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Ian Bremmer
OccupationPolitical scientist, author, entrepreneur
NationalityUnited States
EducationB.A., Tulane University
Ph.D., Stanford University
Website
http://www.eurasiagroup.net/about-eurasia-group/who-is/ian-bremmer

Ian Bremmer (born November 12, 1969) is an American political scientist specializing in US foreign policy, states in transition, and global political risk. He is president of Eurasia Group, the global political risk consultancy. He is of Armenian and German descent.[1]

Bremmer’s books include the bestselling The J Curve: A New Way to Understand Why Nations Rise and Fall (Simon & Schuster, 2006), named a Book of the Year by The Economist Magazine,[1] and The Fat Tail: The Power of Political Knowledge for Strategic Investing (Oxford University Press, 2009, with Preston Keat). He is a regular contributor to The Wall Street Journal and a contributing editor at Foreign Policy, The National Interest, and Survival. Bremmer has also written for such publications as The Harvard Business Review, Foreign Affairs, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, The International Herald Tribune, and The New York Times.

Bremmer is most widely known for advances in the field of political risk and, more directly, bringing political science as a discipline to the financial markets. In 2001, Bremmer authored Wall Street’s first global political risk index, now the GPRI (Global Political Risk Index) —a joint venture with investment bank Citigroup. Bremmer's definition of an emerging market as "a country where politics matters at least as much as economics to the market"[2] is a standard reference in the political risk field.

Among his professional appointments, Bremmer presently serves on the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs and the Advisory Board of the Westport Public Library. In 2007, he was named as a 'Young Global Leader' of the World Economic Forum.

Bremmer received his B.A. at Tulane University, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in political science from Stanford University in 1994. He then served on the faculty of the Hoover Institution where, at 25, he became the Institution’s youngest ever National Fellow. He has held research and faculty positions at Columbia University (where he presently teaches), the EastWest Institute, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and the World Policy Institute, where he has served as Senior Fellow since 1997.

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References

  1. ^ "Here's how the world works". Retrieved 2008-08-01.
  2. ^ Managing Risk in an Unstable World

Ian Bremmer

Eurasia Group