CONTRIBUTORS

ANTONIO BARROSO is an analyst in Eurasia Group’s Europe practice. His primary areas of expertise include European integration and political and economic developments in southern Europe. Prior to joining Eurasia Group, Antonio worked at the Center for Political and Constitutional Studies under the Spanish Ministry of the Presidency and the Center for Sociological Research in Madrid. Antonio received master’s degrees from Columbia University and the College of Europe in Brugge, Belgium.

IAN BREMMER is the founder and president of Eurasia Group, the leading global political risk research and consulting firm. The company provides financial, corporate, and government clients with information and insight on how political developments move markets.

Bremmer created Wall Street’s first global political risk index and has authored several books, including the national bestsellers Every Nation for Itself: Winners and Losers in a G-Zero World and The End of the Free Market: Who Wins the War Between States and Corporations? Bremmer is a contributor for the Financial Times A-List and Reuters.com and writes “The Call” blog on ForeignPolicy.com. Bremmer has a PhD in political science from Stanford University (1994), and he presently teaches at Columbia University. His analysis focuses on global macro political trends and emerging markets, which he defines as “those countries where politics matter at least as much as economics for market outcomes.”

CHRISTOPHER GARMAN is head of emerging market strategy and the Latin America practice at Eurasia Group. Chris has published articles in World Politics, Latin America Research Review, and the Brazilian Journal of Political Economy. Chris is a dual citizen of the United States and Brazil. Previously, Chris worked as a senior political analyst at Tendências Consultoria Integrada, a leading Brazilian economic consulting firm. He earned a master’s degree in political science from the University of California, San Diego.

GLOBAL AGENDA COUNCIL ON GEOPOLITICAL RISK. The Network of the Global Agenda Councils (GAC) is a unique, global community of more than fifteen hundred premier thought leaders who are the foremost experts in their fields of academia, business, government, international organizations, and society. Grouped into more than eighty councils, GAC members commit their extensive intelligence, passion, knowledge, and insights to jointly shape the global and regional agenda.

The GAC members meet annually at the Summit on the Global Agenda, the world’s largest brainstorming, which is hosted in partnership with the government of the United Arab Emirates. Through interdisciplinary, collaborative, and cross-council interactions, the GAC members challenge existing thinking and develop new pathways and innovative solutions to address the greatest issues facing our world today. These insights and initiatives are amplified by the work of all of GAC members, in their respective fields, to help shape the global agenda, and are integrated into the World Economic Forum activities and communities to accomplish its mission of improving the state of the world.

DAVID F. GORDON is Eurasia Group’s head of research and director of global macro analysis. Before joining Eurasia Group, David spent more than ten years working at the highest levels of U.S. foreign and national security policy processes. David served as the director of policy planning under Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, held a top management role at the National Intelligence Council, and served as the director of CIA’s Office of Transnational Issues.

JENNIFER HARRIS currently serves on the secretary’s Policy Planning Staff at the U.S. Department of State, covering global markets, energy, and geo-economic issues. Jennifer is also the lead architect of Secretary Clinton’s economic statecraft agenda, launched in 2011. Previously, Jennifer was a five-year member of the U.S. National Intelligence Council. Her work has appeared in a number of media and academic outlets, including The New York Times and The Washington Quarterly. A Truman and a Rhodes Scholar, she holds degrees in economics and international relations from Wake Forest University (BA) and Oxford University (MPhil), and a JD from Yale Law School.

ALEXANDER KLIMENT is an analyst in Eurasia Group’s Eurasia practice, focusing on the politics and economy of Russia, as well as comparative strategy across emerging markets. Alex has worked as a journalist for the Financial Times in São Paulo, Brazil, and Washington, DC. Alex holds a master’s degree in international affairs and economics from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and a bachelor’s degree in history and Slavic literature from Columbia University.

NADER MOUSAVIZADEH is chief executive of Oxford Analytica, the leading global analysis and advisory firm. An investment banker at Goldman Sachs from 2004 to 2009, he served from 1997 to 2003 at the United Nations in the Office of the Secretary-General. A graduate of Harvard College and a Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford, Mr. Mousavizadeh received his MBA from MIT. He is a global affairs columnist for Reuters and the coauthor, with Kofi Annan, of Interventions: A Life in War and Peace.

DOUGLAS REDIKER was nominated by President Barack Obama and confirmed by the U.S. Senate in 2010 to represent the United States on the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund, a position he held through early 2012.

In 2007, he returned to Washington, DC, after living and working for almost two decades in Europe, where he served as a senior investment banker and private equity investor for some of the world’s leading financial institutions. His experience includes working closely with governments, central banks, and the private sector on principal investments, privatizations, mergers and acquisitions, and debt and equity capital markets transactions.

He currently serves as a senior fellow at the New America Foundation, where, prior to joining the IMF board, he was the cofounder and director of the Global Strategic Finance Initiative, which focused on the relationship between global finance, capital flows, and foreign policy. He recently concluded his tenure as chairman of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Geopolitical Risk. He has moderated and participated in panels at WEF events on capital markets, the international monetary system, emerging markets, and global governance issues.

WILLIS SPARKS is an analyst at Eurasia Group focusing on global macro issues, particularly transnational risk and U.S. politics. Willis holds a master’s degree from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, where he specialized in international security policy and the study of the former Soviet Union. He also earned a master’s degree in international relations from the Institut d’Études Politiques (Sciences Po) in Paris. Willis holds two bachelor’s degrees from Brown University and is a graduate of the Juilliard School. He joined the firm in 2005 from the Council on Foreign Relations.

DMITRI TRENIN is director of the Carnegie Moscow Center. Prior to joining the center when it was founded in 1994, he had served for twenty-one years in the Soviet, and then Russian, armed forces. His missions included Iraq (military assistance group), Germany (liaison to Western allies), Switzerland (nuclear arms talks), and Italy (NATO Defense College). Trenin is the author of many books on international relations in Eurasia. His latest is Post-Imperium: A Eurasian Story.

NASIM ZEHRA, a security analyst, is a fellow of Harvard University’s Asia Center and hosts a current affairs show on Dunya Television. Ms. Zehra has taught at the School of Advanced International Studies of the Johns Hopkins University. She also served as Pakistan’s special envoy on UN reforms and was a member of the Committees on National Security and on Kashmir during 2003–04. Ms. Zehra writes in dailies and also lectures at think tanks and military and civilian training institutions within and outside of Pakistan. She is currently working on her forthcoming book, From Kargil to the Coup: 50 Days That Shook Pakistan.