Ian Bremmer: GeoPolitical Expert
Ian Bremmer a leading political scientist, global risk expert, and Eurasia Group founder helping leaders navigate a world transformed by geopolitics, technology, and power shifts.
- Highlights:
- Founder & President, Eurasia Group, the world’s top political risk firm
- President, GZERO Media, delivering accessible geopolitical analysis
- Author of The Power of Crisis, Us vs. Them, The J Curve, and Superpower
- Regular contributor to Time, CNN, Bloomberg, and BBC
- Creator of the term “G-Zero World”
- Ranked among the world’s top global thinkers by Foreign Policy
- Formats:
Keynote (45–60 minutes), fireside chat, panel moderation, or executive leadership briefing
- Audiences:
Corporate leaders, investors, policymakers, technology innovators, and global institutions navigating political risk and transformation
- Outcomes:
- Understand how global power shifts, AI, and geopolitics shape future markets.
- Learn how to manage risk and build resilience amid political and economic uncertainty.
- Gain actionable frameworks for leading in a fragmented, multipolar world.
- Travels from: New York, NY
- **Fee range: $100,000 - $250,000
Keynote Topics
Managing Risk in an Unstable World
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, 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.
At this presentation, audiences will learn:
How to spot political risk on the horizon and balance it against economic opportunities’
How to understand the opportunities, and dangers, of multilayered relations between Washington and Beijing
How to identify the broader trends remaking tomorrow’s global balance of power
How to process the technological changes now transforming geopolitics
Navigating the Geopolitical Recession
For the past 15 years, 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. Ian Bremmer explains that geopolitics has entered a bust cycle.
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 crises like the pandemic, the Russia-Ukraine war, climate change, and the emergence of disruptive new technologies.
Ian will share ideas and insights to help policymakers and business decision-makers navigate a world in accelerating transition.
The Power of Crisis
In a G-Zero world, one without strong and sustainable international leadership, Ian Bremmer argues we are unprepared for a trio of looming crises—future global health emergencies, transformative climate change, and the next technological revolution. Ian discusses the geopolitics of…
War in Ukraine: How will Russia’s challenge to the existing international system and China’s ongoing effort to find the most profitable role to play in ending it shape the next security order and the future of the global economy?
Climate change: What risks will it create for political and business decision-makers in years to come, and what lessons can it teach us about the future of international cooperation?
Tech: Ian assesses the growing risks of AI, quantum computing, cyberwarfare, and their impact on the future of government, trade, and the international system.
The Geopolitics of Artificial Intelligence
What comes after the G-Zero world order?
Today, it’s not governments but the world’s powerhouse tech companies that set the rules in the digital world. They, not our elected leaders, decide how you and I share ideas and information. They have extraordinary real-time, real-world power. How will the technology titans use that power?
They will transform the ways we work, think, learn, play, and live. We will have longer, healthier and more productive lives that would dazzle those who lived only in a dial-up world. But these same tech companies will also decide the world’s balance of military power, create new trade and investment patterns, and decide the outcome of our race to save the planet from a human-created climate catastrophe.
Ian Bremmer will argue that the tech titans will determine the next world order – and whether we have a brighter future or a world without freedom.
Talent Short Bio
Ian Bremmer is a globally recognized political scientist, author, and President and Founder of Eurasia Group, the world’s leading political risk research and consulting firm. A trusted voice in geopolitics and international strategy, Ian helps business and government leaders make sense of global instability, technological disruption, and emerging world orders.
Known for his sharp analysis and engaging style, Ian appears regularly on CNN, BBC, Bloomberg, and CNBC, and writes a weekly column for Time magazine. He is the author of multiple bestsellers, including The Power of Crisis, Us vs. Them: The Failure of Globalism, and The J Curve: A New Way to Understand Why Nations Rise and Fall.
Ian’s insights connect macro-level global trends with their real-world implications for business, markets, and society. As the creator of the term “G-Zero World” describing a global power vacuum where no country leads, he brings unmatched clarity to a complex world shaped by nationalism, technology, and shifting alliances.
A sought-after keynote speaker at world summits, corporate leadership forums, and policy events, Ian offers audiences pragmatic foresight: how to adapt, innovate, and lead amid political risk and digital transformation.
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Establishing Eurasia Group with just $25,000, Ian Bremmer has overseen its huge growth to a company with offices in New York, Washington and London with experts and resources in more than 90 countries.
