Seth Mattison
Top 50 Keynote Speaker in the World | Founder & CEO, FutureSight Labs | Future of Work Strategist | Author, The War at Work & The Future of Leadership
Tina Fordham
Author, Mad World | Founder, Fordham Global Foresight | Wall Street's First Chief Global Political Analyst | Geopolitics & PQ Expert
Few strategists match Tina Fordham's ability to translate geopolitical complexity into boardroom clarity. Author of Mad World: A Geostrategy Survival Guide for Leaders and founder of Fordham Global Foresight, she draws on twenty-five years of experience — from pioneering political risk at Citi to advising the UN and Downing Street. Her keynotes equip leaders with frameworks to raise their Political Quotient and act decisively amid global disruption.
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Tina Fordham biography
Global affairs speaker Tina Fordham is one of the world’s foremost geopolitical strategists, the author of Mad World: A Geostrategy Survival Guide for Leaders, and the founder of Fordham Global Foresight, an independent advisory firm that helps C-suite leaders, institutional investors, and international organizations navigate global disruption. Her signature concepts — the Geopolitics Supercycle, PQ (Political Quotient), and Vox Populi Risk — have entered the business lexicon and are used by executives worldwide to stress-test strategy against political volatility.
Fordham made history as Wall Street’s first Chief Global Political Analyst during her seventeen-year tenure at Citigroup, where she pioneered the integration of political risk into financial decision-making. Before Citi, she built the financial markets research division at Eurasia Group, establishing herself as one of the most influential voices at the intersection of geopolitics and capital markets. In Mad World, she distills over twenty-five years of frontline experience into evidence-based frameworks and practical tools for leaders contending with compounding global uncertainty.
Advisor to Governments, the United Nations, and Global Institutions
Beyond the private sector, Fordham’s expertise has been called upon at the highest levels of government and international institutions. United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon appointed her to the first-ever High-Level Panel on Women’s Economic Empowerment, and she has served as a Senior Advisor in the U.K. Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit and to senior military leaders. She holds a Master of International Affairs from Columbia University’s SIPA and sits on the International Advisory Boards of both Columbia SIPA and Cambridge University’s Centre for Geopolitics.
A prolific commentator, Fordham appears regularly on Bloomberg, CNN, and CNBC, writes a leadership strategy column for Forbes, and hosts The Navigator, a geopolitical video series produced with the London Stock Exchange Group. She has been named five times to the FN100 list of Most Influential Women in European Finance.
As a speaker, Tina Fordham delivers sharp, evidence-based keynotes that transform how audiences think about geopolitical risk. She translates complex global developments into actionable strategic frameworks, helping senior leaders raise their Political Quotient and make better decisions under uncertainty. Her presentations consistently rank among the highest rated at global conferences, combining analytical rigor with wit and candor that resonates with board-level audiences.
Tina Fordham Speaking Videos
Tina Fordham - The New Geopolitical Risk Supercycle: What Boards and the C-Suite Need to Know Now
Tina Fordham - Geopolitical outlook
Tina Fordham Keynote Topics
Tina Fordham introduces her signature Political Quotient framework, showing executives how to read geopolitical signals, assess second-order risks, and integrate political analysis into strategic decision-making. Drawing on decades advising boards and institutional investors, she explains why the Geopolitics Supercycle demands a fundamentally new approach to leadership — and how to build it.
Based on her landmark book, Fordham presents the evidence-based frameworks and practical tools that help leaders navigate an era of compounding global disruption. From trade wars and conflict escalation to populism and technological upheaval, she equips audiences with a strategic playbook for making better decisions when certainty is in short supply.
Fordham maps how geopolitical shocks cascade through markets, supply chains, and boardrooms in ways that traditional risk models fail to capture. She provides actionable intelligence on the interconnected crises reshaping the global order — from great-power competition to energy security — and what forward-looking organizations should do now.
Drawing on her appointment to the United Nations' first High-Level Panel on Women's Economic Empowerment and her own trailblazing career, Fordham makes the strategic and economic case for gender equality. She explores how organizations that invest in women's leadership gain measurable competitive advantages in resilience, innovation, and long-term performance.
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FAQs on Booking Tina Fordham
Why Tina Fordham?
Booking Tina Fordham for your event means securing one of the world's most authoritative voices on geopolitical risk and its impact on business strategy. As the author of Mad World: A Geostrategy Survival Guide for Leaders and Wall Street's first Chief Global Political Analyst, Fordham brings unmatched credibility at the intersection of geopolitics and markets. Her signature frameworks — the Geopolitics Supercycle and PQ (Political Quotient) — have been adopted by C-suite leaders worldwide. Audiences consistently rate her keynotes among the best they've attended, praising her ability to translate global complexity into clear, actionable insights. Contact Aurum Speakers Bureau to book Tina Fordham for your next event.
What is the Geopolitics Supercycle?
The Geopolitics Supercycle is Tina Fordham's widely cited framework describing the current era of escalating and interconnected geopolitical risks — from great-power competition and armed conflict to populism, trade fragmentation, and energy insecurity. Fordham argues that the period of relative geopolitical calm that defined the post-Cold War era has ended, and that business leaders must fundamentally rethink how they assess and respond to political risk. The concept has been featured across Bloomberg, CNN, CNBC, and the Financial Times and is a central theme in her book Mad World.
What is Tina Fordham's book Mad World about?
Mad World: A Geostrategy Survival Guide for Leaders is Tina Fordham's book distilling over twenty-five years of advising senior business, government, and military leaders on navigating global change. Published by Whitefox, the book offers evidence-based frameworks and practical tools developed throughout her career as Wall Street's first Chief Global Political Analyst and founder of Fordham Global Foresight. It is designed for executives and board members who need to make strategic decisions amid unprecedented geopolitical uncertainty.
What topics does geopolitical speaker Tina Fordham cover?
Tina Fordham delivers keynotes on geopolitical risk and its business implications, the Geopolitics Supercycle, raising organizational PQ (Political Quotient), the intersection of geopolitics with ESG and market strategy, women's leadership and economic empowerment, and how leaders can build strategic resilience in a volatile global environment. Her talks are tailored for senior executive audiences and draw on real-world advisory experience with boards, investors, and governments. Book Tina Fordham through Aurum Speakers Bureau for your next conference or corporate event.
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