Jason Schenker is a top-ranked financial market forecaster as well as a futurist. He helps private companies, public corporations, central banks, and industry groups understand financial market risks -- and the future technology changes that can impact individuals, industries, and professions.
Since 2010, Bloomberg News has ranked Mr. Schenker one of the most accurate “Bloomberg Best” financial market forecasters in the World in 40 different categories, including #1 in the world for his forecast accuracy of U.S. jobs, Brent and WTI crude oil prices, natural gas prices, gold prices, platinum prices, palladium prices, copper prices, aluminum prices, nickel prices, zinc prices, tin prices, the Euro, the Pound, the Swiss Franc, the Russian Ruble, the Brazilian Real, Chinese Yuan, and six other categories.
For almost 15 years, Mr. Schenker has been a Keynote Speaker. He has written four books that have become #1 Best Sellers on Amazon: Jobs for Robots, Commodity Prices 101, Recession-Proof, and Electing Recession. He also wrote the books Robot-Proof Yourself and Be the Shredder, Not the Shred. He is editor of The Robot and Automation Almanac, which is compiled annually by The Futurist Institute.
Mr. Schenker also founded The Futurist Institute in October 2016, for which Mr. Schenker has created a rigorous course of study that includes 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, and The Future of Healthcare. Mr. Schenker is also an instructor for LinkedIn Learning, for which he has released a course on Corporate Finance Risk Management.
Mr. Schenker holds a Master’s in Applied Economics from UNC Greensboro, a Master’s in Negotiation from CSU Dominguez Hills, a Master’s in German from UNC Chapel Hill, and a Bachelor’s in History and German from The University of Virginia. He also holds Certificates in FinTech and Supply Chain Management from MIT. Mr. Schenker holds the professional designations CMT® (Chartered Market Technician), CVA® (Certified Valuation Analyst), ERP® (Energy Risk Professional), and CFP® (Certified Financial Planner). He is also a Certified Futurist and Long-Term Analyst (FLTA). Mr. Schenker is currently completing a certificate in Cybersecurity at Carnegie Mellon University.
Based in Austin, Mr. Schenker is a one of only 100 CEOs on the Texas Business Leadership Council, a group that advises Texas elected leadership at the state and federal level. He also sits on multiple boards and is a Governance Fellow of the National Association of Corporate Directors. Mr. Schenker is on the advisory board of Hidden Star, a non-profit focused on helping low-income, minority, and disadvantaged entrepreneurs start and succeed. Mr. Schenker is also a director of the 2018 class of the Texas Lyceum, a non-partisan, non-profit that fosters business and policy dialogue on important U.S. and Texas issues.
