Eurasia Group is a global political risk consultancy, founded in 1998. Political risk is a type of Risk faced by Investors, Corporations, and Governments.
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| Type | Corporation |
| Founded | 1998 |
| Headquarters | Headquartered in New York City Offices in London, Washington, DC, and Tokyo |
| Key people | Alec Alenstein, COO Ian Bremmer, President John Green, Director, Research Preston Keat, Dir, Research Harry Harding, Counsellor |
| Industry | Consulting Professional Services |
| Products | Professional Services |
| Revenue | Not Disclosed (~$50-75m est) |
| Employees | 90 full-time/ 480 part-time |
| Website | www.eurasiagroup.net |
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Overview
Eurasia Group has offices in New York, Washington, London, and Tokyo; with about 90 full-time employees. A corporation is a separate legal entity usually used to conduct business Year 1998 ( MCMXCVIII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar) The City of New York London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom. Washington DC ( formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D officially, is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan and located on the eastern side of the main island Honshū. Ian Bremmer (born November 12, 1969) is an American Political scientist specializing on US foreign policy states in transition and global John Green may refer to John Green (author (b1977 American award-winning writer John Green (botanist (b Harry Harding (1946— is a leading China specialist in the United States. For other uses of this term see Industry (disambiguation An industry (from Latin industrius, "diligent industrious" Professional services are infrequent technical or unique functions performed by independent contractors or consultants whose occupation is the rendering of such services In Marketing, a product is anything that can be offered to a Market that might satisfy a want or need In business revenue or revenues is Income that a company receives from its normal business activities usually from the sale of goods and services Employment is a Contract between two parties, one being the employer and the other being the employee. A website (alternatively web site or Web site, a back-construction from the Proper noun World Wide Web) is a collection of Web pages The company also employs a network of 480 experts in 65 countries in Asia, Latin America, Europe & Eurasia, and Middle East & Africa--a profile The Economist magazine calls "an inspiration for any academic with a seemingly useless degree in political science. For the superstate in George Orwell 's novel see Nations of Nineteen Eighty-Four. The Middle East is a Subcontinent with no clear boundaries often used as a synonym to Near East, in opposition to Far East. The Economist is an English-language weekly news and International affairs publication owned by The Economist Newspaper Ltd and edited in London Political science is a branch of Social sciences that deals with the theory and practice of Politics and the description and analysis of Political systems "[1]
Eurasia Group is best known as a political risk advisory group, and is generally recognized to be the first to systematically bring political science as a discipline to Wall Street. Wall Street is a street in lower Manhattan, New York City, United States. [2] This approach includes the Citigroup Eurasia Group Global Political Risk Index (GPRI)--the first qualitative comparative political and economic risk index designed specifically to measure stability in emerging markets. Developed over a ten-year period by experts in transitional politics and economics, the methodology provides an "early warning" system which helps anticipate critical trends and provides a measure for country capacity to withstand political, economic, security, and social shocks. [3]
Eurasia Group services include analytical research publications and tailored consulting and advisory services, as well as direct access to Eurasia Group analysts, on political trends and their impact on business, financial markets and the foreign investment climate. Foreign direct investment ( FDI) in its classic definition is defined as a company from one country making a physical investment into building a factory in another country Eurasia Group's 300 clients include major investment banks, institutional investors, government agencies, and multinational corporations in numerous sectors.
Eurasia Group has a global strategic alliance with PricewaterhouseCoopers, launched in March 2006 to integrate political risk assessment into risk management capabilities for multinational corporations worldwide. PricewaterhouseCoopers (or PwC is one of the world's largest Professional services firms In 2006, Eurasia Group also began publication of the Global Risk Navigator (www.navigaterisk.com), a country-based political risk-assessment tool, together with The Harvard Business Review. Harvard Business Review is a general Management Magazine published since 1922 by Harvard Business School Publishing, owned by the Harvard
Acquisitions
In March 2005, Eurasia Group acquired the assets of Intellibridge, a Washington DC-based strategic advisory firm founded by former-National Security Advisor Anthony Lake and David Rothkopf. Intellibridge was a strategic analysis firm in Washington DC, founded by David Rothkopf in 1999 The Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, commonly referred to as the National Security Adviser (abbreviated NSA, or sometimes ANSA Anthony Lake (born April 2, 1939) is an American diplomat, political figure, and academic. David J Rothkopf (born 24 December, 1955) is a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, specializing in U [4] Terms of the acquisition were not made public, though Intellibridge had received some $28 million in venture capital since being founded in 1999.
References
- ^ Political-risk analysis | The new bull market | Economist.com
- ^ Countryrisk.com Reviews: Eurasia Group
- ^ Assessing the Predictive Powers of Country Risk Ratings and Governance Indicators
- ^ Eurasia Group establishes Washington, DC Office; Acquires Assets of Intellibridge Corporation. - Business Wire - HighBeam Research
External links
- Official website
- Economist profile of Eurasia Group
- Eurasia Group profile -- Diary of a Political Scientist on Slate
- Google News on Eurasia Group
- PWC-Eurasia Group study on multinational corporations and political risk
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