a public event
Lecture by Ian Bremmer, President of Eurasia Group: "Global Political Risk: Managing Through Economic Catastrophe"
Join us for a lunchtime lecture by Ian Bremmer followed by discussion with members of the UCLA community.
Monday, November 09, 2009
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
UCLA Anderson School of Management, Collins Center A-202
Los Angeles, CA 90095
Ian Bremmer 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.
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, 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 International Herald Tribune and the webzine Slate, 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 Wall Street Journal, 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.
Cost: Free and open to the public.
Sponsor(s): Burkle Center for International Relations, UCLA Anderson School of Management's Center for International Business Education & Research (CIBER)
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