Empowering Exceptional Decision-Making for a Changing Planet
Julia Armstrong D’Agnese built Earth Knowledge around a simple belief: leaders can’t navigate a changing planet without seeing the whole system.
For years, she watched leaders make consequential decisions with only part of the picture.
The data was all there. Climate data. Weather data. Ecological data. Economic data. But it lived in different places, spoke different languages, and rarely arrived in a form decision-makers could use with confidence.
As environmental risks accelerated and global systems grew more interconnected, she saw the gap becoming harder to ignore.
“$44 trillion of our global economy depends on our natural world, which is rapidly changing,” she says. “Yet most leaders navigate this with fragmented data. We built an Integrated Planetary IntelligenceTM platform that delivers the most comprehensive actionable analytics to mitigate risk and maximize opportunity.
That challenge became the foundation for Earth Knowledge, the company she co-founded to help organizations understand how planetary change affects business, government, infrastructure, and investment decisions.
At the center of Earth Knowledge is its Integrated Planetary Intelligence™ platform, a digital twin of Earth that combines environmental, climatic, and economic intelligence into a single, actionable view. Instead of forcing leaders to sift through disconnected datasets, the platform helps reveal how risks and opportunities are connected across entire systems.
It’s an ambitious undertaking, backed by a Science Council that includes globally recognized experts, including Dr. Don Wuebbles, who shares the Nobel Peace Prize for climate science, former National Weather Service Director Louis Ucellini, and other IPCC and NCA authors.
Earth Knowledge analytics and thought leadership are trusted by public and private sector organizations, including the State of California, the World Bank, World Wildlife Fund, TNFD, and Fortune 500 companies, including Eaton and ESRI. Microsoft also selected Earth Knowledge as a top partner in their elite Partner Growth Portfolio.
The work builds on a career spent bridging science, technology, and policy. Julia contributed to the Obama White House Climate Data Initiative, helped launch the Partnership in Resilience and Preparedness (PREP), and led strategic partnerships for the Earth Knowledge Portal, a sustainability platform used by organizations in more than 80 percent of the world’s countries.
In 2024, she was named B2B Women Tech Entrepreneur of the Year.
But the idea driving her work remains remarkably straightforward: the planet is the operating system beneath every economy, supply chain, and institution.
Earth Knowledge exists to help leaders see that system clearly, and make decisions with the world they actually inhabit, not the one they assume exists.
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