Klisman Murati

As the founder and CEO of Pareto Economics, Klisman Murati leads one of the world’s foremost companies for strategic analysis and future planning.

With his proprietary analytical tool, the Global Power Index (GPI), he evaluates 194 countries across six core dimensions of national strength. The GPI is used by international institutions, global corporations, institutional investors and government bodies to assess risks more precisely, identify opportunities and make well-founded strategic decisions for the future.

As a keynote speaker, Klisman Murati is known for clarity, originality and unexpected perspectives. Each keynote is tailored to the specific audience. He doesn’t just inform – he shifts mindsets and opens new pathways for action.

Klisman Murati Keynote Topics

• Building geoeconomic IQ: How to Lead and Build Resilience in a Fractured World

The rules that governed global commerce for three decades are being rewritten in real time. Trade is being weaponised, supply chains restructured along political lines, and economic policy is increasingly indistinguishable from foreign policy. Drawing on the Global Power Index, Murati equips leaders with the framework to read geoeconomic risk before it hits their balance sheet.

Impact: Increased confidence in your ability to understand, forecast and respond to geoeconomic changes in the world.

• Beyond emerging markets: Why we need a more sophisticated approach to understanding developing economies

The conventional frameworks used by investors, corporates, and policymakers to assess developing economies rely on income thresholds and credit ratings that obscure more than they reveal. Using the Global Power Index, Murati dismantles the emerging markets category and replaces it with a data-driven map of which economies are genuinely accumulating capability and which are being dangerously misread.

Impact: A paradigm shift in your understanding of emerging markets and the metrics you should be using to understand the developments in these countries.

• Vision and bricks: How to Build the Winning Nations of Tomorrow

National success is not random and it is not inevitable. It is engineered through specific combinations of institutional design, capital allocation, industrial strategy, and demographic management. Drawing on the Global Power Index and three decades of cross-country data, Murati identifies the structural patterns that separate nations on a genuine upward trajectory from those coasting on outdated narratives.

Impact: A competitive edge for leaders who need to move from reacting to global shifts to anticipating them, backed by the most comprehensive model of national development ever constructed.

• The 2026 Power Map: Where Opportunity and Risk Are Really Moving

Conventional analysis follows the loudest signals and treats them as the story. They are not. They are symptoms of deeper structural shifts that most frameworks fail to measure. Using live GPI data, Murati maps these shifts across 194 countries and overlays them onto the audience’s specific region, sector, or strategic priorities.

Impact: A bespoke strategic briefing that gives audiences a data-driven view of where power is actually moving.

Other areas of expertise of Prof. Klisman Murati

• Geo-economic Strategy & Global Power Dynamics
• Navigating Global Supply Chain Disruptions
• Leading in Uncertain Times
• The Future of International Trade & Investment
• First-Principles Thinking for Business Leaders
• Strategic Risk Management in Volatile Markets

With over 250 published articles and audiences from over 120 countries Klisman Murati has shaped the insights and strategies of juggernauts such as NATO, HSBC, The European Commission, Telia, Vanguard, Shell, Stena Bulk, OP Bank and JP Morgan, to name a few. Murati is widely recognised for his ability to decode macro geoeconomic complexity.

His method combines data, first-principles thinking, and a global outlook, helping leaders not only understand the world but actively shape it.

Klisman Murati also serves as a Visiting Professor at the Helsinki Geoeconomics Institute, where he merges academic depth with strategic application. His multidisciplinary background spans anthropology, political economy, energy policy, human rights, security studies, financial crime and outer space governance, giving him a rare ability to connect complex global patterns and deliver holistic, forward-thinking analysis.

Available formats: keynote presentations, closed door roundtable facilitation, masterclasses, and bespoke strategic reports – or any combination tailored to your objectives.

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