Alfonso Montuori

Alfonso Montuori, Ph.D., is a Professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies in the School of Consciousness and Transformation, where he teaches courses on Transdisciplinarity, Creativity and Personal Transformation, Transformative Leadership, and Planetary Consciousness. A polymath with a transnational background—he was born in the Netherlands to an Italian father and Dutch mother and raised in Lebanon, Greece, and England—Montuori combines academic rigor with artistic practice as an active musician (saxophone, flute, electronic wind instrument) and founder of Banana Records.

• Education: Ph.D. from Saybrook Institute, MIPS from Monterey Institute of International Studies, and B.A. from University of London
• Research: His work spans Complexity, Creativity, Epistemology, Future Studies, Leadership, and Human Possibilities, emphasizing transdisciplinary approaches and postnormal times
• Publications: Author of Integrative Transdisciplinarity (in press) and co-editor of Routledge Handbook for Creative Futures, with over 20 recent publications
• Global Engagement: Has lectured at Central South University (China), Miami University (USA), and Sapienza University of Rome (Italy)
• Artistic Career: Active musician since the 1970s, collaborating with artists like Roy Hargrove and his wife Kitty Margolis