With spring rapidly approaching, many municipalities, homeowners and business dwellers alike will be preparing for potentially dangerous weather from convective storms. With a record hard property mar...
Jeff Schmidt
Associate in Reinsurance and Certified Specialist in Catastrophe Risk for Guy Carpenter
Sydney Hedberg
Director at Marsh McLennan
March 8 was International Women’s Day, which prompted people to “imagine a gender-equal world. A world free of bias, stereotypes, and discrimination.” The initiative, as part of its mission, articulat...
Kate Bravery
Global Advisory Solutions & Insights Leader at Mercer
Sian Beilock
President of Barnard College, Columbia University, and President-Elect of Dartmouth
Following the end of World War II, Japan adopted a rather low-key approach to national security and defense. Under a constitution written by the postwar American occupiers, Japan forever renounced “wa...
John West
Executive Director of the Asian Century Institute
ChatGPT burst onto the technology world, gaining 100 million users by the end of January 2023, just two months after its launch and bringing with it a looming sense of change.
The technology itself is...
Daniel Merino
Associate Science Editor & Co-Host of The Conversation Weekly Podcast, The Conversation
Nehal El-Hadi
Science + Technology Editor & Co-Host of The Conversation Weekly Podcast, The Conversation
In its energy war with Russia, Europe has defied expectations. One year after the start of the conflict in Ukraine, instead of finding itself at the mercy of Russia, the European Union has managed to ...
In 2022, there were already too few commercial airline pilots in North America, leading to cutbacks in service to less popular and more rural destinations and a contraction of regional jet operations ...
Derek Costanza
Partner, Aviation and Aerospace Practice at Oliver Wyman
Geoff Murray
Partner, Aviation and Aerospace Practice at Oliver Wyman
Daniel Rye
Partner, Aviation and Aerospace Practice at Oliver Wyman
The Bitcoin community is in turmoil. Ordinal NFTs — also referred to as “Digital Artifacts” and “Ordinal inscriptions” — surfaced on January 21, 2023, on the Bitcoin network. Bitcoin maximalists are f...
Jaymin Kim
Director of Commercial Strategy at Marsh McLennan
The economic slowdown that has affected countries around the world as they were recovering from the impact of COVID-19 has threatened the tremendous growth experienced by the tech industry over recent...
Tom Quigley
Technology Industry Practice Leader, U.S. at Marsh
Larry Liu
Communications, Media, & Technology Industry Leader at Marsh Asia
India inherited the Group of Twenty (G-20) presidency from Indonesia on December 1, 2022 and will convene the 18th G-20 summit on September 9–10, 2023, in New Delhi. Coincidentally, India also assumes...
Venkatachalam Anbumozhi
Director, Research Strategy and Innovations at Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia
Open source intelligence (OSINT) is a fancy term for the gathering and analysis of publicly available data from unlimited and all-encompassing sources. This powerful, new tool is reshaping the frontli...
An Altamar podcast with
Arthur Bradley
Open Source Intelligence Manager at Tech Against Terrorism
Work can be hard, but it shouldn’t be hard all the time. New research co-authored by Wharton’s Maurice Schweitzer shows that overloading workers with too many difficult tasks in a row makes them more ...
Angie Basiouny
Writer and Editor at Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
Around 8% of the U.K.’s population is at risk of flooding. In many areas structural flood defences protect households and businesses from flooding but only up to a certain threshold. If the flood is b...
Viktor Roezer
Research Fellow at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economics
Net-zero targets are driving companies’ efforts to reduce their carbon emissions by increasing circularity within their supply chains, especially as many of their emissions are Scope Three, which are ...
A conversation with
Martijn Lopes Cardozo
CEO of Circle Economy
Bankruptcies, fraud allegations, perp walks, trillions of dollars in lost value: The past year has been terrible for cryptoasset markets. But it doesn’t mean the end of digital asset innovation....
In late 2021, when China’s real estate sector had already stagnated for months, the government dealt another serious blow to the sector, imposing restrictions on both developers’ and homebuyers’ finan...
