Jason Schenker

Chairman of The Futurist Institue
President of Prestige Economics

Jason Schenker is a futurist, economist, and author who prepares leaders for the future.

Jason has given talks to public and private companies, industry groups, institutional investors, central banks, the U.S. state department, CIA, NATO, and global financial exchanges. His speeches focus on the economy, financial markets, commodities, supply chain, futurist innovation and technology, artificial intelligence (AI), the metaverse, quantum computing, energy and sustainability, geopolitics, demographics, and other trends.

Jason has given over 1,000 keynote speeches and over 1,000 television interviews. He has been a Guest Host on Bloomberg Television and an occasional columnist for Bloomberg Opinion. Over 1 million students have taken Jason’s 20 LinkedIn Learning courses on business, leadership, economics, risk management, and finance. He is the author of 36 books on emerging technologies, finance, energy, leadership, economics, and supply chain.

As President of Prestige Economics, Bloomberg News has ranked Jason #1 forecaster in the world in 26 different categories since 2011, including for oil prices, industrial metals prices, the euro, the British pound, agricultural commodity prices, gold prices, and U.S. jobs.

As Chairman of The Futurist Institute, Jason trains people to Become a Futurist®, including consulting, accounting, finance, and national security leaders.

Jason is Chairman of the Climate Change Advisory Panel at Sasol (NYSE: SSL), the large public fuels and chemicals company headquartered in South Africa. This is an independent advisory board focused on supporting Sasol sustainability and emissions reduction commitments.

Jason is one of the 100 CEOs on the non-partisan Texas Business Leadership Council (TBLC), the Texas affiliate of the Business Roundtable that advises elected officials at the state and federal levels. He is on the TBLC Executive Committee, Economic Development Task Force, and Federal Issues Task Force. Jason is a member of the Bretton Woods Committee (BWC), on the BWC Digital Finance Project Team, and on the BWC Climate Finance Project Team. He is also a Board Leadership Fellow of the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD).

Jason is the author of fifteen #1` bestsellers on Amazon, including Jobs for Robots, Futureproof Supply Chain, The Future of Finance is Now, The Future of Energy, and The Robot and Automation Almanac. Nation Intelligence University Press published Jason’s peer-reviewed article on supply chain and national security in 2022.

The 2030 World Expo Busan Committee appointed Jason WAVE Ambassador of the futurist nonprofit WAVE platform.

Before founding Prestige Economics in 2009, Jason was a Risk Specialist at McKinsey and Chief Energy and Commodity Economist at Wachovia (Wells Fargo).

Jason holds master’s degrees in Applied Economics, Negotiation, and Geman.