Ian Bremmer is president of Eurasia Group, the political risk consultancy. Bremmer's research focuses on US foreign policy, states in transition, and global political risk. His five books include Nations and Politics in the Soviet Successor States (Cambridge University Press, 1993), which became the standard college text on the post-Soviet states. In 2001, Bremmer authored Wall Street's first global political risk index, now the DESIX (Deutsche Bank Eurasia Group Stability Index)--a joint venture with investment bank Deutsche Bank. Bremmer has also published over 100 articles and essays in International Affairs, The Harvard Business Review, World Policy Journal, The New Republic, The New Statesman, Fortune, The Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, The International Herald Tribune, and The New York Times. He is a columnist for The Financial Times, 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 who share a commitment to a pro-engagement US foreign policy towards the developing world, including US Senators John Kerry (D-MA) and Lamar Alexander (R-TN), Japanese Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi, and former Russian Prime Minister Sergei Kiriyenko.
Bremmer received his PhD in political science from Stanford University in 1994. He went on to 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. He lives in New York.
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