Sarah Y. Tong
Senior Research Fellow at the National University of Singapore
Zhou Na
Research fellow at the East Asian Institute at the National University of Singapore
Li Yao
Research Fellow at the National University of Singapore
Based on the research of Yong-Chin Tan, Sandeep R. Chandukala, and Srinivas K. Reddy .
Buying new products online that you haven’t used, or even seen, in real life can feel risky. You’re left guessi...
Kellogg Insight
Kellogg Insight from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University
On February 25, Nigerians are scheduled to vote in a general election. It is difficult to fully appreciate the importance of these elections. The country’s potential for economic and political growth ...
Offshore wind farms play a major role in the quest to increase the world’s use of renewables and reduce its carbon footprint. While these facilities have had a prominent presence in Europe (the U.K. a...
Tony Gallagher
Regional CEO, Asia Pacific at Guy Carpenter
2022 will go down in history as unpredictable and unprecedented. It started with a lot of optimism, then geopolitical unrest began, inflation took off, markets sold off and the era of cheap money effe...
Rupert Watson
Head of Asset Allocation, International Ex-Pacific at Mercer
Rachel Volynsky
Chief Investment Officer at Mercer
Cameron Systermans
Head of Asset Allocation (Asia), Portfolio Manager at Mercer
On Tuesday (February 21), the U.S. Supreme court will hear arguments in a case that could have enormous ramifications for the internet. Under consideration is the so-called Section 230, which has prot...
A conversation with
Mark MacCarthy
Adjunct professor at Georgetown University’s Communication, Culture, and Technology Program
Over the past few years, boards have become far more sensitized to the potential for workforces to both generate incredible value or pose incredible risk depending on how they’re managed. Workforces r...
Companies are paying closer attention to biodiversity, and after decades of inaction, international agreements and regulations are slowly falling into place, culminating in COP15 — the U.N.’s Biodiver...
An Altamar podcast with
Collin O’Mara
President and CEO of the National Wildlife Federation
This story originally published on Jun 22, 2022.
Flooding is the most pervasive among natural disasters. According to the Zurich Flood Resilience Alliance, floods affect more people globally than any ...
An interview with
Swenja Surminski
Managing Director, Climate and Sustainability at Marsh McLennan Advantage
Last week, Microsoft announced it was adding ChatGPT to its search engine. ChaptGPT has grabbed a lot of the headlines recently, but in many ways, other AI is likely to have a more profound impact for...
In disasters like the 7.8 magnitude earthquake and 7.5-magnitude aftershock that struck Syria and Turkey on February 6, 2023, international cooperation on satellite imaging plays a crucial role in the...
Emilie Bronner
Représentante CNES at the Secrétariat Exécutif de la Charte Internationale Espace et Catastrophes Majeures
Big tech layoffs, Meta Platforms Inc’s volatile valuations, and conflicting data on daily active users on Decentraland and The Sandbox have led many to ask, “is the Metaverse dying?”
This question ref...
Jaymin Kim
Director of Commercial Strategy at Marsh McLennan
Last month, the Chinese New Year celebration brought special joy to families who met in person for the first time in three years. When the zero-COVID policy ended abruptly in December 2022, the Chines...
Xianbin Yao
Professorial Lecturer of International Studies at De LaSalle University Manila
Global commercial insurance prices increased 4%, on average, in the fourth quarter of 2022, a decline from 6% in the third quarter. It was the twenty-first consecutive quarter of rising average pricin...
Lucy Clarke
President of Marsh Specialty and Global Placement
Leadership in the current environment is very challenging. Remote working, mental health, gender fluidity, and Gen Z workers all demand new skills of senior executives.
Floyd Woodrow was a senior off...
Floyd Woodrow
Chairman of Quantum Group and Founder of Compass for Life
“Unprecedented times” is a phrase we’ve tired of hearing. But the fact remains that we continue to experience extraordinary situations at home and abroad. How effectively you communicate to your emplo...
