Dr Matt Finch is a strategy and foresight practitioner. He helps companies, communities, and institutions to surface new ideas and bring them to action. His work spans policy consultation, scenario planning, strategy, and professional development for staff at all levels. Currently an Associate Fellow of Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford, Dr Finch serves as a programme director for custom executive education programmes, alongside teaching on MBA and Executive MBA courses, and contributing to the Oxford Scenarios Programme and Oxford Scenarios Facilitation Programme.

He has worked globally in the public, private, and non-profit sectors as well as academia, and has advised clients across fields including pensions, manufacturing, outer space governance, information security, pharmaceuticals, healthcare, intellectual property and the legal sector, heritage and environmental conservation, education, and broadcast media. He has spoken in both the British House of Commons and the Australian Federal Parliament and was a host of the OECD's Government After Shock pandemic podcast.

Dr Finch’s public projects include scenarios for global internet governance created with auDA, the administrator of Australia’s .au domain; workshop design and facilitation for the OECD; scenarios for Energy Consumers Australia; the future of Norwegian schools for the University of Oslo; impact evaluation methodologies for the Spanish Ministry of Culture and Sport; plus scenario work on the European Commission’s Horizon-funded IMAJINE project on the future of regional inequality. He is also an adviser to the UK All-Party Parliamentary Group for Future Generations. From 2021–2024, Dr Finch served an extended term as a member of the Strategic Foresight Expert Working Group for the European cybersecurity agency ENISA.

Dr Finch holds a PhD in Modern Intellectual History from the University of London, has trained in psychodynamic group facilitation with the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust, and is a graduate of the CFAR Dynamics of Consulting programme.