NADER MOUSAVIZADEH
Macro Advisor and Global Thinker
A highly regarded global thinker, Nader Mousavizadeh advises some of the world’s leading corporations, investors, and decision-makers in government, delivering actionable macro strategies and solutions. He is Co-founder and Co-CEO of Macro Advisory Partners. His sage insights into geopolitical and macroeconomic issues and trends can be seen regularly in The Financial Times, The New York Times, and Reuters.
With a unique mix of senior roles in diplomacy, investment banking, and advisory, Mousavizadeh combines rich personal anecdotes with deep analytical judgments about how organizations can navigate the risks and opportunities at the nexus of markets, politics, and policy in the global economy.
Before serving as CEO of global analysis and advisory firm Oxford Analytica, he was Founder and Managing Director of Archipelago Partners, advising corporations and governments in emerging markets. As an investment banker at Goldman Sachs, he worked in the Financial Industries M&A group in New York and in Europe.
Mousavizadeh served as Special Assistant to United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan and a UN Political Officer in Bosnia-Herzegovina. He co-wrote Annan's memoir, Interventions: A Life in War and Peace, a Washington Post 2012 Notable Work of Nonfiction.
Elected a "Global Leader for Tomorrow" by the World Economic Forum, Mousavizadeh is a member of the Forum’s Geopolitical Risk Council. He is a widely published contributor on global affairs to The Times of London, BBC, and Foreign Policy. A former associate editor for The New Republic, he edited the magazine's coverage of the war in the former Yugoslavia into The Black Book of Bosnia. Barron's featured him in a wide-ranging interview about global risks.
A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College and a Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford, where he received his MA in international relations, Mousavizadeh received his MBA as a Sloan Fellow at MIT.
In his Reuters column, Mousavizadeh analyzes geopolitical and economic developments in what he refers to as an “archipelago world.” As he presciently explained back in 2011, “A deeper – and more radical – shift is at work in the politics of the global economy. A fragmentation of power, capital and ideas is creating a new map of the world with lasting implications for investors and policymakers alike.”