Deena Harvanek
Change and Communication Solutions Leader, Partner at Mercer
If there was any doubt that Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s third term as president of Brazil would look very different from his first two, there are few doubts left after the bizarre events of January 8t...
Juan Cortiñas
Founder and Managing Partner at Opportunitas Advisors
Peter Schechter
Host of Altamar Global Issues Podcast and BRINK columnist
Europe hasn’t witnessed a conflict like this since World War II. Now, an even more ambitious reconstruction effort may be required.
Russia’s devastating attacks have stirred calls to muster a Marshall...
John Letzing
Digital Editor of Strategic Intelligence at World Economic Forum
Generation Z is a force to be reckoned with. Born between 1997 and 2012, Gen Z now accounts for 25% of the global population and is expected to be the world’s highest-spending cohort in the next decad...
Before long, 50% of the carbon in the world’s buildings will come from embodied concrete. So finding a way to greatly reduce the carbon intensity of concrete-making is essential.
The construction ind...
A conversation with
Radhika Lalit
Principal for RMI’s Climate Aligned Industries program
Ben Skinner
Senior Associate for RMI's Climate Aligned Industries program
The tax breaks and subsidies for green investments contained in the U.S. Inflation Reduction Act have thrown the European Union into a state of confusion and alarm. The $369 billion program of green s...
This year’s Global Risks Report has highlighted the likely increase of polycrises as interacting risk events compound each other. This requires business leaders and policymakers to refocus their resil...
A podcast with
Richard Smith-Bingham
Executive Director of Insights, Marsh McLennan Advantage
Amy Barnes
Head of Climate and Sustainability Strategy at Marsh
Sam Glick
Partner, Health & Life Sciences Practice at Oliver Wyman
Ravin Jesuthasan
Global Leader of Transformation Services at Mercer
This is part one; read part two here.
The global need for mental health care remains a challenge worldwide. The prevalence of mental disorders is rising globally and places a burden on society that n...
Alison Byrne
UK Workplace Health Consulting Team Leader at Mercer Marsh Benefits
Ariel Almazan
Wellness, Health & Claims Director, Workforce Health, Mexico & LAC at Mercer Marsh Benefits
On January 8, an extremist mob took over Brazil’s presidential palace, Congress and Supreme Court buildings following President Inácio Lula da Silva’s inauguration. Altamar podcast hosts Peter Schecht...
An Altamar podcast with
Ricardo Sennes
Managing Partner of Prospectiva
The recent World Bank Tech Savvy report highlights the need for a whole-of-government approach to digital transformation. The lessons we have learned so far from implementing digital public sector pro...
Tiago Carneiro Peixoto
Senior Public Sector Specialist at World Bank
Kai Kaiser
Senior Economist at World Bank
Olivia Rakotomalala
Public Sector and Governance Consultant at World Bank
Because supply chain emissions often dominate corporate carbon footprints, procurement is central to delivering on a company’s environmental, social and governance (ESG) agenda and ultimately on corpo...
Xavier Nouguès
Partner, Global Head of Value Sourcing at Oliver Wyman
At the start of last year, trendlines in the Middle East pointed to a cautiously optimistic trajectory. Regional states were engaged in a process of de-escalation after a period of heightened tension,...
Karim Haggag
Professor at The American University in Cairo
2022 was one of the most significant years in the global energy sector since the 1973 OPEC crisis, with the conflict in Ukraine, the climate transition, the upending of the oil and gas markets, and th...
David L. Goldwyn
President of Goldwyn Global Strategies
Given the current economic environment, inflationary pressures, and a tough labor market, people risk, perhaps previously a matter solely dealt with by HR, has garnered attention from organizational r...
Chris Lay
Chief Executive Officer for Marsh UK & Ireland
Nick McClelland
UK Chief Growth Officer for Mercer
It’s said that the chief technology officer is responsible for the survival of any company, especially in a three- to four-year time horizon, because of the innovation they deliver in next-generation ...
