About

Natalia Vasquez leads strategic foresight on artificial intelligence and impact futures at Autodesk and serves as an appointed member of the National Academy of Sciences. At IDEO she led climate change strategy and technology innovation initiatives with Fortune 500 companies, VCs, and philanthropies—from DeepMind to The Rockefeller Foundation. Prior she worked for the U.S. Department of Energy, The Nature Conservancy, and with MIT on tech for good. Natalia serves as an Earthshot Prize Nominator and Keeling Curve Prize Judge. Her work has been recognized by Forbes, Bloomberg, and Fast Company’s World Changing Ideas Award. She has exhibited installations to immerse leaders in possible futures at forums ranging from the United Nations COP to the Ellen MacArthur Foundation's Summit for 100 top global brands. She is currently incubating the Earth Alignment Project, a consortia initiative to advance AI alignment to safeguard the systems that sustain life.