Dr Dan Steinbock is an internationally-renowned expert on the multipolar world economy and the founder of the global consultancy Difference Group Ltd. He has served in the India China America Institute (US), the Shanghai Institutes for International Studies (China), and the EU Center (Singapore) and he has cooperated with several other think-tanks around the world. He has lived in Europe, the US, Asia and the Middle East and traveled in most world regions. A senior Fulbright scholar, he came to New York City in the 1980s. He has also worked in the kibbutzim and been influenced by progressive and peace movements. He has lectured around the world and consulted for multinational companies, multilateral development banks, government agencies, intergovernmental organizations like the OECD, and regional trading blocs, such as the EU, and several megacities. He has given keynotes on the global economy in institutional venues following Nouriel Roubini, Paul Krugman, Alan Greenspan, and Nassim Nicholas Taleb. Steinbock has had media advisory tasks in 1to1 Media, Fortune, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, McKinsey Quarterly Online Executive Panel, and so on. He has given keynotes at financial, investment, credit risk, pension and insurance events. He has been interviewed for the US National Intelligence Council’s Global Trends and the Economist EIU Insights. In his native Finland, he has briefed the president, prime ministers, ministers, multiple parliamentary committees. His commentaries and interviews have been released by more than 300 major media outlets in all world regions, from CNBC and CNN to Al Jazeera and China’s CGTN; from Wall Street Journal and Economist to China Daily and Xinhua and Qrius (India) and BusinessDay (Nigeria)