An interview with
Steve Blank
Entrepreneur and Inventor of the Lean Startup Concept
The shift away from a carbon-based economy risks stranding a large number of assets, particularly in sectors with high financial market exposure, such as oil and gas.
The nonprofit financial think ta...
Mark Campanale
Founder and Executive Chair of The Carbon Tracker Initiative
Unhappiness has been steadily climbing for a decade, and its rise has been in the blind spot of almost every world leader. The editors of Unravel spoke with Jon Clifton, CEO of global analytics and ad...
An interview with
Jon Clifton
Chief Executive Officer at Gallup
An expanding list of e-commerce sellers, big-box stores, high-volume delivery services and a host of other businesses have been making pledges to convert their North American truck fleets to electric ...
Curt Underwood
Partner, Energy and Natural Resources Practices at Oliver Wyman
Daniel Ludwin
Principal, North American Utilities Practice at Oliver Wyman
Harsha Mishra
Engagement Manager at Oliver Wyman
The shift away from a carbon-based economy risks stranding a large number of assets, particularly in sectors with high financial market exposure, such as oil and gas.
The nonprofit financial think ta...
A conversation with
Mark Campanale
Founder and Executive Chair of The Carbon Tracker Initiative
The pandemic didn’t invent workforce issues related to accelerated digitalization, flexible working, reskilling, and upskilling or diversity, equity, and inclusion, but it certainly exacerbated and ha...
Ravin Jesuthasan
Global Leader of Transformation Services at Mercer
People from Generation Z are entering the workforce with a sense of confidence, direction and empowerment that belies their age. This poses challenges for employers trying to recruit and retain them u...
Ana Kreacic
Partner and Chief Knowledge Officer at Oliver Wyman
John Romeo
Managing Partner and Head of Oliver Wyman Forum, Oliver Wyman
Lucia Uribe
Partner at Oliver Wyman
In November, global leaders converged in Egypt for the 27th Conference of the Parties of the U.N. Convention on Climate Change (COP27). Many dubbed this the “implementation COP” because after years of...
Sheila Bonini
Senior Vice President of Private Sector Engagement of World Wildlife Fund
Over the past 12 months, Asia has been buffeted by overlapping international crises, including the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
But there is a good case for cautious optimism ab...
Bart Édes
Distinguished Fellow at Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada
Sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) — a biofuel similar in chemistry to conventional jet fuel but with significantly fewer carbon emissions — is probably the most important, and definitely the most immedi...
Robbie Bourke
Partner at Oliver Wyman
David Kaplan
Principal at Oliver Wyman
All around the world, inflation is having an impact. The rise in costs of oil, food and almost everything else — combined with lingering supply chain disruptions, geopolitical tensions, floods and oth...
Martine Ferland
President and CEO of Mercer
Kate Bravery
Global Advisory Solutions & Insights Leader at Mercer
The big issues of our time transcend borders, nationalities and oceans. This past year, power has become more diffuse, many leading Western countries are paralyzed by crisis and polarization, and new ...
A conversation with
Tom Friedman
Author, Reporter and Columnist for The New York Times
In October, BRINK reported on the start of a large trial involving multiple companies in the U.K. that had agreed to trial a four-day working week.
In the meantime, a smaller trial has just ended in ...
Joe O’Connor
Director of Center of Excellence in Work Time Reduction
The effects of Hurricane Ian will be felt for years to come. The devastation has left Fort Myers and surrounding areas unrecognizable. It is hard to deny that the frequency and severity of not only hu...
The key space developments in 2023 with grand strategic implications revolve around space resource utilization missions, space-based solar power (SBSP), space launch systems, asteroid exploration, spa...
The past year might unfortunately be remembered as the year that Russia invaded Ukraine — or for some even stranger events such as the Oscar slap, Musk’s Twitter chaos, or Taylor Swift ticket mayhem. ...
As the volatility, velocity and magnitude of global risks increase, many organizations are caught unprepared for the cascading impacts of developing polycrises — multiple events occurring close togeth...
