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About
Willis Sparks is a thought leader on risks, opportunities, and trends created by current geopolitical conflicts and political developments in major emerging market countries, as well as on US politics and foreign policy. He works directly with Eurasia Group President Ian Bremmer on a variety of macro political risk projects. Willis has made speeches on market-moving trends in international politics for investor and corporate audiences on every continent except Antarctica.
Prior to joining Eurasia Group in 2005, Willis worked at the Council on Foreign Relations, where he wrote on transnational terrorism and US national security. Willis holds master’s degrees in international affairs from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, where he specialized in international security policy and the former Soviet Union, and from Sciences Po in Paris. He holds two bachelor’s degrees from Brown University and is a graduate of the Juilliard School. In addition, Willis once worked as a stuntman at New York’s Metropolitan Opera.
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Geopolitical Risk: Emerging Trends and Hot Spots
Video sample – https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=488579538431137
In this presentation, Willis Sparks outlines why global investors and business leaders must understand the national, regional, and global political trends that will create both the next wave of opportunities and new generation of risks that will define their operating environments for years to come. With vivid illustrations drawn from today’s headlines and tomorrow’s forecasts, Sparks details how and why politics and political interests will play an ever larger role in market outcomes around the world. Audiences will learn:
- The market-moving impact of politics in the world’s most dynamic developed and developing states
- Long-term geopolitical trends, including the rise of emerging market volatility
- Country-by-country analysis of current internal political dynamics
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