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George Friedman

George Friedman
Founder and CEO, Stratfor
Author of The Next Decade: What the World Will Look Like

Technology Tuesdays
February 1, 2011

 

 

The next ten years will be a time of massive transition. The wars in the Islamic world will be subsiding, and terrorism will become something we learn to live with. China will be encountering its crisis. We will be moving from a time when financial crises dominate the world to a time when labor shortages will begin to dominate. The new century will be taking shape in the next decade.

In The Next Decade, George Friedman offers readers a provocative and endlessly fascinating prognosis for the immediate future. Using Machiavelli's The Prince as a model, Friedman focuses on the world's leaders―particularly the American president―and with his trusted geopolitical insight analyzes the complex chess game they will all have to play. The book also asks how to be a good president in a decade of extraordinary challenge, and puts the world's leaders under a microscope to explain how they will arrive at the decisions they will make―and the consequences these actions will have for us all.


 

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George Friedman's book: "The Next Decade: What the World Will Look Like"

George Friedman is the Chief Executive Officer of STRATFOR, a company he founded in 1996 that is now a leader in the field of global intelligence. In addition to his responsibilities as CEO, Friedman guides STRATFOR’s strategic vision and oversees the development and training of the company’s intelligence unit. Dr. Friedman is the author of the New York Times best seller "The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century," as well as other books on warfare and intelligence, including "America’s Secret War," "The Future of War" and "The Intelligence Edge."

Dr. Friedman is frequently invited by governments and major corporations to speak in countries such as Turkey, Germany, Poland, Azerbaijan, Australia and New Zealand. He has also spoken at numerous conferences and industry-specific events for major financial firms such as JP Morgan, Citibank, Ernst & Young, and many Fortune 500 companies and military and government organizations. Major television and radio networks such as CNN, Fox News, and NPR regularly invite Dr. Friedman to appear as an international affairs intelligence expert. He has also been featured in major news magazines and newspapers.

Prior to joining the private sector, Friedman was Director at the Center for Geopolitical Studies which he co-founded at Louisiana State University in 1994. He spent the previous twenty years as a professor of political science and taught political philosophy and military strategy at several Universities and colleges in the northeast United States. During this time he consulted with Government agencies, developed computerized war gaming projects and regularly briefed senior commanders in the armed services on national security and defense matters. He received his bachelor’s degree from the City College of the City University of New York and holds a Ph.D. in government from Cornell University.

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