Amy Webb is one the world’s most sought-after female futurists.. Amy Webb advises CEOs of the world’s most-admired companies, three-star admirals and generals, and the senior leadership of central banks and intergovernmental organizations. Founder of the Future Today Institute, a leading foresight and strategy firm that helps leaders and their organizations prepare for complex futures, Amy pioneered a data-driven, technology-led foresight methodology that is now used within hundreds of organizations.

Forbes called Amy “One of the five women changing the world” and one of “50 leading female futurists.” She was honored as one of the BBC’s 100 Women of 2020 and was named to the prestigious Thinkers50 Radar list of the 30 management thinkers most likely to shape the future of how organizations are managed and led. In 2021, she was shortlisted for the Thinkers50 Digital Thinking Award, which celebrates the thinker who has done the most to transform the digital revolution into useful management insights, and was ranked among the top 50 management thinkers in the world.

Amy is a professor of strategic foresight 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 Nonresident Senior Fellow in the Atlantic Council’s GeoTech Center, a Fellow in the United States-Japan Leadership Program and a Foresight Fellow in the U.S. Government Accountability Office Center for Strategic Foresight. Amy was a Visiting Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, where her research received a national Sigma Delta Chi award. She was also a Delegate on the former U.S.-Russia Bilateral Presidential Commission, where she worked on the future of technology, media and international diplomacy. Recently, she was named a lifetime member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

A lifelong science fiction fan, Amy collaborates closely with Hollywood writers and producers on films, TV shows and commercials about science, technology and the future. Recent projects include The First, a sci-fi drama about the first humans to travel to Mars, an AT&T commercial featuring a fully-autonomous car directed by Oscar-winner Kathryn Bigelow, and an upcoming film based on Amy’s hilarious and heart-wrenching memoir about data, algorithms and online dating (“Data, A Love Story”). Her highly-anticipated upcoming book, “Genesis Machine: Our Quest to Rewrite Life in the Age of Synthetic Biology” (Public Affairs, February 2022) – co-authored with Humane Genomics founder and biotech futurist Andrew Hessel –  looks at the promises and perils of synthetic biology including related ethical, political, religious and social issues.

Amy is a member of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences and has served as a Blue Ribbon Emmy award judge. Amy Webb “showed Comic-Con how it’s done” declared the Los Angeles Times, describing the 2019 main stage Westworld session she moderated with the show’s actors and showrunners.

Amy is the best-selling author of three books, including “The Big Nine: How The Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity“ (PublicAffairs/ Hachette 2019), which was longlisted for the Financial Times & McKinsey Business Book of the Year award, shortlisted for the Thinkers50 Digital Thinking Award, won the 2020 Gold Axiom Medal and was named Amazon’s best book about technology for 2019. “The Big Nine” is a sobering analysis of the present state of artificial intelligence, the conflict between the US and China, and what will happen to business and society during the next 50 years as AI evolves. A Washington Post bestseller, “The Signals Are Talking: Why Today’s Fringe Is Tomorrow’s Mainstream“ (PublicAffairs/Hachette 2016) explains Amy’s strategic forecasting methodology and how any organization can identify risk and opportunity before disruption hits. “Signals” won the 2017 Thinkers50 RADAR Award, the 2017 Gold Axiom Medal, and was selected as one of Fast Company’s Best Books of 2016. Her bestselling memoir “Data, A Love Story” (Penguin 2013) is about finding love via algorithms. Her TED talk about “Data” has been viewed more than 8 million times and translated into 32 languages. “Data” is being adapted as a feature film, which is currently in production. To date, her books have been translated into 19 different languages. Currently, Amy is working on a new book about genomes and the next wave of disruptive innovation with leading biotech visionary Andrew Hessel.

Amy writes extensively about corporate foresight strategy, uncertainty and emerging technologies. She regularly contributes to a number of publications, which include the Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review, New York Times, Wired, Fortune, Nikkei (Japan), Mother Jones and others.