Amy Webb (born October 18, 1974) is a globally renowned American quantitative futurist, bestselling author, and academic who is widely credited with transforming strategic foresight into a rigorous, data-driven management discipline. She is the founder and CEO of the Future Today Strategy Group (formerly the Future Today Institute), a premier consulting firm that utilizes quantitative modeling to help Fortune 100 executives, intergovernmental organizations, and military leaders navigate disruptive technological shifts. Webb pioneered her career as an investigative tech journalist in Asia before entering academia; she serves as a professor of strategic foresight at New York University's Stern School of Business and a visiting fellow at Oxford University. A highly influential public intellectual, she has authored four acclaimed books: her viral online-dating data memoir, Data, a Love Story (the basis of a massive TED Talk); The Signals Are Talking, which outlines her forecasting framework; The Big Nine, a critical examination of geopolitical AI consolidation; and her 2022 masterpiece co-authored with Andrew Hessel, The Genesis Machine, which was named one of the year's best non-fiction books by The New Yorker for its brilliant analysis of synthetic biology and the future of genetic editing.
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