Ian Bremmer

Ian Bremmer, the political scientist and global affairs analyst who founded Eurasia Group, takes the stage at the Terrace Theater at the Long Beach Convention & Entertainment Center on Tuesday, November 17, 2026, presented by the Distinguished Speaker Series. The Distinguished Speaker Series brings world leaders, authors, and cultural figures to the Terrace Theater each season for relaxed evenings of conversation, with past guests including Malala Yousafzai, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and the Dalai Lama.

ABOUT IAN BREMMER Ian Bremmer is one of the world’s most influential geopolitical strategists — a political scientist who has transformed how leaders understand political risk in an era of mounting instability. As founder and president of Eurasia Group, the leading geopolitical risk advisory firm, and GZERO Media, a digital media company providing intelligent and engaging news coverage of international affairs, he advises global CEOs, investors, and policymakers navigating a world he describes as the “New Abnormal.”Bremmer pioneered Wall Street’s first Global Political Risk Index (GPRI) and helped establish political risk as an essential discipline for markets.

His term “G-Zero” — now widely used by policymakers and thought leaders — defines a global power vacuum in which no country or coalition is both willing and able to sustainably set the international agenda. In this leaderless environment, volatility is no longer episodic — it is structural.From financial crises and global recession to pandemic shockwaves, war in Europe, supply chain disruption, and an intensifying U.S.–China rivalry, Bremmer argues that we have entered a period of sustained geopolitical turbulence.

In a G-Zero world, the questions are no longer simply about growth — but about stability, security, climate resilience, food and water access, and the future of democratic institutions themselves.A prolific and widely respected voice on global affairs, Bremmer is the author of eleven books, including the New York Times bestsellers Us vs. Them; The Failure of Globalism and The Power of Crisis: How Three Threats—and Our Response—Will Change the World, which explore the rise of populism and the transformative forces reshaping the global order.

He serves as rapporteur for the United Nations High-Level Advisory Body on Artificial Intelligence, is a foreign affairs columnist and editor-at-large for Time magazine, and hosts GZERO World, a nationally broadcast public television program on international affairs.A Stanford-trained political scientist and the youngest-ever national fellow at the Hoover Institution, Bremmer founded Eurasia Group with just $25,000 in 1998 — building it into the world’s leading geopolitical risk advisory firm, with offices across three continents and a network spanning 90 countries.In this timely keynote, Bremmer delivers a candid assessment of who stands to win — and who risks losing — as global alliances shift, economic nationalism rises, and technological competition accelerates. With precision, wit, and uncommon clarity, he cuts through noise and ideology to explain what the next era of global leadership will demand — and how businesses, governments, and citizens must adapt to succeed in a more volatile, multipolar world.

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