2025 Global Risk: What’s Next for the Global Landscape?

As we enter 2025, the world stands at a crossroads of uncertainty and opportunity. The geopolitical and economic uncertainties of 2024, combined with rapid advancements in technology and significant elections in the U.S. and Japan, have sparked new challenges and questions about the future. How can we better prepare for the challenges that will shape the global landscape? What implications does Trump’s return as U.S. president have on the nation and the world? In this program, Eurasia Group & GZERO Media President and Founder Ian Bremmer explores the key risks and trends defining 2025. From economic volatility and technological breakthroughs to geopolitical tensions, he offers his insights into the evolving risk landscape and shares strategies for successfully navigating the year ahead. Join us as we explore what’s in store for 2025 and beyond.

Speaker
Ian Bremmer, President & Founder, Eurasia Group and GZERO Media

Presider
Joshua W. Walker, Ph.D., President & CEO, Japan Society

Agenda
6:00 – 6:45pm: Lecture and Q&A
6:45 – 7:15pm: Reception 

Admission
This is a paid event with advance registration required. A designated number of tickets are available for free to our corporate members. (Corporate member code is required to register for the event. If you don’t know your corporate member code, please contact [email protected].) Please note that seating is limited and on a first come, first served basis.

About the Speaker

Ian Bremmer, President, Eurasia Group and GZERO Media
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 and engaging coverage of international affairs. Ian is an independent voice on critical issues around the globe, offering clearheaded insights through speeches, written commentary, and even satirical puppets (really!). A prolific writer, Ian is the author of eleven books, including the New York Times bestsellers, “Us vs Them: The Failure of Globalism” which examines the rise of populism across the world, and his latest book “The Power of Crisis: How Three Threats—and Our Response—Will Change the World” which covers a trio of looming global crises (health emergencies, climate change, and technological revolution) and outlines how these crises create global prosperity and opportunity. He serves as the foreign affairs columnist and editor at large for Time magazine, and is the host of GZERO World with Ian Bremmer, which airs weekly on US national public television. Ian is also a frequent guest on CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, and many others globally. Ian also teaches at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and previously was a professor at New York University. Find him on Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, and regularly tweeting from @IanBremmer.

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