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Jason Schenker Featured Leading Futurist, Top-Ranked Economist, Bestselling Author with Expertise in Financial Markets, Geopolitics, and AI

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  • The Economic, Financial, and Technology Outlook: Seizing Opportunity in a Time of Uncertainty
  • AI Opportunities and Risks: The Future of Work, Business, and Global Competition
  • Headlines and Trendlines for the Economy, Markets, and Technology Shaping the Decade Ahead
  • Outlook for the Global Economy Amidst Bending and Breaking Supply Chains
  • The Future of Business: Key Economic, Geopolitical, and Technological Risks for Corporate Boards
  • The Future of Oil, Gas, and Power: Economic Necessities Facing Policy Threats Against a Backdrop of Cold War Two®
  • The Future of Finance is Now: Navigating Innovation, Risk, and Opportunity
  • The Future of Manufacturing, Autos, and Transportation: Economic Trends, Policy Risks, and Global Disruptions
  • The Future of Healthcare: Economic, Technological, and Policy Disruptions Ahead
  • The Future of Real Estate, Housing, and Construction: Economic Trends, Labor Shortages, and Policy Risks

Select Book Titles

  • 2025 Cold War Two: Navigating a New Era of Uncertainty for the Economy, Finance, Energy, Technology, Trade, and Supply Chain
  • 2021 The Robot and Automation Almanac - 2022: The Futurist Institute
  • 2021 The Future of Travel: Trends and Technologies Shaping the Decade Ahead: The Futurist Institute
  • 2020 Strategic Cost-Cutting: How to Improve Profitability in a Downturn
  • 2020 Jobs for Robots: Between Robocalype and Robotopia - COVID Edition
  • 2020 The Future After COVID: Futurist Expectations for Changes, Challenges, and Opportunities After the COVID-19 Pandemic
  • 2020 After the COVID Vaccine: Futurist Scenarios of Risk and Opportunity After COVID-19 Vaccines are Widely Available
  • 2020 Write the Future: How to Share Your Vision and Build Your Brand by Writing a Book in Under 30 Days
  • 2020 The Future of Finance After COVID: Technology and Trends Disrupting the Post-Pandemic Financial World
  • 2020 Recession-Proof Career Strategies After COVID
  • 2020 The Robot and Automation Almanac - 2021: The Futurist Institute
  • 2020 The Future of Food and Agriculture After COVID: Disruptive Trends and Technology That Will Shape the Post-Pandemic World
  • 2020 Strategic Cost Cutting After COVID: How to Improve Profitability in a Post-Pandemic World
  • 2020 The Economics of Revolt and Revolution: Crises of the Past and Implications for the Future After COVID
  • 2019 The Robot and Automation Almanac - 2020: The Futurist Institute
  • 2019 Reading the Economic Tea Leaves: Secrets to Unlocking the Value of Economic Indicators
  • 2019 Spikes: Growth Hacking Leadership
  • 2019 The Fog of Data: Navigating Data to Derive Implications, Unlock Value, Get Buy-In, and Increase Transparency
  • 2019 Financial Risk Management Fundamentals
  • 2019 The Future of Energy: Technologies and Trends Driving Disruption
  • 2019 The Dumpster Fire Election : Realistic Dystopian Expectations for the 2020 Presidential Election
  • 2019 The Future of Finance is Now
  • 2019 The Future of Agriculture
  • 2019 Futureproof Supply Chain: Planning for Disruption Risks and Opportunities in the Lifeline of the Global Economy
  • 2018 Midterm Economics: The Impact of Midterm Elections of Financial Markets and the Economy
  • 2018 The Promise of Blockchain: Hope and Hype for an Emerging Disruptive Technology
  • 2018 Quantum: Computing Nouveau - The Technological Step Change That Could Foster Scientific Discovery, Break Blockchains, and Trigger a Global Cybersecurity Arms Race
  • 2018 The Robot and Automation Almanac - 2019: The Futurist Institute
  • 2018 A Gentle Introduction to Audit and Due Diligence
  • 2017 Jobs for Robots: Between Robocalypse and Robotopia
  • 2017 Robot-Proof Yourself: How to Survive the Robocalypse and Benefit from Robots and Automation
  • 2017 The Robot and Automation Almanac - 2018: The Futurist Institute
  • 2016 Recession-Proof
  • 2016 Electing Recession: The Impact of Presidential Elections on Financial Markets and the Economy
  • 2012 Commodity Prices 101
  • 2012 Be The Shredder, Not The Shred

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 presentations on economic trends, financial markets, geopolitical risks, AI, technology trends, and the future of work. Through his talks and research, 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 hosted by the Singapore Exchange, the London Metal Exchange, the AFP, AICPA, SXSW, the CIA, NATO, and the U.S. Federal Reserve.

Schenker's speeches focus on the economy, financial markets, commodities, supply chain, futurist innovation and technology, artificial intelligence, blockchain, quantum computing, energy and sustainability, 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 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 Promise of Blockchain, The Robot and Automation Almanac, The Future of Energy, Recession-Proof, The Future of Food and Agriculture After COVID, and The Future After COVID. His next book, Cold War Two, will be released in March 2025.

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 (copper, aluminum, nickel, tin, zinc), the euro, the British pound, the Australian dollar, agricultural commodity prices (coffee, cotton, sugar, soybeans), new home sales, U.S. payrolls, and the U.S. unemployment rate. He is a Forbes contributor, LinkedIn Top Voice, former Bloomberg Opinion columnist, and media commentator on CNBC, CNN, the BBC, and Bloomberg, including as a guest host on Bloomberg Television.

Schenker created a rigorous program for The Futurist Institute that includes courses on The Future of Work, The Future of Transportation, The Future of Data, The Future of Finance, Futurist Fundamentals, The Future of Energy, The Future of Leadership, The Future of Healthcare, and The Future of Quantum Computing.

Schenker is one of the 100 CEOs on the non-partisan Texas Business Leadership Council, the Texas affiliate of the Business Roundtable that advises elected officials of both parties at the state and federal levels. He is a Board Leadership Fellow of the National Association of Corporate Directors and a Fellow of the Energy Institute.

Before founding Prestige Economics in 2009, Schenker was a Risk Specialist at McKinsey and Chief Energy and Commodity Economist at Wachovia (Wells Fargo). He holds master’s degrees in economics, negotiation, and German, and a bachelor’s in history and German. He has been a Certified Financial Planner (CFP®) since 2010.

Schenker is currently Adjunct Faculty for the Joint Special Operations University at U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM). 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.


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