Ian Bremmer

Ian Bremmer

• One of the world’s leading authorities on risk and effects of geopolitics and global economics on corporations.
• He is president and founder of Eurasia Group, the world’s leading political risk research and consulting firm
• He created Wall Streets’ first global political risk index.
• A political scientist who helps business leaders, policy makers, and the general public make sense of the world around them

Ian Bremmer created Wall Street’s first ever global political risk index. He is a sought after adviser on international risk management on the geopolitical and economic landscape.

Ian Bremmer’s Eurasia Group, global political risk research and consulting firm provide financial, corporate and government clients with information and insight on how political developments affect markets. Ian’s own analysis focuses on global macro political trends and emerging markets, which he defines as “those countries where politics matter at least as much as economics for market outcomes.” Bremmer provides strategies that help minimise both long and short term risk by taking into account both the political and economic factors that affect the global business environment.

Speaking Topics

Ian Bremmer has authored and published four books on the global political and economic landscape. These titles form the basis of his speaking presentations.

• The J Curve: A New Way to Understand Why Nations Rise and Fall
• The Fat Tail: The Power of Political Knowledge for Strategic Investing
• The End of the Free Market: Who Wins the War Between States and Corporations?
• Every Nation for Itself: Winners and Losers in a G-ZERO World
• China, India and Beyond: The Opportunities and Pitfalls of Asian Growth
• The Politics of Global Energy
• Managing Risk in an Unstable World
• The End of the Free Market: Who Wins the War Between States and Corporations?
• Political Risk to Financial Markets
• Emerging Markets—“those countries where politics matters at least as much as economics for market outcomes”

Ian is a panelist for CNN International’s ‘Connect the World’ programme and appears frequently in the media as a political risk expert. He holds a PhD in Political Science from Stanford University and he lectures at Columbia University in the USA.