Amy Webb is widely recognized as the global authority who transformed the practice of strategic foresight into a rigorous, data-driven discipline. A pioneering quantitative futurist, she established the field’s foundational methodologies that today guide leaders, organizations, and governments in anticipating disruption, shaping the future, and securing long-term growth.
Amy and her team advise a large portion of the Fortune 100. New CEOs rely on her counsel to navigate leadership transitions and articulate a vision for the next decade. Seasoned executives turn to her to identify their organizations’ next growth curves, while boards of directors seek her guidance to understand disruption, systemic risk, and opportunity amid accelerating change.
Her influence extends far beyond the private sector. She has advised three White House administrations and counsels U.S. federal agencies, Congress, and heads of state across four continents on technology and long-term planning and policy.
A prolific author, Amy has written four seminal books, including the international bestseller The Big Nine, which reframed global debates about AI, and The Genesis Machine, named by The New Yorker as one of the year’s best nonfiction works. Her books—translated into 23 languages—are read in boardrooms, classrooms, and policy circles around the world; two have been optioned for film.
She also collaborates with the creative community to shape how millions of people imagine the future. Amy advises writers, directors, and producers on projects for Netflix, Hulu, and Marvel. She is a voting member of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.
Ranked the #3 Most Influential Management Thinker in the World by Thinkers50, Amy is regarded as one of the most important voices on the future of technology, business, and society. Forbes named her “one of the five women changing the world,” and the BBC recognized her among its 100 Women of the Year. She is an elected Life member of the Council on Foreign Relations and serves on several boards for the World Economic Forum.
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.
Her thinking appears regularly in The New York Times, Harvard Business Review, Wired, The Atlantic, Fortune, MIT Sloan Management Review, and Amy is a frequent guest on CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, NPR, Marketplace and many other television networks worldwide.
Outside of work, Amy is a competitive endurance cyclist (gravel and road), and an Assistant Scoutmaster to one of the country’s first all-girls Scout troops.
