Amy Webb a futurist, author and professor. She is a professor of strategic foresight at the NYU Stern School of Business and the Founder of the Future Today Institute, a leading future forecasting and strategy firm that researches technology and answers “What’s the future of X?” for a global client base. Now in its second decade, the Institute advises Fortune 500 and Global 1000 companies, government agencies, large nonprofits, universities and startups around the world. Amy Webb was named to the 2017 Thinkers50 Radar list of the 30 management thinkers most likely to shape the future of how organizations are managed and led and was shortlisted for the 2017 Thinkers50 RADAR Award.

Webb is teaches a popular MBA-level course on futures forecasting at the NYU Stern School of Business. She is the author of three books, including The Signals Are Talking: Why Today’s Fringe Is Tomorrow’s Mainstream (PublicAffairs/ Hachette, December 2016) which explains how to predict and manage technological change. It was selected as one of Fast Company’s Best Books of 2016, won a 2017 Gold Axiom Medal for the best book about business and technology, was a Washington Post bestseller, was an Amazon’s best book of December 2016 and was a #1 Bestseller. Signals has been released in multiple international editions and has been translated into a number of languages.

Webb's research focuses on how technology will transform the way we live, work and govern. Her future forecasting work has been featured in the New York Times, Harvard Business Review, Wall Street Journal, Fortune, Inc. Magazine, Fast Company, CNN, NPR, and more. Her research has also been cited in several academic papers.

Webb holds many professional affiliations and collaborates with a number of institutions. She was a 2014-15 Visiting Nieman Fellow at Harvard University and her research on the future of education reform received a national Sigma Delta Chi award. She is a 2017-18 Delegate in the United States-Japan Leadership Program, and was a Delegate on the former U.S.-Russia Bilateral Presidential Commission. 

For the past 15 years, Webb has been dedicated to helping inform and shape the future of journalism. She is a new member of the accreditation council of the ACEJMC, where she is helping to recalibrate accreditation standards for journalism and communication programs throughout the country. Her research while at Harvard centered on the future of journalism and journalism education, which resulted in the publication of her second book, How to Make J-School Matter (Again) (Harvard University,  2015). She was a David Letterman Distinguished Professional Lecturer at Ball State University in 2016. Every year, Webb lectures about the future of media and technology at a number of universities, which have included Harvard University, Institut d'études politiques de Paris, Temple University, Tokyo University and National University of Kyiv.

Webb is a member of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (Interactive Media Peer Group – Emmy award judge). She serves on the Board of Directors for the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and serves on several startup and advisory boards, including the SXSW Accelerator.

Writing about emerging technology, digital media and the impacts/ opportunities they present is a focus of Webb's work. She is the tech columnist and a contributing editor at Inc. Magazine, where she writes about the future of technology and business. She regularly contributes to a number of publications all over the world. In 2013, Amy published Data, A Love Story (Dutton/ Penguin), a bestselling memoir about finding love via algorithms. Data has since been translated for a worldwide market and is being adapted for film. Her TED talk about Data has been viewed more than 6 million times and has been translated into 32 languages.

Webb originally attended the Jacobs School of Music to study classical clarinet and has an M.S. from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. As an undergraduate, she studied game theory, economics and political science. She has continued to study classical piano. She also earned Nikyu Certification in the Japanese government-administered Language Proficiency Test and speaks fluently. In addition, she earned the rank of Shodan (first-degree black belt) in Aikido, but a serious accident during training a few years ago forced her to retire. She began her career as a writer with Newsweek (Tokyo) and the Wall Street Journal (Hong Kong) where she covered emerging technology, media and cultural trends.