Jason Schenker is the President of Prestige Economics and Chairman of The Futurist Institute. He is a top-ranked economist, leading futurist, bestselling author, and in-demand keynote speaker who delivers high-impact, data-driven presentations on economic trends, financial markets, AI, geopolitical risks, and the future of work and technology. Schenker helps clients anticipate risks and seize opportunities. A trusted voice on the economy, financial markets, geopolitics, and technology trends like AI and quantum, Schenker has delivered over 1,200 keynotes for public and private companies, corporate boards, industry groups, institutional investors, and government entities. He has spoken at events for the Singapore Exchange, the London Metal Exchange, the AFP, AICPA, SXSW, the CIA, NATO, and the Federal Reserve. Schenker's speeches focus on the economy, financial markets, commodities, supply chains, futurist innovation and technology, artificial intelligence, blockchain, quantum computing, energy, geopolitics, demographics, and other trends. He has been speaking and writing on AI, automation, and robots since 2016. As a prolific thought leader, Schenker has created over 40 LinkedIn Learning courses on AI, economics, finance, and technology that have been taken by 1.
3 million students. He is the author of 36 books and 15 #1 bestsellers, including Jobs for Robots, Futureproof Supply Chain, The Future of Finance is Now, Quantum: Computing Nouveau, The Future of Energy, Recession-Proof, and The Future After COVID. He is a Leadership Fellow of the National Association of Corporate Directors. Bloomberg News has ranked Schenker the #1 forecaster in the world in 27 categories since 2011, including for his forecasts of crude oil prices, natural gas prices, gold prices, industrial metals prices, the euro, the British pound, agricultural commodity prices, new home sales, U.S. payrolls, and the U.S. unemployment rate.
He is a Forbes contributor, LinkedIn Top Voice, and frequent media commentator, including as a guest host for Bloomberg Television. Schenker is also currently Adjunct Faculty for the Joint Special Operations University at U.S. Special Operations Command. He is also an Adjunct Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and an advisor to the U.S. State Department and the Foreign Service Institute.