Jason Schenker

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

Schenker has given over 1,000 keynote speeches on economic, financial market, and technology topics, including commodities, supply chain, futurist innovation, artificial intelligence (AI), the metaverse, quantum computing, energy and sustainability, geopolitics, demographics, and other topics. He has given speeches to public and private companies, industry groups, institutional investors, central banks, the U.S. State Department, the CIA, NATO, and global financial exchanges.

Schenker's 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.

Schenker is currently a LinkedIn "Top Voice." Additionally, LinkedIn recognized him as a “Top Public Speaking Voice” and "Top Economics Voice" in 2023 and 2024.

Over 1.1 million students have taken Schenker'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, finance, and supply chain. Schenker has also been an occasional columnist for Bloomberg Opinion.

As President of Prestige Economics, Bloomberg News has ranked Schenker #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, Schenker trains leaders to Become a Futurist®, including consulting, accounting, finance, and national security professionals.

Schenker is also 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.

Schenker 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 of both parties at the state and federal levels. He is on the TBLC Executive Committee, Economic Development Task Force, and Federal Issues Task Force.

Schenker is also a member of the Bretton Woods Committee (BWC), a Fellow of the Energy Institute, and a Board Leadership Fellow of the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD).

Schenker is the author of 36 books, and fifteen have been #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. National Intelligence University Press published Schenker’s peer-reviewed article on supply chain and national security in 2022.

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

Schenker holds a Master’s in Applied Economics from UNC Greensboro, a Master’s in Negotiation, Conflict Resolution, and Peacebuilding from CSU Dominguez Hills, a Master’s in Germanic Languages and Literature from UNC Chapel Hill, and a Bachelor’s in History and German from The University of Virginia. He has earned over a dozen professional certificates and certifications, including the FLTA® (Certified Futurist and Long-Term Analyst), CFP® (Certified Financial Planner), CMT® (Chartered Market Technician), ERP® (Energy Risk Professional), and SCR® (Sustainability and Climate Risk).

Schenker is currently a Non-Resident Fellow of the U.S. Joint Special Operations University at the U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) and an Adjunct Fellow for the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).

Schenker has given over 1,000 television interviews, including for CNBC, Bloomberg, BNN, Fox, CNN, and the BBC. He has also been a Guest Host on Bloomberg Television.