Sandra Navidi

Why organisations work with Sandra Navidi

• She wrote the book on how the financial elite actually operates. SuperHubs maps the people, institutions and personal networks that move capital and policy, and gives a board a working model of where systemic risk concentrates rather than a list of headlines.
• She is a member of Columbia University’s Center on Capitalism and Society, founded by Nobel laureate Edmund Phelps, which gives her line of sight to academic research on capitalism, innovation and inequality alongside her practitioner work.
• Her second book, Future IQ, treats AI as a workforce and strategy question, not a technology demo. That makes her unusually well placed to take a board through the macro and the AI conversation in a single session.
• Bilingual delivery in English and German, paired with two decades of n-tv commentary, gives DACH and transatlantic audiences a speaker who works natively in both regulatory and cultural contexts.
• A licensed attorney in New York and Germany with prior roles in investment banking, fund counsel work and macro advisory at Roubini Global Economics. The credential stack maps directly to the rooms she is asked to speak in.

Biography highlights

• Founder and CEO of BeyondGlobal, a New York-based strategic advisory firm.
• Author of SuperHubs, a Bloomberg Best Book of the Year and 2018 Axiom Business Book Awards Silver Medal winner.
• Author of Future IQ: Your Success Strategies in the Age of Artificial Intelligence and Die DNA der USA: Wie tickt Amerika.
• Member of the Center on Capitalism and Society, Columbia University.
• LinkedIn Top Voice (Executive Blue Badge) and long-standing n-tv (RTL) expert commentator on business and politics.
• Co-host of the Biz and Beyond podcast with Ulrich Reitz, interviewing senior decision-makers and international experts.

Biography

The 2008 financial crisis exposed something most risk frameworks had missed. The shocks did not travel through markets in the abstract; they travelled through a small, interlocking network of bankers, regulators, central bankers and policy figures who knew each other personally. SuperHubs, written with a foreword by Nouriel Roubini, is the book that mapped that network and named it. It was selected as a Bloomberg Best Book of the Year and won a Silver Medal in the 2018 Axiom Business Book Awards.

Sandra Navidi spent the years before that book inside the rooms she went on to describe. She worked as an investment banker, as general counsel at Muzinich and Co., as a Deloitte consultant, and then as a director of research strategies at Roubini Global Economics, where she briefed clients on macroeconomic and geopolitical risk. She is admitted to the bar in New York and Germany, holds an LL.M. in banking, corporate and finance law from Fordham, and is a member of Columbia University’s Center on Capitalism and Society, founded by Nobel laureate Edmund Phelps.

Her second book, Future IQ, takes the same network thinking into the AI conversation. It treats AI as a workforce and capital-allocation problem, not a technology demonstration, and asks how individuals, organisations and economies stay relevant when machine intelligence absorbs more of the cognitive work. It is the bridge between her macro authority and the questions boards are now being asked by their own people.

Through BeyondGlobal she advises corporates, financial institutions and ultra-high-net-worth clients; through n-tv (RTL) and the Biz and Beyond podcast she keeps a working line into German and European business audiences. The result is a speaker who can move between Washington-style macro analysis, frankfurt-style risk culture and a Silicon Valley AI brief inside the same keynote, in either English or German.

Key speaking topics

• Systemic risk and the architecture of global finance
• Geopolitics, sanctions and transatlantic exposure
• AI as a strategy and workforce question
• Macroeconomic volatility and capital allocation
• Future-proofing leadership and human capital
• US political and economic intelligence for European boards

Ideal for

• Boards and executive committees of banks, asset managers and insurers
• CEOs, CFOs and CROs in globally exposed corporates
• Family offices and private wealth platforms with cross-border allocation decisions
• DACH and transatlantic leadership audiences requiring bilingual delivery

Audience outcomes

• A working mental model of where systemic risk concentrates in the global financial system, named by institution and actor.
• A clearer read on how geopolitical fracture, sanctions and US policy shifts reach their own balance sheet.
• A practitioner view of AI as a capital and workforce question, not a tooling debate.
• A briefing on what US business and political dynamics mean for European strategy in the next cycle.