Peter Zeihan Keynote Speaker

Author 'The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization' (2022)
Geopolitical Strategist, Thinker, Futurist & Speaker
Expert on understanding of Demography, Economics, Energy, Politics, Technology & Security to help clients best prepare for an uncertain future.

Peter Zeihan's Biography

Peter Zeihan is a globally recognized leader in geopolitical strategy, or helping people understand how the world works. Peter combines an expert understanding of demography, economics, energy, politics, technology, and security to help clients best prepare for an uncertain future.

With clients spanning from Iowa to DC, and from Calgary to Seoul, Peter utilizes his unique worldview to help clients build more resilient operations, supply chains and business practices in our increasingly complex global environment.

Peter is a New York Times-bestselling author, whose books have been recommended by Mitt Romney, Fareed Zakaria and Ian Bremmer. His best-selling fourth title, The End of the World is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization, became available in June 2022. His first book, The Accidental Superpower was re-released in an updated 10^th anniversary edition in 2024.

With a keen eye toward what will drive tomorrow’s headlines, his irreverent approach transforms topics that are normally dense and heavy into accessible, relevant takeaways for audiences of all types.

Over the course of his career, Peter has worked for the US State Department in Australia, the DC think tank community, and helped develop the analytical models for Stratfor, one of the world’s premier private intelligence companies. Peter founded his own firm — Zeihan on Geopolitics — in 2012 to provide a select group of clients with direct, independent analytical products. Today those clients represent a vast array of sectors including energy majors, financial institutions, business associations, agricultural interests, universities and the U.S. military.

Changes in the Global Landscape and the changes this will bring to Trade and Business as we know it today

America On the Edge

The world as we know it is ending. Global trade and everything that comes from it — cheap Asian goods, international energy markets, global agriculture, stable finance — is about to unravel. Out of all this the Americans — cast in both the role of disruptor and survivor — are making decisions that will shape both themselves and the rest of the world for decades. Get a sneak peek at the future of energy, agriculture, finance, and the role America will play in the world to come.

What Every Financial Professional Should Know About Geopolitics

Geopolitics is the study of how place impacts people — whether that impact be cultural, military, economic, political…or financial. Everything from how banks lend to how stocks are traded is heavily colored by where one lives, and understanding the unspoken — and often unacknowledged — rules of the game can prove critical to financial success. Zeihan explains how geography impacts the various regions differently, how this elevates some sectors while enervating others, and what sort of surprises — both good and bad — are about to burst onto the stage.

At the Edge of Disorder

The concept of countries being able to buy and sell their wares openly on the international marketplace is inviolable. The freedom to sail one’s products around the world is a given. Everything from the transfer of money to the accessibility of energy is sacrosanct. Yet all this and more is artificial: an unintended — if happy — side effect of the American-led global Order. With that Order in its final days, all countries and all industries must learn to operate in a world as unstructured as it is dangerous. Join us as Peter Zeihan lays out how we got to where we are, and what the future holds for sectors as diverse as energy, agriculture, finance, manufacturing and transport.

Getting Through the End of the World

For the past decade, Peter has been discussing the nature, strength and weaknesses of the international system. How post-World War II institutions, geography and demographics have made our world our world…and how it was never going to last. Well, we are now at that world’s end. Any number of factors – the Ukraine War, the fall of China and Germany, energy breakdowns, supply chain collapses, workforce shrivelings, financial contractions, and so on – would independently be sufficient to break the international economy. And they are all happening at once. We were always going to get here, and here we are. So let’s discuss what happens next.

A Peek Past the End of the World

It has been a long time coming, but we have arrived at the end of the world. Decades of demographic degradation are now manifesting as chronic shortages of labor and capital. Globalization isn’t simply past its peak, it is disintegrating with accelerating speed. A fleet of ends beckon: global energy, global agriculture, global manufacturing, integrated Europe. China. But an end to this world does not mean an end to the world, simply that the rules of the game and the lists of winners and losers are changing. As the environment rearranges it’ll be a (very) bumpy ride, but we stand at the launch of the greatest period of growth in North American history.