Anticipatory
Anticipatory Governance, Upstream of Policy
HSI prepares decision-makers for multiple plausible futures rather than a single predicted outcome. We operate before formal policy and regulation, where leverage is highest.
Process Architecture
The HSI Sense-Making Engine
Converting weak signals into institutional action pathways through a repeatable, high-trust cadence.
Four Pillars of Civilizational Resilience
We concentrate our sense-making on the four domains where human agency is most at risk and where leverage is highest.
Why Now
2025–2030:
The Determinate Window.
Decisions made in this 60-month window lock in trajectories for the rest of the century. This is not just a period of change; it is the global forcing function.
Institutional Imperative
Breakthroughs in AI and planetary science are rendering legacy governance assumptions obsolete.
Fragmented decision-making under stress leads to catastrophic cascading failure.
HSI bridges the gap between emerging risk and institutional capacity.
Programs
Global Fellows
Our Global Fellows are not armchair theorists—they're builders working at the frontier. Selected for their on-the-ground expertise and implementation experience, Fellows surface emerging risks and weak signals that traditional institutions miss.
Featured Global Fellow
Our Global Fellows are practitioners shaping policy on the ground, bringing frontline experience from the Global South and proven government implementation to build real solutions, not just commentary.
Abdullah Ishak Khan
Global Fellow, Horizon Search Institute
Deputy Director, Bangladesh Economic Zones Authority (BEZA), Prime Minister’s Office; PhD Student, Public Affairs, Florida International University (FIU)
Bio
Abdullah Ishak Khan is a policy practitioner and investment‑promotion strategist focused on translating national development priorities into tangible economic outcomes. As Deputy Director at the Bangladesh Economic Zones Authority (Prime Minister’s Office), he has led major public‑private initiatives, including the $300M infrastructure development for the Japan Economic Zone. A PhD student in Public Affairs at Florida International University, Ishak combines practitioner depth with academic rigor. His training spans Hitotsubashi University (MEXT YLP, International Business Strategy), IBA–University of Dhaka (MBA), and coursework across UNSW, Peking University, and Seoul National University. At HSI, he contributes to the Bangladesh Development Series and related convenings on investment readiness, logistics, and resilient growth.
Partner in Building the Future of Governance
HSI works with institutions, sponsors, and patrons shaping long‑horizon decision capacity.