Ian Bremmer Net Worth, Income, Salary, Earnings, Biography

Ian Bremmer (born November 12, 1969) is a political scientist who focuses on US foreign policy, transitional nations, and global political risk. He is the founder and president of Eurasia Group, a political risk consulting and research company. He was appointed a “Global Research Professor” at New York University in 2013, a non-tenured teaching post. Eurasia Group offers insight and analysis into how political and national security dynamics influence markets and investment environments across the world. Bremmer’s ancestors are Armenian and German.

 Bremmer is most recognised for his work on political risk, for which he was dubbed the “rising guru” by the Economist, and for introducing political science as a subject to the financial markets. Bremmer developed Wall Street’s first global political risk index, the GPRI, in 2001. (Global Political Risk Index). In the area of political risk, Bremmer’s definition of an emerging market as “a nation where politics matters at least as much as economics to the market” is a common reference. Bremmer is the author of eight books, including the national bestsellers Every Nation for Itself: Winners and Losers in a G-Zero World (Portfolio, May 2012), which describes the global phenomenon of state capitalism and its ramifications, and The End of the Free Market: Who Wins the War Between States and Corporations (Portfolio, May 2010), which describes the global phenomenon of state capitalism and its ramifications. He’s also the author of The J Curve: A New Way to Understand Why Nations Rise and Fall (Simon & Schuster, 2006), which was named one of The Economist’s best books of 2006.

 Bremmer is a well-known media pundit and writer. He writes a regular piece for Reuters and contributes to the Financial Times A-List. He’s also written for the Washington Post, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, Foreign Affairs, and a variety of other publications. He appears on CNBC, CNN, Fox News Channel, Bloomberg Television, NPR, the BBC, and other networks on a regular basis. Bremmer is a member of the Near East Foundation’s Presidents Council and the Concordia Summit’s Leadership Council, among other things. 

He was designated a “Young Global Leader” by the World Economic Forum in 2007, and he established and served as Chair of the Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Geopolitical Risk in 2010. In 1994, Bremmer earned his B.A. from Tulane University, as well as his M.A. and PhD in political science from Stanford University. He subsequently joined the Hoover Institution’s faculty, where he became the institution’s youngest ever National Fellow at the age of 25. He has worked as a researcher and professor at New York University, Columbia University, the EastWest Institute, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and the World Policy Institute, where he has been a Senior Fellow since 1997.

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