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United States Ian Bremmer is a distinguished political scientist and entrepreneur who advises leading executives, money managers, diplomats, and heads of state on global political risk and geopolitical changes.
Ian Bremmer is the president and founder of Eurasia Group, a global political risk research and consulting firm that advises on the impact of politics on businesses and investment decisions.
Ian is the founder of GZERO Media, a digital media company created to provide a broad, global audience with insights into today's complex, leaderless world.
Ian Bremmer is the foreign-affairs columnist and editor-at-large for Time magazine, regularly contributing his views on global political issues.
Ian Bremmer is a contributor for the Financial Times A-List, offering insights on global affairs.
In 2013, Ian Bremmer was named a Global Research Professor at New York University.
In 2019, Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs announced that Bremmer would teach an Applied Geopolitics course, and he delivered their Commencement Address in 2024.
In 2007, Ian was named a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum, where he is the founding chairman of the Global Agenda Council on Geopolitical Risk.
Ian Bremmer is the Harold J. Newman Distinguished Fellow in Geopolitics at the Asia Society Policy Institute.
Ian Bremmer serves on the President's Council of the Near East Foundation.
Ian Bremmer serves on the Leadership Council for Concordia.
Ian Bremmer serves on the Board of Trustees of Intelligence Squared.
Ian Bremmer hosts the US national public television show 'GZERO World with Ian Bremmer' on PBS.
Ian Bremmer was born on November 12, 1969, in Chelsea, Massachusetts. He grew up in housing projects and enrolled in St. Dominic Savio High School at age 11. By 15, he began his university studies, earning a BA in international relations, magna cum laude, from Tulane University in 1989. He continued his academic pursuits at Stanford University, where he obtained an MA in 1991 and a PhD in political science in 1994, focusing his doctoral dissertation on “The politics of ethnicity: Russians in the Ukraine.” His early life experiences and rigorous academic training laid the foundation for his future career in political risk.
In 1998, Bremmer founded Eurasia Group with an initial investment of 25,000. Under his leadership, the firm grew to become a prominent global political risk research and consulting firm with offices in major cities worldwide, including London (2000), Washington, DC (2005), Tokyo (2015), San Francisco and São Paulo (2016), and Brasilia and Singapore (2017). Initially concentrating on emerging markets, Eurasia Group expanded its scope to include frontier and developed economies, and established practices in geo-technology and energy issues. Bremmer is recognized for introducing the concept of political risk to financial markets and for developing Wall Street’s first global political risk index (GPRI).
Bremmer is also the founder of GZERO Media, a digital media company launched in 2017 with Eurasia Group. GZERO Media is dedicated to providing insights into global affairs, including a US national public television show, “GZERO World with Ian Bremmer,” on PBS. He has authored 11 books on global affairs, including the New York Times best-sellers “Us vs Them: The Failure of Globalism” and “The Power of Crisis: How Three Threats—And Our Response—Will Change the World.” He serves as the foreign-affairs columnist and editor-at-large for Time magazine and is a contributor to the Financial Times. His work has introduced key concepts such as the “J-Curve,” “State Capitalism,” “G-Zero,” “Weaponization of Finance,” “Pivot State,” “Geopolitical Recession,” “World Data Organization,” and “Technopolarity,” which have significantly influenced the discourse on international relations.
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