<p>Drawing from his remarkable scope of geopolitical and global economic expertise, Vijay Vaitheeswaran provides insight on how businesses can strategize, innovate, and find opportunity in today’s disruptive landscape.</p><p>With a career that has taken him from Mexico City to London to Shanghai, Vijay Vaitheeswaran brings an impressive breadth and depth of expertise to topics ranging from globalization, politics and economics to international trade, supply chain and labor disruptions. His years in China inform his deeply qualified perspective on Asia’s role in the global economy and on China’s dynamic private sector—and he’s widely regarded as an expert on China’s impact on international markets and its emergence as an economic superpower.</p><p>Currently the global energy and climate innovation editor of <em>The Economist</em>, Vijay previously held roles as <em>The Economist’s</em> U.S. business editor and its first China bureau chief. He also led the editorial team that launched the “Global Business Review,” a highly successful app and the first bilingual product in <em>The Economist</em>’s 175-year history. He is the author of three highly regarded books including <em>Need, Speed and Greed: How the New Rules of Innovation Can Transform Businesses, Propel Nations to Greatness, and Tame the World’s Most Wicked Problems</em>, which Kirkus declared “a perfect primer for the post-industrial age.”</p><p>Vijay helps audiences make sense of this era of global uncertainty, breaking down the big-picture trends to assess impacts on the U.S. economy, and providing likely scenarios toward sustainable recovery and rejuvenation for American and international industries alike. He deciphers the international feedback loop – from a rising China and bellicose Russia to the shift from globalization to "slowbalization”—sharing insight and strategies to help companies and corporate leaders stay resilient, innovate, and thrive in this new shifting landscape.</p>
Award-winning <i>Economist</i> Senior Editor and World Economic Forum Advisor; Foremost Expert on China, Innovation, and Mega Trends Driving Business and Competition
<ul><li><strong>The Disrupted Economy: What Lies Ahead for Business?</strong></li><li>After a record-breaking bull market and unprecedented economic boom, we are now in the midst of historic fluctuations in employment, consumer demand, share valuations, capex and R&D investment and other important indicators of economic wellbeing. The backdrop to today's challenges include festering trade and tariff battles, the unnerving unreliability of supply chains and a technology cold war with China. Vijay Vaitheeswaran, with experience as U.S. Business Editor and China Business Editor at <em>The Economist</em>, helps audiences make sense of this highly unsettled business climate. Vijay breaks down the big picture trends to assess how challenging this period of uncertainty might get for the U.S. economy, and the likely scenarios toward sustainable recovery and rejuvenation for American industries. And he deciphers the international feedback loop – from a rising China and bellicose Russia to the shift from globalization to "slowbalization" – to help businesses strategize, innovate, and find opportunity in today’s disruptive landscape.</li><li><strong>The NEW Innovation Revolution: How to Win in the Post-Covid Economy</strong></li><li>“Bad companies are destroyed by crisis, good companies survive them, great companies are improved by them.” So declared Andy Grove, the legendary former chairman of Intel, three decades ago. How can companies and corporate leaders today rise to the challenges of the post-pandemic landscape, so that they too emerge stronger? The answer is to embrace radical innovation fueled by bottom-up solutions. Many companies are too top-down and bureaucratic to be innovative in normal times. However, a crisis can unleash the animal spirits. Business history reveals that in a small crisis power gets centralized in the C-suite, but that in a really big crisis power flows down to those most capable of responding quickly and imaginatively. Vijay Vaitheeswaran persuasively argues this new innovation revolution will be driven by Frugality – Proximity – Agility - Connectivity and Vitality. And these “Five Pillars,” says Vijay, provide a roadmap to the post-Covid economy.</li><li><strong>Energy in Today’s World</strong></li><li>With his extensive experience covering energy topics for <em>The Economist</em>, authoring two books on the subject, and chairing the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Energy, Vijay tackles the topic of energy. Covering the politics, economics, business, and technology issues, he helps audiences understand what the world’s energy situation is, how it affects their country, and what the future will look like in terms of energy (in)dependence, and how it affects regional strategic partners and geopolitics.</li><li><strong>Global Warning: How the New Rules of Innovation Can Transform Businesses, Propel Nations to Greatness, and Tame the World's Most Wicked Problems</strong></li><li>Vijay V. Vaitheeswaran, award-winning author and Energy & Climate Innovation Editor of The Economist, will deliver a provocative keynote address that surveys the megatrends reshaping the 21st century global economy, from the prospects for future pandemics to the disruptive and widespread impacts of climate change. Global warming in particular poses enormous challenges, and if left unchecked, could devastate significant parts of the global economy, turn low-lying and vulnerable parts of the world uninhabitable, spread disease and famine and fuel refugee crises. However, a much more open, accelerated and ambitious approach to climate innovation could also produce many solutions over the next decade as every industry in every geography is forced to respond to this existential threat. </li></ul>