Ian Bremmer

Ian Bremmer is President and Founder of Eurasia Group, the world’s leading global research and advisory firm, and GZERO Media, a digital media company providing intelligent and engaging news coverage of international affairs. He is credited with bringing the craft of political risk to financial markets and for establishing it as an academic discipline. His definition of emerging markets — “those countries where politics matters at least as much as economics for market outcomes” — has become an industry standard. “G-Zero”, his term for a global power vacuum in which no country is willing and able to set the international agenda, is widely used by policymakers and thought leaders. Bremmer is the author of eleven books including The Power of Crisis: How Three Threats—and Our Response—Will Change the World. He holds a master’s degree and a doctorate in political science from Stanford University and a bachelor’s degree in international relations from Tulane University. He currently teaches at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and previously was a professor at New York University. Ian is also a senior fellow at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.