Carolina Klint
Risk Management Leader, Continental Europe at Marsh
By many measures, Tim Cook is having a great year. Apple, which he runs as CEO, is the most-profitable company in the Fortune 500 and also was ranked by the magazine as the most admired company in the...
A number of large cities around the world are piloting the idea of chief heat officers to respond to the threat of extreme heat caused by climate change. According to research by the Adrienne Arsht-Ro...
Surella Segu
Chief Heat Officer for Monterrey City, Mexico
Electrifying the transport sector will be critical to supporting national emissions reductions targets. The transport sector relies on fossil fuels more than any other industry: In 2021 it accounted f...
Blair Chalmers
Managing Director of Marsh McLennan Advantage
Iman Reda
Research Analyst of Marsh McLennan Advantage
In November and December, China’s State Council announcements reducing COVID restrictions and enhancing targeted pandemic prevention and control marked the beginning of the end of China’s three-...
Sarah Y. Tong
Senior Research Fellow at the National University of Singapore
Predicting the outcome of national elections can be a mug’s game. Polls are often wrong and second-guessing how people will vote months down the line can leave even the most savvy election specialist ...
The Conversation
Nonprofit, independent news organization
Adios, 2022! Aren’t we glad Latin America’s painful year is ending? 2022 was a year of electoral surprise, political instability, economic uncertainty and democratic-erosion throughout Latin America. ...
Peter Schechter
Host of Altamar Global Issues Podcast and BRINK columnist
Juan Cortiñas
Founder and Managing Partner at Opportunitas Advisors
The work from home revolution is having a profound effect on office space in cities around the world. In some places, as much as 50% of the office space is lying vacant. Some empty offices can be conv...
An interview with
Tracy Hadden Loh
Fellow at Brookings Institution
Working remotely is a way for companies to attract and motivate talent and more generally to offer a new lifestyle contract to employees. The initial vague concept of working from anywhere is now givi...
Olivier Meier
Principal in Mercer's Mobility Practice
Anne Rossier-Renaud
Senior Consultant at Mercer
Yesterday, we asked a cross-section of our experts to name — in a couple of sentences — what had been the most significant development in their areas of expertise over the last year. Today, in the sec...
With the current U.S. inflation rate at 7.1%, interest rates rising and housing costs up, many Americans are wondering if a recession is looming.
Two economists discussed that and more in a recent wid...
An interview with
D. Brian Blank
Assistant Professor of Finance at Mississippi State University
Rodney Ramcharan
Professor of Finance and Business Economics at the University of Southern California
To round out this year, we asked a cross-section of BRINK contributors to name — in a couple of sentences — what had been the most significant development in their areas of expertise over the last yea...
Economies have overheated and have begun slowing down, with some potentially in recession already. Are we there yet? Will monetary tightening lead to a deep recession?
In this episode of the Critical ...
Samantha Davidson
US OCIO Leader at Mercer
Rupert Watson
Head of Asset Allocation, International Ex-Pacific at Mercer
Anthony Brown
Director of Capital Markets, US at Mercer
When most people think about retirement, their first inclination is to focus on financial readiness. But as many learn as they enter retirement, building a post-career life is more than a simple calcu...
An interview with
Joe Casey
Author of 'Win the Retirement Game'
What a year to run a business! An unprovoked war triggers a global energy crisis, the worst inflation in decades threatens to derail the global economy and geopolitical forces push even harder for a r...
In the aviation world, 2022 was projected to be a year of recovery. But that was before a series of exogenous shocks that exacerbated already malfunctioning global supply chains and prompted the indus...
Sam Sargent
Principal, Transportation and Services Practice at Oliver Wyman
Carlo Franzoni
Technical Specialist at Oliver Wyman
Livia Hayes
Director at Oliver Wyman
One of the most difficult years in recent European history draws to a close, leaving a legacy of unresolved geopolitical and geo-economic challenges. Barring a black swan event that could completely u...
Gift-givers hoping to splurge this holiday season despite the pinch of high inflation have an easy option: buy now, pay later.
