As we close the chapter on 2025 and step into a new year, the global geopolitical landscape continues to pivot with profound speed. A new year always brings new questions, especially as the world’s geopolitical landscape shifts beneath our feet. How to define alliances under current political context? To what degree are regional dynamics intensifying? And above all, how do we redraw the maps of opportunity and risk?
Before fully set off on a new journey, let’s pull up a chair and talk things through.
The EU SME Centre and the European Chamber are hosting a New Year Fireside Chat about the changes unfolding two global hotspots of the time. Being joined by two leading voices, Damien Ma, Director of Carnegie China, and Daniel Landsberg-Rodriguez, founding partner of Aurora Macro Strategies, we’ll move from the strategic heart of the U.S. to the complex, urgent story of Venezuela, and China’s role in the landscape.
Agenda
Thursday 15 January (CST)
15:00–15:30
Registration & Networking
15:30–15:35
Opening Remarks
15:35–16:05
Presentation by Damien Ma
16:05–16:35
Presentation by Daniel Landsberg-Rodriguez
16:35–17:00
Discussion and Q&A
About the Speakers
Damien Ma
Damien Ma is the director of Carnegie China, an East Asia-based research centre with its office in Singapore. For two decades, Damien has worked at the intersection of markets, policy, and global affairs, becoming a leading voice on China’s ascendance and U.S.-China dynamics, the most consequential bilateral relationship of the century.
An analyst by training but a builder at heart, Damien has built and led various intellectual ventures from the ground up, including the Macro Polo think tank at the Paulson Institute, the China practice at Eurasia Group, and a global experiential education program at Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management. He has also helped conceptualize and shape content verticals for macroeconomic and geopolitics-oriented consultancies.
Daniel Landsberg-Rodriguez
As the founding partner of Aurora Macro Strategies, Daniel heads the firm’s Geopolitics, Risk, and Strategy practice. In a two-decade career spanning journalism, government, and finance, he has advised many of the world’s leading businesses, investors, and governments.
Since 2015, Daniel has served on the faculty at Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management. Daniel regularly provides expert commentary and analysis for leading media outlets, conferences, and industry forums. In his free time, he enjoys advising and investing in tech startups, vanquishing Dimitris Valatsas at board games, and connecting interesting people. Daniel lives in Newton, Massachusetts, with his wife and twin daughters. He is a graduate of Harvard’s Kennedy School and the University of Chicago Law School.
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