<p>Ian Bremmer is a political scientist who helps business leaders, policymakers, and the general public make sense of the world around them. </p><p>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!). </p><p> A prolific writer, Ian is the author of eleven books, including <em>the New York Times </em>bestsellers, <em>Us vs. Them: The Failure of Globalism,</em> which examines the rise of populism across the world, and his latest book, <em>The Power of Crisis: How Three Threats—and Our Response—Will Change the World</em>, 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. </p><p> Ian is the foreign affairs columnist and editor at large for <em>Time </em>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. </p><p> 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. </p>
Expert on global political risk, bestselling author, President and founder of Eurasia Group and GZERO Media
<ul><li><strong>Navigating the Geopolitical Recession</strong></li><li>For the past two decades, the post-Cold War global order has been breaking down, leaving us to respond to a series of crises with both political, market, and business implications. Today, that breakdown is no longer theoretical: it is reshaping trade, war, technology, energy markets, and the capacity of major powers to cooperate in real time. Ian Bremmer argues that we have moved from a G-Zero world into a more dangerous phase of geopolitical recession—one defined not simply by a vacuum of leadership, but by mounting rivalry, transactional diplomacy, and weaker guardrails between the world’s biggest powers.</li><li>The world’s most powerful country— the United States — has become the most politically dysfunctional rich-world country. The world's most important bilateral relationship — US-China —is deteriorating more quickly than leaders can build new guardrails. Today's global institutions no longer reflect the world's true balance of power. The result: a growing vacuum of leadership and cross-border coordination. This geopolitical recession will continue to limit our ability to respond to simultaneous crises from Russia-Ukraine war to the Middle East to climate change, and the emergence of disruptive new technologies. </li><li><strong>Managing Risk in an Unstable World</strong></li><li>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. </li><li><strong>The Geopolitics of Artificial Intelligence</strong></li><li>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.</li><li>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.</li><li><strong>The Power of Crisis</strong></li><li>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.</li></ul>