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Thierry Malleret

Thierry Malleret is a managing partner at Rainbow Insight ("Brokering Ideas and Opinions"), an advisory boutique that provides tailor-made intelligence to high-net-worth individuals and investors

Until April 2007, Thierry headed the Global Risk Network at the World Economic Forum, a network that brings together top-end opinion and policymakers, CEOs and academics to look at how global issues will affect business and society in the short- and long-term.

Thierry has organized Davos and spoken at global, industry and regional events for several consecutive years. Prior to that, he worked in investment banking (as a Chief Economist and Strategist of a major Russian investment bank), think tanks and academia (both in New York and Oxford) and in government (with a three-year spell in the Prime Minister's office in Paris).

Thierry has written several business and academic books, and has also published four novels. He has appeared on numerous network television programs (including CNN and CNBC) and has been widely published, among other places, in: the International Herald Tribune, Wall Street Journal and Time Magazine. His next book: Global Risks - Business Success in Turbulent Times, will be published by McMillan in the US and the UK in the Summer.

He was educated at the Sorbonne and Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris and St. Antony's College at Oxford. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics.

Other positions:

1988-90, Chargé de Mission, Prime Minister's Office, Paris;

1990-91, Resident Fellow, Institute for East-West Security Studies, New York;

1992-98, Associate Banker and Economist, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, London;

1998-99, Chief Economist and Strategist, Alfa Bank, Moscow;

currently, Senior Director, Global Agenda, World Economic Forum.

The key risks confronting our world demand a global approach:

1. Economic risks

  • Growth in China
  • Oil prices/energy consumption
  • US current account deficit
  • Asset prices
  • Looming financial crises

2. Geopolitical risks

  • Terrorism
  • Current and future crisis areas
  • Weapons of mass destruction
  • Organized crime

3. Social risks

  • Radical Islam
  • The threat of religious conflicts
  • Population decline
  • Poverty
  • Pandemics
  • A surfeit of men
  • Demographic ageing
  • Migration
  • Acceptance of new technology

4. Environmental risks

  • The ecosystem
  • Climate change
  • Air pollution
  • Natural catastrophes and accidents
  • Nitrogen loading
  • Water

Source: «Gobal Risks at a Glance», WEF 2004

 

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