Luke Tay

Founder, Cornucopia FutureScapes

Luke leads Cornucopia, a Singapore-based, globally oriented foresight and strategy practice with a focus on food security, sustainability, technology, geopolitics, urban and national development, and cross-stakeholder international collaboration. An international futurist and agrifood investor, he advises corporates, startups, institutions, governments, and international organisations, and supporting foresight capability development, future-ready strategic transformation, and new agrifood and sustainability initiatives. Luke speaks and writes for a range of policy, foresight, sustainability, entrepreneurship, and innovation platforms, addressing emerging opportunities in resilience, ESG, carbon markets, environmental citizenship, countering misinformation, and agrifood supply chains. Luke is an adjunct lecturer at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy and the Civil Service College. He has authored chapters on the future of Asian food systems, and on global water futures. Before founding Cornucopia, Luke served for two decades in leadership and management roles in the agrifood and transport spheres of the Singapore public service, including foresight and strategic planning, international relations, people development, infrastructure development, operations, and corporate governance portfolios. In 2023, Luke was awarded Singapore’s Public Service Medal. A historian and political scientist, Luke graduated summa cum laude (BA, MA) from the University of Pennsylvania in 2003. Luke is an active member of peak international foresight bodies: the World Futures Studies Federation, the Association of Professional Futurists, and the Asia-Pacific Futures Network.

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Cornucopia FutureScapes is a Singapore-based, globally-oriented foresight, strategy and policy practice equipping governments, organisations, and communities for future-readiness. Key focal themes include geopolitics, the climate emergency, and sustainable development; smart cities and the future of food-energy-water-urban systems, and design and strategy for ESG transformation; corporate, startup, and social innovation; future tech and value chains; and leadership and youth foresight, and national and global ecocitizenship. Cornucopia identifies emerging issues and develops scenarios to illuminate organisations’ SWOT landscape, translating takeaways into future-ready strategies, plans, innovations, narratives, and collaborations. Clients and stakeholders include international organisations, government agencies, and MNCs/SMEs/startups from the agrifood and sustainability sectors and beyond.

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