Amy Luers is senior advisor of Future Earth and director of the Sustainability in the Digital Age Initiative. She also sits on the Foresight Committee of the Veolia Institute. Luers has over 25 years of experience working on sustainability at the intersection of science, technology, and policy. She served as assistant director of climate resilience and information in the Obama White House. Previously, Luers was senior environment manager at Google and spent a number of years directing the water and climate security investments at the Skoll Global Threats Fund. Luers is a member of the U.S. Council on Foreign Relations and has served on committees of the U.S. Global Change Research Program and the National Academies of Sciences.

Dr. Luers started her career working in rural water development in Latin America as co-founder and the first executive director of Agua Para La Vida (Water for Life). She sits on several advisory boards including the Carnegie Climate Governance Initiative, the International Observatory on AI and Digital Technologies, and the US National Council for Science and the Environment. Luers holds a Ph.D. in environmental science and an M.A. in international policy studies, from Stanford University; a B.S. and M.S. in environmental systems engineering from Humboldt State University; and a B.A. in philosophy from Middlebury College. She has published in both peer-reviewed and popular media on big data and the digital age, science communication, climate policy and vulnerability and resilience of human-environmental systems.