An ever-growing number of financial companies and apps are offering consu...
Jay Zagorsky
Clinical Associate Professor at Boston University
As the first soccer World Championship to be held in the Middle East, the Qatar World Cup was both historic and controversial. And the political controversies have been on full display — from LGBTQ ri...
Nick Sprague
Sports and technology entrepreneur Orreco
As we know, we’re coming out of the first ever global pandemic. The sports, entertainment and media industry was hit especially hard, but they’re back. Events are taking place — Qatar rece...
Warren H. Harper
Managing Director, Global Sports & Events Practice Leader at Marsh
Richard Tolley
Deputy Leader, Global Sports and Events Practice at Marsh
John Copenhaver
Chief Executive Officer of the Contingency Management Group
Edel Ryan
Head of Strategic Business Development, Sports, Entertainment, and Media Practice at Marsh
Businesses have been facing shocks on multiple fronts these days, from COVID-19 and inflation to the conflict in Ukraine and other escalating geopolitical tensions. COVID and the Russian invasion of U...
Tushar Narsana
Partner at Oliver Wyman
Apurva Nair
Partner at Oliver Wyman
Anne Valtink
Engagement Manager at Oliver Wyman
During the pandemic, depressed passenger volumes severely eroded the profit margins of most European train operators. But the energy transition will help European railways to grow, according to new re...
Gonzalo Cantabrana Fernández
Sector Lead for Infrastructure and Project Finance at S&P Global Ratings
Although men and women apply in roughly even numbers to become lawyers, far fewer women end up as partners in law firms. In the U.S., there are five times as many male partners as female partners, and...
An interview with
Elaine Spector
Partner at Harrity & Harrity, LLP
We need nearly two planet Earths to sustain our consumption of natural resources as human beings: Our use of ecological resources and services is about 75% higher than our planet’s capacity to regener...
A podcast with
Gunes Ergun
Engagement Manager for Marsh Climate & Sustainability Strategy
Sarika Goel
Global Head of Sustainable Investment Research at Mercer
Cornelia Neumann
Partner for Finance and Risk at Oliver Wyman
Simon Dikau
Research Fellow at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at London School of Economics
For many years, raising the minimum wage has been a hot-button topic debated vigorously by politicians, business owners, and economists, with strong disagreement over how an increased wage would affec...
Sachin Waikar
Writer for the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University
The famous Build Back Better slogan, a staple of the Biden presidential campaign (coming as it did against turmoil wrought by COVID), serves to underscore how fundamental the incumbent president sees...
Lawrence Slade
CEO of the Global Infrastructure Investor Association
The ability to change minds and persuade people of the need to do something is essential for doing business. Yet, when it comes to the mechanics of persuasion, a lot of people find it difficult to do....
Jonah Berger
Marketing Professor at Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Opportunities for flexible working are an attractive part of any employment offer and, since the pandemic, have become far more common. In fact, remote and flexible work has become the norm for many c...
Haig R. Nalbantian
Senior Partner, Co-Leader of Mercer’s Workforce Sciences Institute
Investment in clean energy technology is now outpacing fossil fuels. According to the IEA, clean energy will be 60% of total investment in energy in 2022. New research from the Rocky Mountain Institut...
An interview with
Kingsmill Bond
Energy Strategist for Rocky Mountain Institute
Employees have been bruised by the events of the last two years, and many are feeling a form of despair, anxiety and a lost sense of belonging. While the road ahead still appears rocky, employers can ...
A podcast with
Wolfgang Seidl
Partner at Mercer
Kate Bravery
Global Advisory Solutions & Insights Leader at Mercer
The fintech sector in Africa is the only VC market posting double-digit growth this year — at a time when the rest of the global VC market has been slowing down.
According to Ashlin Perumall, partner...
An interview with
Ashlin Perumall
Partner at Baker McKenzie, Johannesburg
The implications of COP27 will likely be felt for decades to come, for better or worse. While a broad range of analysis has already been published on the ultimate outcomes of COP27, this summary inclu...
