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External developments, emerging risks, and what they mean for the people accountable for the call.
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Runi brings more than three decades of leadership experience from some of the world's leading financial institutions, including Deutsche Bank and Citi. Most recently, she served as Managing Director at Deutsche Bank.
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Mission Grey is pleased to announce that Mercy Kuo has joined the company as Head of Strategy, United States. She previously served as Executive Vice President and Head of Analysis at a U.S. corporate risk intelligence consultancy advising Fortune 500 companies.
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Mission Grey is pleased to announce that Lauri Byckling has joined the company as Strategic Advisor. He spent decades at Deloitte, where he held several senior leadership positions.
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The broader conclusion is straightforward. External volatility is no longer an exception; it is the operating environment. Companies that treat external intelligence as a core part of decision-making infrastructure will operate differently from those that do not.
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Economic and environmental outcomes are not local. They are interconnected across borders. The analysis demonstrates strong spillover effects.
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Across my discussions, a striking theme emerged: trust in US security guarantees is fading fast. A Singapore-based geopolitical expert told me simply: “We don’t even debate anymore whether the US is a reliable partner. We know it isn’t.”
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The forum brings together German and Finnish companies, government representatives, and public institutions to explore solutions in industry, energy, and logistics.
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Known as one of the world’s most trusted communities for dialogue, Horasis brings together decision-makers to address urgent questions of globalization, sustainability, and geopolitical change.
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Janaki brings nearly two decades of experience at the highest levels of the U.S. government and industry. She began her career as a CIA analyst focused on foreign space programs.
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Traditional financial models rely on probabilities, clean numbers that describe how likely each outcome is. But in geopolitically sensitive environments, reliable data is often missing.
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In global markets, uncertainty is not an inconvenience; it is the environment. Economic dependencies shift with political decisions, commodity prices react to shocks in unexpected ways, and asset relationships that look stable on paper can change dramatically in a few days.
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Markets are increasingly pricing fiscal credibility, institutional competence, and the ability to execute policy rather than campaign promises or ideological labels.
Electricity grids, ports, supply chains, public finances, and demographic pressure now weigh on business strategy as heavily as elections and legislation.
As data centers drive demand for electricity and water, AI infrastructure becomes a local political issue, and community acceptance becomes a condition for digital investment.
From Brazil and Peru to the United States and Malaysia, the issue separates structural economic change from short‑term political volatility.
The issue introduces the collaboration with Polylocal and the launch of Field Notes, a premium briefing on Taiwan’s political, regulatory, and economic developments, alongside new Guild contributions and Guildmaster Pekka Virkki’s latest book.
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A Mission Grey Guild podcast
Expert guests on the forces reshaping global business: great power competition, wars, pandemics, and the compounding shocks of the polycrisis era. Hosted by Rwizi Rweizooba Ainomugisha, a member of the Mission Grey Guild and founder of the Wargaming Weekly newsletter.
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Mercy Kuo joins Rwizi Rweizooba Ainomugisha to discuss wargaming as a decision tool, how to think about China risk, and the discipline of turning uncertainty into action.
Mercy Kuo · Author of The China Risk Report · Mission Grey team member
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In the first episode, Lauri Tähtinen joins Rwizi Rweizooba Ainomugisha to discuss human‑machine teaming and what it means for decision‑makers operating in complex environments.
Lauri Tähtinen · Human‑machine teaming expert
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