Faculty Directory | Amy Webb

Amy Webb is an adjunct professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business, where she developed and teaches an MBA-level strategic foresight course with live case studies.

Recognized as the global leader in strategic foresight, Professor 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 (FTSG), Professor Webb 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, Professor Webb 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 Thinkers 50 list, was shortlisted for the 2021 Digital Thinking Award, and received the 2017 Thinkers50 Radar Award. Forbes called Professor Webb “one of the five women changing the world,” and she was honored as one of the BBC’s 100 Women of 2020.

Professor Webb is regularly asked to advise policymakers in the White House, Congress, US regulatory agencies, the European Union and United Nations. She is an inaugural member of the World Economic Forum’s Strategic Foresight Advisory Board, a member of the WEF’s Global Risks Board, and is an AI Governance Alliance partner. Professor Webb 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 U.S.-Russia Bilateral Presidential Commission, where she advised on the future of technology and international diplomacy.

Professor Webb is a Visiting Fellow at Oxford University’s Säid School of Business, a former Visiting Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, a Fellow in the United States-Japan Leadership Program and a Foresight Fellow in the U.S. Government Accountability Office Center for Strategic Foresight.

Regarded as one of the most important voices on the futures of technology (with specializations in both AI and biotechnology), Professor Webb 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, Professor Webb has appeared in publications and broadcasts including The New York Times, Fortune, Wired, The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review, the BBC, CNN, NBC and NPR, among others.

Professor Webb attended the Jacobs School of Music to study classical clarinet. She holds a B.A. in political science, game theory and economics from Indiana University and an M.S. from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. She is a competitive endurance cyclist.