Rawi Abdelal: GeoPolitical Expert

Globalization scholar who illuminates geopolitical impacts on business and supply chains, offering strategic playbooks to manage risk and pursue growth.

Quick Facts:

Highlights:
Formats Available: Keynote (45–60 min); Executive Briefing; Small Roundtable; Panel Moderator; Virtual Briefing
Preferred Audience Sizes: Leadership teams (25–150); Conference keynotes (200–2,500)
Outcomes:
  1. Clear geopolitical indicators leaders should monitor.
  2. Scenario frameworks to stress test supply chains and markets.
  3. Practical policy-aware steps to reduce operational exposure.

Travel & Fee Range:**

  • Travels from: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
  • **Fee range: $35,001 - $50,000

Keynote Topics

  • Imagining the Next Global Economy
  • Chekhov’s Gun: How the Conflict in Ukraine Will Affect the Future of Business and Society
  • How Businesses and Governments Can Mitigate Disinformation

Talent Short Bio

Rawi Abdelal is a widely cited Harvard Business School professor and authority on globalization, geopolitics, and how global political shifts affect business and supply chains. He advises executives and policy makers on scenarios and policy signals that matter.

His briefings blend academic rigor with clear, usable takeaways so corporate boards and leadership teams can prioritize actions rather than panic over headlines. Rawi’s work helps organizations understand how trade policy, energy shifts, and geopolitical tensions can ripple through operations, customers, and long term strategy.

He’s a strong fit for executive retreats, strategy offsites, and leadership programs preparing for an uncertain global environment.

Rawi Abdelal is recognized as one of the world’s foremost authorities on how globalization and geopolitics affect businesses, economies, supply chains and social structures

Herbert F. Johnson Professor of International Management at Harvard Business School, faculty co-chair of the Bloomberg-Harvard City Leadership Initiative and faculty chair of the Harvard Business School/YPO Presidents’ Program

Work focuses on empowering organizations to save capitalism from the ground up, suggesting many actions organizations can take to do this require little or no financial investment.

Widely published author and an eloquent and inspiring speaker, educator and storyteller who teaches about global financial systems, international politics, the influence of multinational firms on world politics, the transformation of energy markets, and policies affecting and emerging from Russia, China and India

Key Takeaways:
Discussions help business leaders understand the macro and micro forces driving current trends, how to make sense of the world we’re living in, and what they can do to help build a more sustainable, equitable futures

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Talent FAQ's

Q: Will Rawi provide industry specific scenarios?

A: Yes. He customizes briefings to sector exposures and business models.

A: Yes; small, interactive strategy sessions and board briefings are available.

A: He draws on academic research, policy monitoring, and real world case studies.

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