Amy Zalman

Advisory Specialist Leader - Defense, Security and Justice, Deloitte

Dr. Amy Zalman is a senior manager and futurist in Deloitte’s Government and Public Services practice, where she architects strategies and programs that accelerate defense and civilian clients’ capacity to thrive in the global information environment, both today and in the still-emerging future. Amy’s previous roles include Chief Executive Officer and President of the World Future Society, and the Chair of Information Integration at the U.S. National War College. She was the founder of Prescient, a foresight consultancy that supported Fortune 500 firms, governments, and non-profit organizations to anticipate and prepare for the future, and the founder and director of the Foresight Sandbox, an executive education program that provides strategic foresight training to business and government leader.
She was a professor of strategic foresight in the Culture, Communications & Technology Program at Georgetown University from 2016-2021, and has also held teaching positions at Cornell, New York University and the New School University. She has published over fifty articles and op-eds and poetry and literary translation and criticism; and provided keynotes and facilitation on five continents. She earned her doctorate from the Department of Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies at New York University and a Master of Fine Arts degree in poetry from Cornell.