<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 Surprising Future of Global Innovation</strong></li><li>Will Silicon Valley and Big Tech dominate global innovation in the 21st century? Or will new clusters of innovation from Boston to Berlin pose a real challenge as "hard tech" like synthetic biology and climate tech rise in importance relative to software? And could Bangalore and Beijing have the edge as new, bottom-up and crowd-sourced means of "frugal engineering" allow disruptive new business models to challenge gold-plated Western approaches and rivals? </li><li><strong>Hard Truths about Sustainability & the Energy Transition</strong></li><li>The energy world stands at a crossroads. Climate change remains a potent challenge, but the Green New Deal, the UN COP negotiations and the ESG investing trend have not achieved their aims. From Trump's America to farmers in Brussels to coal-belching China and India, the energy transition seems in trouble. And yet, look closer, and there are powerful drivers of change from the bottom up and the outside in--ranging from Big Oil investing heavily in decarbonizing molecules to Big Tech demanding clean firm power for its hyper-scaled data centers-- which are propelling global decarbonization in inventive new ways.</li><li><strong>How Business Can Flourish in an Age of Disruption</strong></li><li>Economist special report by Vijay on trade, tariffs, and Trump boldly and correctly predicting that "slow-balization" would replace globalization (see PDF)</li><li>Confidential video of full keynote speech, not for sharing/rebroadcast (authorization from Vijay needed to access)</li><li>Vijay moderates Oxford-style Economist debate on activist investing</li><li><strong>Rethinking the AI & Energy Nexus</strong></li><li>Far-sighted Economist special report by Vijay predicting the digital revolution in biotech and medicine </li><li>Why taming climate change requires electrifying almost everything, Economist special report by Vijay </li><li>How Big Tech’s insatiable quest for power will turbocharge Big Oil’s decarbonization </li><li>Vijay moderating fireside chats at the International Energy Agency’s major summit on AI and Energy held in Paris in December 2024 with Google’s CSO and other leaders</li></ul>