Leading Expert on Global Economic and Political Risk; President, Eurasia Group and GZERO Media; Best-Selling Author
Booking Ian Bremmer brings unmatched value to any event by offering clear, compelling insights into the geopolitical forces shaping business, policy, and society. As a world-renowned political scientist, bestselling author, and media commentator, he translates complex global trends into actionable takeaways for leaders and audiences alike. His engaging, independent perspective ensures your attendees leave with a deeper understanding of the challenges—and opportunities—emerging on the world stage.
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To navigate globalization, every business decision-maker weighs economic variables when considering overseas investments or market exposure. But to spot crucial opportunities and manage risk, they must also understand the political factors and trends changing our world in real-time. Whether it’s increasingly contentious relations between China and the United States, ongoing turmoil in the Middle East, the war in Ukraine, a more complex regulatory environment in Europe, a newly global focus from India, surges of populism in Latin America, heightened competition in Africa, or dozens of other politically driven trends, political analyst and entrepreneur Ian Bremmer will detail how political risk is creating new sets of business winners and losers.
At this presentation audiences will learn:
For most of human history, power belonged to whoever controlled territory, natural resources, and armies. In the coming century, it will belong to whoever controls artificial intelligence—the systems that will determine how economies grow, how militaries fight, how governments function, and how individuals understand the world around them.
That is not a prediction about a distant future. The decisions being made right now—about who builds these systems, who funds them, who they answer to, and what they optimize for—will be more consequential for the global balance of power than any election, any trade agreement, or any military alliance currently on the table.
Ian Bremmer will argue that AI is the most important geopolitical story of our time: not because of what it might do if it goes spectacularly wrong or right, but because of what it is already doing as it presently—simultaneously concentrating and diffusing power, reshaping competition, and programming human behavior at a scale that no previous technology has approached. Who—which business models, companies, and countries—sets the terms for this technology, and to what ends, is the question that will define the century.
In a G-Zero world—one without strong and sustainable international leadership—crises no longer remain confined to one region or one issue area. They cascade across energy markets, supply chains, alliance systems, financial conditions, and domestic politics. Ian Bremmer argues that this is the defining challenge of the current era: not simply that crises are more frequent, but that the world is less capable of coordinating an effective response.
Ian discusses the geopolitics of…
This talk explains why crisis management is now the central test of leadership for governments and companies alike—and how decision-makers can prepare for a world in which geopolitical shocks are more connected, more frequent, and harder to contain.
Ian Bremmer is a political scientist who helps business leaders, policymakers, and the general public make sense of the world around them. He is the president and founder of Eurasia Group, the leading geopolitical risk advisory firm, and GZERO Media, a digital media company providing intelligent and engaging coverage of international affairs. Ian is an independent voice on critical issues around the globe, offering clearheaded insights through speeches, written commentary, and even satirical puppets (really!).
A prolific writer, Ian is the author of eleven books, including the 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 covers a trio of looming global crises (health emergencies, climate change, and technological revolution) and outlines their potential to create global prosperity and opportunity.
Ian is the foreign affairs columnist and editor at large for Time magazine, and is the host of GZERO World with Ian Bremmer, a global affairs program that airs weekly on US public television. Uniquely positioned to bring unbiased analysis on complex geopolitical issues, Ian is a frequent guest on leading broadcast television, digital news, and podcasts— from CNN and MSNBC to FOX and Newsmax— as well as key international media. Ian also served as rapporteur of the UN High-Level Advisory Body on Artificial Intelligence.
Ian holds a master’s degree and a doctorate in political science from Stanford University and a 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. Ian is also a Senior Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.
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