Who founded Eurasia Group in 1998?
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Eurasia Group Eurasia Group is the world's largest political risk consultancy. Founded in 1998 by Ian Bremmer, it has offices in New York City, Washington, D.C., London, Tokyo, São Paulo, San Francisco, and Singapore with more than 150 full-time employees. The company also employs a network of 500 experts in 90 countries in Asia, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East and Africa — a profile "The Economist" magazine calls "an inspiration for any academic with a seemingly useless degree in political science". Eurasia Group is known for its selectivity in hiring, with the majority of analysts holding graduate degrees from top international relations and political science programs.
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Ian Bremmer Ian Bremmer (born November 12, 1969) is an American political scientist specializing in U.S. foreign policy, states in transition, and global political risk. He is the president and founder of Eurasia Group, a political risk research and consulting firm with offices in New York City, Washington, London, Tokyo, São Paulo, San Francisco, and Singapore. As of December 2014, he is foreign affairs columnist and editor-at-large at "Time". In 2013, he was named Global Research Professor at New York University. Eurasia Group provides analysis and expertise about how political developments and national security dynamics move markets and shape investment environments across the globe.
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Al Ghurair Group Al Ghurair Group (Arabic: مجموعة سيف الغرير) (also known as Saif Al Ghurair Group) is a Dubai, United Arab Emirates-based business group founded by the Al Ghurair family. A diverse conglomerate, it has operations in the Middle East, North Africa, Europe and North America. The grandsons of Al Ghurair Group founder Ahmad Al Ghurair run the group. Abdul Rahman Saif Al Ghurair serves as group chairman and Majid Saif Al Ghurair is the group's chief executive officer.
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Union for Europe The Group Union for Europe (UFE) was a conservative political group with seats in the European Parliament between 1995 and 1999. The group was formed during the 4th European Parliament term in July 1995 from a merger of the European Democratic Alliance and Forza Europa parliamentary groups, becoming the third largest group by number of MEPs. The group was succeeded in the 5th European Parliament by the Union for Europe of the Nations (UEN), while
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Filaret Galchev Filaret Galchev (Russian: Филарет Гальчев ; born 26 May 1963 in Tbilisi, Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic) is a Russian businessman of Pontic Greek origin (Filaretos Kaltsidis), chairman of Eurocement group.
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European Bank for Reconstruction and Development The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is an international financial institution founded in 1991. As a multilateral developmental investment bank, the EBRD uses investment as a tool to build market economies. Initially focused on the countries of the former Eastern Bloc it expanded to support development in more than 30 countries from central Europe to central Asia. Besides Europe, member countries of the EBRD are from five continents (North America, Africa, Asia and Australia, see below), with the biggest shareholder being the United States, so the name is somewhat of a misnomer. Headquartered in London, the EBRD is owned by 65 countries and two EU institutions. Despite its public sector shareholders, it invests mainly in private enterprises, together with commercial partners.
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Australia Group The Australia Group is an informal group of countries (now joined by the European Commission) established in 1985 (after the use of chemical weapons by Iraq in 1984) to help member countries to identify those exports which need to be controlled so as not to contribute to the spread of chemical and biological weapons.
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Ecologists in Action Ecologistas en Acción (Spanish: Ecologistas en Acción , sometimes Ecologistas en Acción-CODA) is a Spanish grassroots confederation of 300 ecological groups, founded on December the 9th, 1998.
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Commonwealth of Independent States The Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS; Russian: Содружество Независимых Государств, СНГ , "Sodruzhestvo Nezavisimykh Gosudarstv, SNG" ), also called the Russian Commonwealth (to distinguish it from the English-speaking Commonwealth of Nations ), is a loose confederation of 9 member states and 2 associate members that are located in Eurasia, formed during the dissolution of the Soviet Union, and which were all former Soviet Republics. Georgia withdrew its membership in 2008, while the Baltic states (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania), which regard their membership in the Soviet Union as an illegal occupation, chose not to participate.