Lucy Almond
Chair of the Nature4Climate Coalition at World Economic Forum
Israel just completed its fifth election in four years. This time, former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has come back with a new, hard-right, extremist coalition. How will that translate into dome...
An Altamar podcast with
Gil Tamary
Chief International Editor and Commentator for Israel’s Channel 13 News
Large numbers of companies, big and small, are now electronically monitoring their employees. The trend of workplace surveillance accelerated considerably during the pandemic due to remote working.
I...
Chase Thiel
Bill Daniels Chair of Business Ethics and Associate Professor, Management & Marketing Department at The University of Wyoming
On Friday, November 11th, cryptocurrency exchange FTX Trading Limited (“FTX”) and its sister cryptocurrency trading firm Alameda Research (“Alameda”) filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Just a week earli...
Jaymin Kim
Director of Commercial Strategy at Marsh McLennan
Very little attention is paid to food in the conversation around net zero. But food production accounts for one-third of our global carbon emissions, so changing our eating habits is critical.
The LE...
An interview with
Susan Jebb
Professor of Diet and Population Health at University of Oxford
Three years on from Black Lives Matter and MeToo, the idea of true equity is still far off in most workplace settings. Tina Opie, associate professor of Management at Babson College, has written a boo...
An interview with
Tina Opie
Associate Professor of Management at Babson College
The labor shortage may be ending in many industries. For evidence, look at Uber, which attracted a record 5 million drivers in 2022. But there is one category where the problem remains stubbornly unso...
David Mayer
Senior Partner at Lippincott
Anna Lukosus
Actuarial Consulting for Oliver Wyman
David Kopsch
Senior Principal Consultant for Mercer Career
The climate crisis is a defining challenge for Asia and the Pacific, which as a region is the most vulnerable to global warming, and a significant contributor to its cause.
Yet, it is not all doom and...
Arup Kumar Chatterjee
Principal Financial Sector Specialist, Sustainable Development and Climate Change Department at Asian Development Bank
In a time when ESG is coming under increased scrutiny for ethics-washing, the bar is getting higher and higher for leaders and CEOs to operate in a truly sustainable way. Clarke Murphy recently steppe...
An interview with
Clarke Murphy
former CEO of Russell Reynolds Associates
The architects of the financial system overhaul known as Dodd-Frank suffered numerous slings and arrows while crafting their historic legislation. The final rules put in place in 2010 to stabilize the...
Til Schuermann
Partner and Co-Head of Oliver Wyman’s Risk & Public Policy Practice
With spring rapidly approaching, many municipalities, homeowners and business dwellers alike will be preparing for potentially dangerous weather from convective storms. With a record hard property mar...
Jeff Schmidt
Associate in Reinsurance and Certified Specialist in Catastrophe Risk for Guy Carpenter
Sydney Hedberg
Director at Marsh McLennan
Even before ChatGPT burst onto the scene and into the collective conversation, artificial intelligence has been ubiquitous for anyone connected to the internet. A recent survey from Pew shows how peop...
March 8 was International Women’s Day, which prompted people to “imagine a gender-equal world. A world free of bias, stereotypes, and discrimination.” The initiative, as part of its mission, articulat...
Kate Bravery
Global Advisory Solutions & Insights Leader at Mercer
Sian Beilock
President of Barnard College, Columbia University, and President-Elect of Dartmouth
Following the end of World War II, Japan adopted a rather low-key approach to national security and defense. Under a constitution written by the postwar American occupiers, Japan forever renounced “wa...
John West
Executive Director of the Asian Century Institute
ChatGPT burst onto the technology world, gaining 100 million users by the end of January 2023, just two months after its launch and bringing with it a looming sense of change.
The technology itself is...
Daniel Merino
Associate Science Editor & Co-Host of The Conversation Weekly Podcast, The Conversation
Nehal El-Hadi
Science + Technology Editor & Co-Host of The Conversation Weekly Podcast, The Conversation