Valentina Boschetto Doorly is a senior Strategic Foresight expert with more than 15 years of experience applying foresight methodologies to business strategy, organizational transformation, and policy discussions. Her professional career spans both Ireland and Italy. After more than sixteen years in Ireland in executive roles within multinational corporations, she relocated to Italy in 2021, where she continues to work internationally as a futurist, advisor, and keynote speaker.
During her corporate career she served as Marketing and Sales Director at Diageo between London and Dublin. Subsequently led major commercial transformation initiatives and applied long-term foresight thinking to strategic planning in other large businesses. Her innovation led work has been recognized with several prestigious awards, including the All Ireland Marketing Awards.
Today she works internationally as a futurist, keynote speaker, and advisor, supporting organizations in integrating Strategic Foresight into decision-making and in establishing foresight capabilities and anticipatory governance practices.
She is the author of a book on megatrends published by Springer Nature, with more than 13,000 downloads, and her commentary has appeared in international media including BBC and Il Sole 24 Ore.
She serves on the Scientific Committee of Fondazione Nord Est, the research think tank of Confindustria for the North-East Italian economy.
Fun fact about Valentina: having relocated several times through cities and countries, she has turned relocation into an existential art. A decent swimmer, she keeps imagining daring sport adventures she may never undertake.
A guest everywhere; nowhere a foreigner.
