Arne Elias Corneliussen: GeoPolitical Speaker

    Geopolitical strategist, global advisor, and explorer Arne Elias Corneliussen helps leaders understand geopolitical risks, emerging opportunities, and the shifting world order.

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    Quick Facts:

      • Founder and CEO of NRCI Geopolitical Advisory
      • Political scientist with studies in the US, Egypt, and Chile
      • Traveled to more than 125 countries
      • Expert on geopolitical risk and global strategy
    • Formats:
    • Geopolitical Speaker | Global Strategist | Risk Advisor

    • Audiences:
    • Business leaders, investors, financial institutions, policymakers, government agencies, multinational corporations, industry associations, and organizations navigating global uncertainty.

    • Outcomes:
      1. Understand geopolitical risks and emerging opportunities
      2. Improve strategic decision-making in a changing world
      3. Anticipate global trends affecting business, trade, and security
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    • Travels from: Oslo, Norway
    • **Fee range: On Request

    Keynote Topics

    Arne Elias Corneliussen provides an insightful presentation of how AI will impact our societies in the future and create new opportunities and risks

    How AI will impact geopolitics, the global economy and future trends.

     

    UNDERSTANDING AND EXPLORING A GROWTH CONTINENT

    Arne Elias Corneliussen travelled on 10 fact-finding expeditions by public bus across 30 countries in western, southern, and eastern Africa. He travelled to more than 40 countries in Africa in total.

    In this fascinating and eye-opening presentation, Arne shares his unique insights, observations, and perspectives from travelling on the ground across the African continent.

    He shares perspectives on geopolitical, economic, and infrastructural developments across the African continent – and he provides key insights into finding the right local partner and building an on the ground team that will enable your business to grow in Africa.

    Talent Short Bio

    Arne Elias Corneliussen is an internationally respected geopolitical advisor, strategist, and founder and CEO of NRCI, a geopolitical advisory firm established in Oslo, Norway. For more than a decade, he has advised business leaders, financial institutions, and policymakers on geopolitical developments, strategic risks, and emerging global opportunities.

    A political scientist educated in the United States, Egypt, and Chile, Arne combines academic insight with an extraordinary level of real-world experience. His unique perspective stems from extensive fact-finding expeditions conducted across more than 125 countries, where he has traveled independently by bus, train, and car to assess geopolitical, economic, and security dynamics firsthand.

    His journeys have included ten major expeditions across 42 African nations, extensive travel along China’s Belt and Road corridors from Shanghai to Istanbul, and in-depth assessments of geopolitical developments throughout Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America. These experiences have provided him with unparalleled insights into the forces reshaping the global economy and international relations.

    Arne Elias Corneliussen is a geopolitical advisor who supports business leaders, financial companies, and policy makers.

    He is a political scientist and he studied in the US, Egypt, and Chile. He traveled around the world from a young age, and possesses a broad and deep global understanding of geopolitical and strategic events and dynamics. He is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of NRCI – a geopolitical advisory firm he established in Oslo, Norway, in 2010.

    Arne traveled to more than 125 countries, and he conducted a wide range of long overland fact-finding expeditions alone by bus, train, and car across Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and Latin America where he mapped geopolitical, security and business risks and opportunities. These overland fact-finding expeditions gave him extraordinary geopolitical, strategic, and business insights.

    He conducted 10 fact-finding expeditions to 42 countries on the African continent, and he traveled by public bus across 30 countries in western, southern, and eastern Africa. Arne Elias Corneliussen traveled on an expedition by train, bus and car from Shanghai to Istanbul across China, Central Asia, and the Caucasus to map infrastructure developments, logistics clusters, and the geopolitical landscape along One Belt One Road, also called the New Silk Road, which China develops.

    Arne Elias Corneliussen maintains close dialogue with a vast network of informed contacts on all levels in academia, business, diplomacy, and governments worldwide. He is program chair, conference host, moderator, and keynote speaker at Norwegian Risk Forum – NRCI’s annual geopolitical conference focusing on geopolitical risks and business opportunities worldwide.

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