Matt Finch is a strategy & foresight practitioner: he works with communities, companies, and institutions around the world to help them create innovative and effective strategies, programmes, partnerships, and offerings. He is an Associate Fellow of Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford.
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Matt Finch helps communities, companies, and institutions to create innovative and effective strategies, programmes, partnerships, and offerings. His work spans scenario planning and foresight, policy consultation and strategic direction, workshop facilitation and professional development.
Matt is an Associate Fellow of Oxford University’s Saïd Business School, where he teaches on the MBA & Executive MBA, and directs Custom Executive Education programmes. He has served as Lead Facilitator on the award-winning Oxford Scenarios Programme and a co-designer of the Oxford Scenarios Facilitation Programme.
Matt’s recent public work includes scenarios for the future of Internet governance for auDA, scenarios of future domestic energy consumption for Energy Consumers Australia, the future of Norwegian schools for the University of Oslo, impact evaluation methodologies for the Spanish Ministry of Culture & Sport, and foresight consultancy to the European Horizon-funded IMAJINE project on the future of regional inequality. Matt is an adviser to the UK All-Party Parliamentary Group for Future Generations, plus a member of the Futures Council at Australia’s National Security College, and from 2021-2024 served an extended term as a member of the Strategic Foresight Expert Working Group for the European cybersecurity agency ENISA.
He has worked globally in the public, private, and non-profit sectors as well as academia, and has advised clients across fields including pensions, outer space governance, pharmaceuticals and healthcare, intellectual property and the legal sector, heritage and environmental conservation, education, and broadcast media.
Matt holds a Ph.D. in Modern Intellectual History from the University of London. He has trained in group facilitation with the Tavistock & Portman NHS Trust, and is a graduate of the CFAR Dynamics of Consulting programme.
Matt has spoken at the British House of Commons and Australia’s Parliament House, and regularly serves as an invited speaker at conferences and events. His writing credits cover a range of print and online media in the US, UK, and beyond. From 2019-2024 he was a columnist at Information Professional magazine, and through 2020 he hosted the OECD’s COVID-response Government After Shock podcast.
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Thank you Matt for your inspiring talk at ‘Paint the town read’ conference Canberra.
Hope you will come to Lithgow NSW when we launch ‘Paint Lithgow Read’? 😉