Recognized as the global leader in strategic foresight, Amy Webb advises leaders through disruptive change, enabling them to navigate an unpredictable future with confidence and take actions that address global challenges, create sustainable value, and ensure a company’s long term growth.
As Founder and CEO of the Future Today Strategy Group, Amy pioneered a unique quantitative modeling approach and data-driven foresight methodology that identifies signals of change and emerging patterns very early. Using that information, Amy and her colleagues identify white spaces, opportunities and threats early enough for action. They develop predictive scenarios, along with executable strategy, for their global client base.
In 2023, Amy was recognized as the #4 most influential management thinker in the world by Thinkers50, a biannual ranking of global business thinkers. She was also featured on the 2021 Thinkers50 list and received the 2017 Thinkers50 Radar Award. Forbes called Amy “one of the five women changing the world” and she was honored as one of the BBC’s 100 Women of 2020.
Amy is regularly asked to advise policymakers in the White House, Congress, US regulatory agencies, the European Union, and United Nations. She is a founding member of the World Economic Forum’s Strategic Foresight Advisory Board, a member of the WEF’s Global Risks Board, the WEF’s Business and Economic Growth Board, and is an AI Governance Alliance partner. Amy was elected a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations and is a member of the Bretton Woods Committee. She served as a Delegate in the former US-Russia Bilateral Presidential Commission, where she advised on the future of technology and international diplomacy.
Outside of business and policy, Amy serves as a futurist consultant on a wide range of creative projects. She collaborates with writers, producers and directors creating movies and shows set in the future. She has worked on projects for Netflix, Hulu and Marvel. Two of her books have been optioned for film productions. Amy is a voting member of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.
For the past decade, Amy has served as a professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business, where she developed and teaches the MBA-level strategic foresight course with live case studies. She is a Visiting Fellow at Oxford University’s Säid School of Business, a former Nieman Fellow at Harvard University (research included AI, information systems, human decisions and behavior), a Fellow in the United States-Japan Leadership Program and a Foresight Fellow in the US Government Accountability Office Center for Strategic Foresight.
Regarded as one of the most important voices on the futures of technology (with research specializations in both AI and biotechnology), Amy is the author of four award-winning books, including international bestseller The Big Nine, a sobering analysis of the future of AI, and The Genesis Machine, a detailed look at the future of bioengineering. To date, her books have been translated into 23 languages.
A widely published and quoted thought leader, Amy has appeared in publications and broadcasts including The New York Times, Fortune, The Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, the Financial Times, Wired, The Atlantic, MIT Sloan Management Review, the BBC, CNN, NBC and NPR, among others.
Amy has spent extensive time in Japan and Hong Kong, where she formerly lived and worked. She attended the Jacobs School of Music to study classical clarinet. She holds a masters degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and an undergraduate degree in political science, game theory and economics from Indiana University. Outside of FTSG, Amy is a competitive endurance cyclist.