The group provides advice and analysis regarding the economic outlook, global affairs and international relations, and as its president and public representative Bremmer is at the forefront of its endeavors.
Bremmer is a pioneer in the field of the application of political risk in financial markets. He created the first GPRI (global political risk index) on Wall Street and is viewed as the founder of the academic discipline of political risk. He has also set the standard definition for emerging markets, being countries where politics are as important as economics for market outcomes, and coined the widely accepted phrase “G-Zero” to describe a global power vacuum.
Author of several bestselling books, Bremmer’s works include Every Nation for Itself: Winners and Loses in a G-Zero World and The End of the Free Market: Who Wins the War between States and Corporations?
His writing regularly appears in Reuters and the Financial Times A-list, and he has published hundreds of articles in others of the world’s most prestigious journals. He makes regular appearances on CNBC, Fox, Bloomberg, CNN, the BBC and many other outlets.
Global Research Professor at New York University, Bremmer was awarded his Ph.D. in political science from Stanford University and became the youngest person ever to become a national fellow at the Hoover Institution. He is founding chairman of the Global Agenda Council on Geopolitical Risk at the World Economic Forum, where he has been named a Young Global Leader. Ian Bremmer serves on the President’s Council of the Near East Foundation, the Leadership Council for Concordia, the Board of Trustees of Intelligence Squared and is a Senior Fellow at the World Policy Institute.
He serves as the foreign affairs columnist and editor at large for Time magazine, and is the host of GZERO World with Ian Bremmer, which airs weekly on US national public television. Ian is also a frequent guest on CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, and many others globally.
Ian Bremmer also teaches at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and previously was a professor at New York University.
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Talent Videos
The Next Global Superpower Isn’t Who You Think | Ian Bremmer | TED (14:58)
In this TED Talk, Ian Bremmer explores why the next global superpower isn’t a nation — it’s technology — and what this means for governments, companies, and citizens.
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Summary
In this thought-provoking TED Talk, Ian Bremmer argues that the 21st century’s most powerful force isn’t a country — it’s technology. He begins by framing the concept of the “G-Zero World”, where no nation has both the will and capacity to lead global governance. In this vacuum, power is shifting toward the private technology sector — to companies that control data, AI, and digital infrastructure.
Bremmer highlights how major tech corporations now wield influence once reserved for superpowers, shaping economies, public opinion, and even geopolitics. He cites examples from social media’s role in elections to AI’s potential to transform warfare and governance. Unlike governments, these corporations operate globally without accountability to citizens, creating a new form of geopolitical tension between states and Silicon Valley.
He concludes by calling for collaboration between policymakers and technologists to establish digital governance frameworks that protect humanity’s shared interests. Without cooperation, he warns, the future could be dominated not by democracy or dictatorship — but by unregulated technology that governs us all.
Key Moments
- 01:51–05:30 — How technology companies have become geopolitical actors
- 05:31–08:10 — The rise of AI, data dominance, and algorithmic power
- 08:11–11:00 — The challenge of accountability and governance in tech
- 11:01–13:30 — The future of digital power: cooperation or control
Trump's popularity comes from a grievance-based story: Ian Bremmer
Ian Bremmer explains the roots of grievance-based populism and how emotional narratives, rather than ideology, now define political movements around the world.
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Summary
In this interview segment, Ian Bremmer discusses the foundation of former President Donald Trump’s enduring popularity, framing it as part of a broader global phenomenon of grievance-based populism. He explains that Trump’s message resonates not primarily because of policies, but because it taps into feelings of economic displacement, cultural insecurity, and distrust toward elites and institutions.
Ian situates this dynamic within a global trend, drawing parallels between populist movements in the U.S., Europe, and beyond. He notes that globalization has left segments of society feeling marginalized, creating fertile ground for leaders who promise recognition and belonging through opposition to “the establishment.”
He emphasizes that grievance politics thrives in environments where traditional media, social networks, and political structures amplify anger and division rather than offering solutions. Ian concludes that understanding this shift is critical — not just for politics, but for any organization seeking to navigate the new reality of emotionally driven leadership and public discourse.
Key Moments
- 00:00–01:20 — Introduction: the emotional roots of Trump’s popularity
- 01:21–02:40 — Global parallels: populism as a response to inequality and alienation
- 02:41–03:45 — The role of technology and social media in amplifying division
- 03:46–04:46 — Conclusion: the long-term impact of grievance-based politics
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