Robert Avila

Associate, The Futures Strategy Group

Robert Avila is an economist working with the Futures Strategy Group in its scenario planning work for corporate and government clients. Mr. Avila has advised companies on strategy and market environment issues for more than twenty years. He is an authority on market modeling, business forecasting and scenario based planning. He has worked with companies to identify opportunities in troubled markets, evaluate growth opportunities and to prepare for competitive challenges.

Mr. Avila is the founder of FutureCrunch LLC, a New York based economic consulting firm. FutureCrunch develops mission-critical, data-driven insights and recommendations for business, drawing on its deep knowledge of industry and the economy, markets and consumers, to select the most relevant data and information to address the problem at hand.

Prior to founding FutureCrunch Mr. Avila worked at a number of major consulting firms including Deloitte, PwC and Coopers & Lybrand where he was the chief economist for the firms strategy practice and director of Economics & Policy Analysis. He has also worked as chief economist at The Futures Group doing scenario based strategy development for Fortune 100 companies and at SAGE Associates doing public policy analysis.

Mr. Avila’s work has been widely quoted in the press, including in Business Week, Fortune, Forbes, Forecast, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times. In addition, he has spoken before major trade associations, EIU conferences, the World Future Society, and the Planning Forum. Mr. Avila has also been a guest commentator on CBS Evening News and PBS’s News Hour. He has previously served as Adjunct Professor of Strategic Planning at Denver University’s Public Policy Institute