Amy Webb

Founder and CEO • Future Today Institute • Washington, D.C.
Last edited October 18, 2019

Amy Webb is a quantitative futurist, a professor of strategic foresight at the NYU Stern School of Business and Founder of the Future Today Institute, a leading foresight and strategy consultancy. Webb is a recipient of the Thinkers50 RADAR Award for her groundbreaking work in strategic foresight. She is a Foresight Fellow in the U.S. Government Accountability Office Center for Strategic Foresight, a Fellow in the United States-Japan Leadership Program, a 2014-15 Visiting Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, and was a Delegate on the former U.S.-Russia Bilateral Presidential Commission. She is the bestselling author of The Signals Are Talking: Why Today's Fringe Is Tomorrow's Mainstream, which explains how to forecast emerging technology. Webb's latest book The Big Nine: How The Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity is about the nine companies in control of AI's destiny-and as a result, our markets, governing structures and futures.



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