​I am a strategist that brings clarity and insight
into what is on the horizon.
Through my consultancy Abundance Studio, I help clients reimagine their potential and strengthen their competitiveness through
technology convergence and macrotrends.
​My track record includes futures work for government and industry, bespoke framework development for the intelligence community, technology competitiveness briefs for key decision makers in defense
and advisory work on societal implications of emerging technologies such as
artificial intelligence and longevity therapeutics.​
The fresh and inciteful way she approaches the world helped us break-free of our biases and dogmas and look at technology and its impact on strategy ways we never had before.
I consider Lydia a one-woman agent of change, thought leader, and social connector par excellence.
Dr. Aaron Bazin
Senior Strategist
US Special Operations Command
Dr. Kostopoulos is a one-woman powerhouse. I’ve never met a more experienced, well-rounded, well-traveled and adaptive practitioner of big themes in tech, defense, geopolitics, and the convergence of these three spheres. If you need a consultant with strategic understanding and future-driven vision, you need Lydia.
Meg Tucker
Founder, Valkyrie Project
Lydia is one of those rare people who combine true creative insight, sincere interest in others, and the able to Get Things Done. I have worked with her on several projects, and have been continually amazed at how quickly she sizes up a situation, identifies what needs to be done, and then begins working with everyone involved to make it happen. She has the rare power to listen intelligently, connect with her interlocutor, and then map out a way ahead pretty much in real time.
Thomas Wingfield
International Defense
Rand Corporation
There are very few people in the tech/creative world that I admire as well as come away as highly impressed as Dr. Lydia. The way she smoothly handles technology, social causes, creativity and much more is highly admirable. I only wish I could work with her everyday, because she’s a dream person to chat and collaborate with!
Pakko De La Torre-Rocha
Creative Director, Ai/XR/Content/Design
Bio: Dr. Lydia Kostopoulos is a globally recognized and award-winning complex systems strategist and foresight professional specializing in emerging and exponential technology, security, macrotrends and technology statecraft. She is the author of the book “Imagination Dilemma: tools to overcome it and thrive through disruption” which shares critical-thinking methods for imaginative and competitive future-oriented strategies. She also has the Imagination Dilemma book club which focuses on emerging and frontier technologies. Apart from her work with the US Department of Defense, US Special Forces, NATO, United Nations, Oxford Business School, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, multi-nationals and foreign governments, she is the founder of the compassionate AI startup AI Compassion Coach (which one the SilverEco award), has a boutique fashion label called Empowering Workwear by Lydia, and has made art in service of awareness on artificial intelligence. She has a human performance and healthy aging project called Project Nof1. She is the Chair of the newly formed IEEE standards working group on AI LLM safety and reliability of LLM deployment. Her work has brought her from the US to Europe, the Middle East and Asia where she brings her unique multi-disciplinary perspective.
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She obtained her PhD in Political Science and Security Policy from the University of Siena, her Masters in Peace and International Conflict from the University of Innsbruck, and her Bachelors in International Relations from the American University of Sharjah.