Learn strategies for success in our evolving global market.
Ian Bremmer
EXPERT ON GLOBAL POLITICAL RISK
PRESIDENT OF EURASIA GROUP
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR
SPEAKING FEE: $60,000 - $75,000
Meet Ian
Thought-leadership on the geopolitics of AI
Creator of Wall Street’s first global political risk index
Helping individuals, businesses and policymakers make sense of the world around us
Ian Bremmer is a political scientist who helps business leaders, policy makers, and the general public make sense of the world around them. He is president and founder of Eurasia Group, the world's leading political risk research and consulting firm, and GZERO Media, a company dedicated to providing intelligent and engaging coverage of international affairs. Ian is an independent voice on critical issues around the globe, offering clear-headed insights through speeches, written commentary, and even satirical puppets.
Ian is credited with bringing the craft of political risk to financial markets, creating Wall Street's first global political risk index (GPRI), and for establishing political risk as an academic discipline. His definition of emerging markets— "those countries where politics matters at least as much as economics for market outcomes”—has become an industry standard. “G-Zero,” his term for a global power vacuum in which no country is willing and able to set the international agenda, is widely used by policymakers and thought leaders.
A prolific writer, Ian is the author of eleven books, including two New York Times bestsellers, Us vs Them: The Failure of Globalism, which examines the rise of populism across the world, and his latest book The Power of Crisis: How Three Threats—and Our Response—Will Change the World, which details a trio of looming global crises (health emergencies, climate change, and technological revolution) and outlines how governments, corporations and concerned citizens can use these crises to create global prosperity and opportunity.
He is the host of GZERO World with Ian Bremmer, which airs weekly on US national public television. Ian is also a frequent guest on CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, the BBC, Bloomberg, and many other television stations around the world. He also serves as the foreign affairs columnist and editor at large for Time magazine.
Ian earned a master's degree and a doctorate in political science from Stanford University, where he went on to become the youngest-ever national fellow at the Hoover Institution. He received his bachelor's degree in international relations from Tulane University. He currently teaches at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs and previously was a professor at New York University.
SPEAKING TOPICS
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To navigate globalization's choppy waters, every business leader analyzes economic risk when considering overseas investments or looking at market exposure. But do you look beyond reassuring data about per-capita income or economic growth--to assess the political risk of doing business in specific countries? If not, you may get blindsided when political forces shape markets in unexpected ways--from European accession in Turkey, social unrest in India, or protectionist legislation on China. Acclaimed political analyst and entrepreneur Ian Bremmer explains that by blending political and economic risk analysis, you make savvier investment decisions--seizing valuable opportunities around the globe while avoiding danger zones.
At this presentation audiences will learn:
- How to spot political risk on the horizon and balance it against economic opportunities—and what it means for your global investments
- How to understand the opportunities, and dangers, of dramatic Chinese growth
- What are the trends around global terror, proliferation, and shifting geopolitics, and how it impacts the global markets
- What growing political risk means for the global economy, and where opportunities are
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The fallout from the still-unfolding global financial crisis provides several perfect examples of "fat tail" risk, those that flow from the low-probability, high-impact events that generate upheaval more often than we think. Ian Bremmer shares with audiences how an understanding of the political dynamics generated by the financial crisis helps us forecast market risks, why politics matter more than ever for market performance, why the world's wealthiest countries have begun to behave like emerging market states, and what all this means for investors and companies.
At this presentation audiences will learn:
- The risks that flow from low-probability, high-impact events...like the global financial crisis
- Why politics matter more for the performance of markets and for issues ranging from defaults to nationalization to regulatory reforms
- Why developed states are behaving more like emerging markets
- The shift from New York, Shanghai, and Mumbai to Washington, Beijing, and Delhi—and the risks that this trend creates
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The global order that prevailed since the end of the Second World War has hit its limits. A breakdown in longstanding domestic, regional, and international political equilibria is making policymakers both less able and less willing to collaborate internationally. The result: a G-Zero world characterized by a growing vacuum in global governance.
Ian Bremmer predicts a new world order that will succeed our G-Zero reality. The question, is whether citizens across the world will remain passive throughout this process, or take on a proactive role in determining what future they want to live in. This new world order will be characterized by three important developments:
1. The end of a cycle
2. The end of politics as you knew it
3. Saving global governance from the G-Zero
Ian will share his insights and views to help attendees understand the broader issues to consider as they formulate policy portfolios for the years ahead.
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