Nader Mousavizadeh

Nader Mousavizadeh is a globally recognized adviser and writer on geopolitical and macroeconomic issues, with a distinguished career spanning senior global roles in diplomacy, investment banking and strategic advisory. An adviser and counselor to some of the world's leading investors, corporations, and organizations, he provides insights that enable clients to navigate successfully the risks and opportunities at the intersection of markets, politics, and policy in the global economy.

Mousavizadeh is co-founder and managing director of Macro Advisory Partners and former chief executive officer of Oxford Analytica, the global analysis and advisory firm. Prior to serving at Oxford Analytica from 2010-2013, he was founder and managing director of Archipelago Partners, providing strategic advice to corporations and governments in emerging markets. An investment banker at Goldman Sachs from 2004-2009, he worked in the Financial Industries M&A group in New York, and was latterly based in Europe with a number of global client relationships. Before entering the private sector, he served at the United Nations, as a political officer in Bosnia-Herzegovina, and in the office of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan from 1997-2003.

Elected a 2001 Global Leader for Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum, he writes a monthly column on global affairs for Reuters, and is a widely published contributor of essays and articles to The Financial Times, The New York Times, The Times of London, and Foreign Policy. He is the co-author, with Kofi Annan, of "Interventions: A Life in War and Peace," and the editor of the "Black Book of Bosnia."

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College and a Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford where he received his M.Phil. in International Relations from Christ Church College, Mr. Mousavizadeh received his MBA as a Sloan Fellow at the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He serves on the Board of Trustees of Farm Africa.