Ian Bremmer Bio

Ian Bremmer

Ian Bremmer is president of Eurasia Group, a political risk consultant agency.

An expert on U.S. foreign policy, states in transition and global political risk, Bremmer's five books include "The J Curve: A New Way to Understand Why Nations Rise and Fall," selected by The Economist as one of the best books of 2006. 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 has also published over 200 articles and essays in The Harvard Business Review, Survival, The New Republic, Fortune, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, and The New York Times. He is a columnist for The International Herald Tribune and the webzine Slate, contributing editor at The National Interest, and a political commentator on CNN, FoxNews and CNBC.

Bremmer has spent much of his time advising world leaders on U.S. foreign policy, including U.S. presidential candidates from both Democratic and Republican parties, former Russian Prime Minister Sergei Kiriyenko, and former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

Bremmer received his Ph.D. in political science from Stanford University in 1994. He went on to the faculty of Stanford's Hoover Institution where, at 25, he became the institution's youngest 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. He lives in New York.

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