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Dr Dan Steinbock is an recognized expert of the multipolar world. He focuses on international business, international relations, investment and risk among the leading advanced and large emerging economies.
He is a Senior ASLA-Fulbright Scholar (New York University and Columbia Business School).
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![]() When the 110-story Twin Towers collapsed, I ran out from my apartment on East 44th Street, near the UN, to donate blood at a hospital... But it wasn't the first terrorist attack I witnessed; those began in the early '70s... After 9/11, we Newyorkers prayed for peace. What followed was two decades of misguided post-9/11 wars... Missed opportunities worth of $8 trillion, which virtually ensured the new Cold Wars. War breeds war; peace ensures peace... Hence, my dedication to peace... | ![]() Dr. Steinbock has participated in major investment summits across the world, including those by APAC Investments (MarcusEvans), along with Nobel-Prize awarded Paul Krugman, leading global macroeconomist Nouriel Roubini, risk specialist Nassim N. Taleb, and investor oracle Mark Mobius. |
![]() Dr Steinbock is an internationally recognized expert of the multipolar world. He has senior affiliations at India China and America Institute (US), Shanghai Institutes for International Studies (China) and EU Center (Singapore). As a Fulbright scholar, he has cooperated with Stern School of Business (NYU), Columbia School of Business, Harvard Business School. He has served on many media advisory boards (Fortune, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, McKinsey, 1to1 Media). | ![]() Dr Steinbock's interview and comments on global growth prospects amid monetary easing and quantitative easing in the West. |
![]() Among other major media outlets, Dr Steinbock's commentaries are regularly published in Prof Nouriel Roubini's EconoMonitor, a leading global economic hub. Prof Roubini was one of the few who foresaw the coming of the 2008 crisis. | ![]() Shanghai Institutes for International Studies, Fall 2008. It was in this SIIS Conference that Dr Steinbock made the prediction that US unemployment would not decrease to its pre-crisis level until the mid-2010s. While highly controversial at the time, it proved valid. |
![]() Dr Steinbock has lectured at Shanghai Institutes for International Studies (SIIS) since 2005. He has the highest regard for the prestigious think-tank that advises the Chinese central government and the city of Shanghai. In the photo: SIIS President Chen Dongxiao and SIIS Chairman Jiemian Yang, with visitor Fareed Zakaria, the author of 'The Post-American World.' | ![]() Dr Steinbock has analyzed issues of international affairs in the American Foreign Policy Interests, which is edited by Dr. George Schwab. It is the journal of the prestigious National Committee on American Foreign Policy whose chairman is Paul Volcker, former chair of the Fed. NCAFP was founded by Dr. Hans Morgenthau, the pioneer of realism in international politics. |
![]() | ![]() "There is no real equality without full gender equality," Dr Steinbock says. He grew up in Finland whose national assembly became the first parliament worldwide to embrace full gender equality in 1906 - a decade before its national independence. |
![]() Dr Steinbock has released several books and numerous reports about global information and communication technology competition. | ![]() As Senior Fulbright scholar, Dr Steinbock was affiliated with Stern School of Business of New York University and Columbia Graduate School of Business, two leading global academic organizations. He continues to lecture in the NYU's Global EMBA program and remains affiliate in Columbia. |
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Difference Group Ltd focuses on international business, international relations, investment and risk among both advanced and emerging economies.
For Dr Steinbock's bio, click here. His reports and commentaries are published in major media outlets worldwide. Some of his research and analysis is publicly available. On his ICT books, see here.
For Dr Steinbock's interviews, keynotes, briefings and reports, contact: info@differencegroup.net

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