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EUNIS EUNIS (European University Information Systems organisation) was created in the early 1990:s. Following an OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) study and seminar in 1993 on “Impact of Information Technology on Higher Education” a first meeting in Amsterdam – considering the value of a European organization – the actual founding meeting took place in Paris. It was attended by scholars from eight countries: Belgium (Bruno Paternostre), Denmark (Ole Carsten Pedersen), Finland (Kristel Sarlin, Pentti Korhonen), France (Yves Epelboin), Germany (Jan von Knop), Ireland (John Moriarty), the Netherlands (Chris Hendriks) and the United Kingdom (Mike Collin, John Heap, Robin McDonough).
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Ske Ske is an Icelandic band whose origins can be traced back to 1992, when a band called "Skárren ekkert" was founded by Eiríkur Þorleifsson, Frank Hall and Guðmundur Steingrímsson, and joined by Hrannar Ingimarsson in 1998.
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Chris Rokos Chris Rokos (Christopher Charles Rokos, born 21 September 1970) is a British hedge fund manager and philanthropist. He is the founder of macro hedge fund Rokos Capital Management and a former founding partner of Brevan Howard Asset Management.
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Susperia Susperia is a Norwegian black/thrash metal band formed in October 1998 by Tjodalv and Cyrus.
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United Surgical Partners International United Surgical Partners International (USPI) was founded in 1998, and is one of the prominent leaders in ambulatory care.
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Gazprom Armenia Gazprom Armenia (Armenian: Գազպրոմ Արմենիա ), formerly known as ArmRosGazprom (Armenian: ՀայՌուսգազարդ ; Russian: Армросгазпром ), is a subsidiary of the Russian Gazprom company in Armenia. It was founded in 1997 as a joint Russian-Armenian natural gas pipeline project. When it was founded, the Russian state gas monopolist Gazprom owned 45% of stock, the Energy Ministry of Armenia 45% and the ITERA company 10%. In 2014, Gazprom became the sole owner of the company and renamed it Gazprom Armenia. Director General of the company is Karen Karapetyan.
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European Federation of Animal Science The European Federation for Animal Science or EAAP (French: Fédération Européenne de Zootechnie ; German: Europäische Vereinigung für Tierproduktion ; Italian: Federazione Europea di Zootecnia [sic]) is an international non-governmental organisation which aims to improve the farming of domestic animals. Membership is open to scientists, animal breeders and administrators. The association was founded in Paris in 1949, and has its headquarters in Rome, Italy. It was formerly known as the European Association for Animal Production.
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Renova Group Renova Group is a Russian conglomerate with interests in aluminium, oil, energy, telecoms and a variety of other sectors. The main owner and president is Viktor Vekselberg who founded the company in 1990.
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Eugene Kaspersky Yevgeny Kaspersky (Russian: Евгений Валентинович Касперский) is a Russian cybersecurity expert and the CEO of Kaspersky Lab, an IT security company with 4,000 employees. He cofounded Kaspersky Lab in 1997 and helped identify instances of government-sponsored cyberwarfare as the head of research. He has been an advocate for an international treaty prohibiting cyberwarfare.
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Éditions Philippe Amaury Éditions Philippe Amaury (EPA), also known as Groupe EPA or the Amaury Group, is a French media group founded by Philippe Amaury, whose widow Marie-Odile Amaury owns a majority of the company.
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Agava Agava was founded in 1998 by Vladimir Panfilovich a graduate of Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. He founded a small organization which specialized in development of software.
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Planet Records Europe Planet Records, an independent label founded in 1998 by producer Roberto Ferrante, has had twelve records certified platinum in Europe, four gold and two silver. Its records have sold several million copies.
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David F. Gordon David F. Gordon is Head of Research at Eurasia Group, the political risk consultancy. He was previously the U.S. State Department's Director of Policy Planning, where he held a rank equivalent to a United States Assistant Secretary of State.