Ian Bremmer
President and Founder
Eurasia Group
Education
Tulane University
B.A., International Relations
1989Stanford University
M.A., Political Science
1991Stanford University
Ph.D., Political Science
1994Podcasts
35:44339: What Global Political Risk Consulting is All About w/ Ian Bremmer, Eurasia Group [Main T4C episode]
Dr. Ian Bremmer is a political scientist who helps business leaders, policy makers, and the general public make sense of the world around them. He is president and founder of Eurasia Group, the world's leading political risk research and consulting firm, and GZERO Media, a company dedicated to providing intelligent..
Career Path
Interview Highlights
“I was hoping that maybe I could help create a destination where young people could feel like we were being authentic, and we were trying to inspire them to get more involved in understanding the world.”
Best Career Advice
“When they say no, it’s more about them than it is about you.”
Career Challenge
“I started to feel like I was losing control of the content, that I was losing my expertise because it was too much. And there was a good six months in there where I thought maybe I needed to just make the firms smaller and downsize because I wasn’t going to be able to do this. I wasn’t sleeping enough. I was working too hard. It was unhealthy.”
Skills
International Relations, Political Science, Politics, Research, Policy Analysis, Social Media, Media Relations, Economics, Journalism, Entrepreneurship, Strategy, Diplomacy, University Teaching, Strategic Partnerships, Predictive Analytics, Foreign Affairs, Political Risk Analysis
Professional Interests
Joel Peterson, Robert L. Reynolds, Gretchen Rubin, TIME, Tulane University, World Economic Forum, Columbia | SIPA
