[18] Forensic Technologies International was founded in 1982 by two engineers, Joseph Reynolds and Daniel Luczak, to provide expert witnesses for litigation and visual presentations to demonstrate complex technical issues for juries.

[19][8] Forensic Technologies International rebranded itself as FTI Consulting in 1998, and in 1999 began trading on the New York Stock Exchange as FCN.

[20][21] After 1998, FTI's business focused increasingly on "financial surgery on troubled companies, either through bankruptcy proceedings or in workout situations with creditors.

[32] In January 2014, FTI Consulting acquired London-based TLG Partners, which produced a series of annual thought leader indexes.

[37] In 2019, FTI Consulting acquired Andersch AG, a leading German restructuring and advisory firm, as part of its strategic expansion in Europe.

The Japanese public broadcaster NHK reported that the consulting firm had a 'blacklist' of journalists to avoid calling on during the event.

[43] Their concern about some reporters who would spend long periods talking about their own opinions or ask thoughtless questions (or remarks) that could be unnecessarily stressful and painful to the victims watching the press conference was given as a reason to prepare the list.

Reporting found that FTI had helped to design, staff and run organizations and websites funded by energy companies that were made to appear to represent grass-roots support for fossil-fuel initiatives.