Hagai M. Segal

Hagai M. Segal is a multi-award-winning academic, consultant and analyst, specialising in geopolitics, international security and the Middle East. The world we live in today, with its volatile mix of interwoven and overlapping crisis and complexity, has been described as a 'Polycrisis World', as VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous) and now even as TUNA (turbulent, uncertain, novel and ambiguous). But however we define it, the complex realities of global politics have never created so many day-to-day pressures and obstacles for global businesses and the C-Suite, posing unique challenges that many enterprises simply are not ready or willing to adapt to. 

Hagai is uniquely placed to help corporations and corporate leaders understand and address the impacts of this geopolitical complexity on their businesses and develop strategies for change: an academic with globally renowned expertise, experience and research on geopolitics and its economic impacts, who also has decades of experience in boardrooms helping enterprises and the C-Suite executives navigate the challenges and threats posed by geopolitics to their core business and profits.

A New York University London Professor, he has won two different New York University annual teaching awards. He helps organisations understand, anticipate and manage complex geopolitical risks such as terrorism and global economic fluctuations. As a Member of the London First Security and Resilience Advisory Board, Hagai served for its whole 10-year tenure, and worked with and advised numerous government agencies and other public bodies across the globe. He also previously helped plan and facilitate a round of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. 

A prolific speaker, Hagai has given keynote addresses to corporate conferences and events in over 30 countries - in countless sectors from banking/investment to insurance to hospitality to logistics to aviation - and has advised numerous multinational corporations, banks, investment houses, insurance firms, NGOs and CEO forums/business leaders organisations all around the world. His work enables businesses and organisations to easily understand, interpret and anticipate the complex risks and crises impacting on our increasingly globalised world, and helps them to ensure they are best placed to mitigate their harm, and in some instances, profit from them.

If you are looking for a seasoned geopolitics keynote speaker, or a speaker to help your change management process in these volatile political times, Hagai M. Segal, is the best in the business. Contact today!