Ian Bremmer is President of Eurasia Group and Senior Fellow & Director of Eurasia Studies at the World Policy Institute. 

Dr. Bremmer received his PhD in political science from Stanford University and has held positions at the Harriman Institute, Hoover Institution, the EastWest Institute, and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.  An expert on US foreign policy and Eurasian states in transition, he has published widely on nation- and state-building, ethnic conflict, and international relations in the region. 

Dr. Bremmer’s recent publications include New States, New Politics: Building the Post Soviet Nations, and articles and essays in International Affairs, World Policy Journal, Journal of Democracy, The New Republic, The Los Angeles Times, The International Herald Tribune, and The New York Times. He is a regular commentator on CNN, CNBC and CBC Newsworld, and a columnist for The Financial Times. He lives in New York.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

President, Eurasia Group, January 1998 - present.

Co-Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Lehman-EurasiaGroup, October 2000 – present.

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

 Senior Fellow, Director of Eurasia Studies, World Policy Inst, New School University. November 1997 - present.

Visiting Professor, Globalisation & Intl Affairs Program, Bard College. beginning September 2001

Senior Research Fellow, EastWest Institute, August 1996 - August 1997.

Visiting Scholar, Harriman Institute, Columbia University, August 1996 - June 1997.

National Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University, September 1995 - August 1996.

President, Association for the Study of Nationalities (elected-unpaid post), November 1994 – November 1997

Research Fellow, Special Projects Program, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, University of California, Livermore, October 1994 - August 1996.

Visiting Research Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University, September 1994 - August 1995