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United States Ari Wallach is a futurist and social systems strategist, recognized for his work in long-term thinking and strategic innovation across various sectors.
Ari Wallach has experience with Columbia University in the City of New York and has been an adjunct associate professor lecturing on innovation, AI, and the futures of governance and public policy.
Ari Wallach was the founder of Fast Company magazine's "FastCo Futures with Ari Wallach," where he convened and hosted conversations with world-changing thinkers and doers.
Ari Wallach is the founder and Executive Director of Longpath Labs, an initiative focused on bringing long-term thinking and behavior to individuals, organizations, and society.
Future-thinking strategist Ari Wallach provided insights on how to act less like a descendant and more like an ancestor in a McKinsey Author Talks feature.
Ari Wallach hosted a six-part documentary on PBS titled “A Brief History of the Future,” exploring innovations and ideas from 3-D printed homes to fusion.
Ari Wallach delivered a TED talk titled "3 ways to plan for the (very) long term," discussing the importance of long-term decision-making over short-term gains.
Ari Wallach was a speaker at the Geno Auriemma UConn Leadership Conference, where he was noted as the founder and Executive Director of Longpath Labs, an initiative focused on long-term thinking.
Ari Wallach is featured as an applied futurist who teaches leaders how to execute strategies for positive long-term generational and environmental impacts.
Ari Wallach is described as an applied futurist and Executive Director of Longpath Labs, contributing articles and videos on topics like 'Debunking doomerism' and 'Why your brain thinks you’re Matt Damon'.
Ari Wallach has served as a strategy and foresight advisor to the US Department of State.
Ari Wallach has served as a strategy and foresight advisor to the Ford Foundation.
Ari Wallach has served as a strategy and foresight advisor to the UN Refugee Agency and his company Synthesis Corp. worked with them to develop UNHCR labs.
Ari Wallach has served as a strategy and foresight advisor to the RacialEquity 2030 Challenge.
Ari Wallach has served as a strategy and foresight advisor to Politico’s Long Game Forum.
Ari Wallach was born in 1974 in Guadalajara, Mexico, and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. His father, Raul Wallach, was a Polish Holocaust survivor. Wallach pursued his education at the University of California, Berkeley, where he studied Peace and Conflict Studies, focusing on Inter/Intra-national Psychodynamic Conflict Analysis and Resolution from 1993 to 1997. His early career involved work in media, government, and creative fields, including contributions to the Democratic National Committee, Clinton/Gore 96, and the US Institute of Peace in Washington, DC. He founded INFORUM, a non-partisan public affairs forum for young people, and later re:think media, a producer of public affairs content, serving as Vice President of Seed Media Group from 2006 to 2008.
In 2008, Wallach co-founded “The Great Schlep with Sarah Silverman,” a viral GOTV campaign that mobilized young Jewish voters for the Obama campaign. This initiative garnered significant media attention with over 342 million global media impressions and engaged more than 25,000 volunteers. The same year, he founded Synthesis Corp., a strategic innovation consultancy that served clients such as CNN, Volkswagen Global, The UN Refugee Agency, and the US State Department. Synthesis Corp. has worked with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to develop UNHCR labs focused on enhancing innovation and improving services for people of concern.
Wallach is the founder and Executive Director of Longpath Labs, an initiative dedicated to promoting long-term thinking and coordinated behavior to foster humanity’s flourishing on an ecologically thriving planet. He is the author of “Longpath: Becoming the Great Ancestors Our Future Needs.” His TED talk on Longpath has reached over 2.5 million views and has been translated into 19 languages. He also hosted Fast Company magazine’s “Fast Company Futures with Ari Wallach.” Wallach held an adjunct associate professor position at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, where he lectured on innovation, AI, and the futures of governance and public policy. In April 2024, he hosted a six-part documentary on PBS titled “A Brief History of the Future.”
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