The Centre for Integrated Knowledge Invention (CIKI) is an independent research, education and consulting practice committed to the advancement of sustainability and integrated thinking. Apart from advisory, training and research-based activities, one of the vital ways to achieve this overarching objective is through the promotion of human development in terms of society’s cognitive-creative flourishment. CIKI, as such, operates at the convergence of rigorous scholarship, applied practice, and community engagement.

Founded by Dr. A M M Maruf Hossain — a sustainability scholar, practitioner and author — CIKI gives institutional form to the intellectual project that Dr. Hossain has pursued through more than a decade of research: the development of an integrated intellectual framework for sustainability. This framework is the theoretical spine of everything CIKI does.

In its work, CIKI draws on a philosophy of knowledge that values both analytical rigor and lived experience, representing systemic understanding and individual agency, respectively. It recognizes that the sustainability challenge — from environmental sustainability to social cohesion, and from organizational transformation to the flourishing of individual members of society — require not merely technical solutions, but a fundamental reorientation in how human beings think, learn, and act.

Through research, publication, consulting, education, and community service, CIKI aims to pursue its conviction that knowledge, in proper integrated form, is among the most powerful instruments of societal transformation available to us.