Mark Rosenberg

I am the founder of GeoQuant (sold to Fitch Group in 2022) and a UC Berkeley PhD political economist specializing in political risk. At Berkeley, I trained in game theory with Robert Powell and African politics/economics with Robert Price, Leonardo Arriola, and Edward Miguel; I was also a National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Fellow. After completing my PhD, I was hired as Africa Analyst at the pre-eminent political risk firm Eurasia Group (EG) and soon became Director of Africa, Comparative Analytics and Research Management. I led product development at EG and helped manage its global research platform of 60+ analysts covering over 90 countries and a range of sectors. Previously,I helped build Freedom House's well-known democracy index and edited the organization’s flagship Freedom in the World publication.

GeoQuant -- the first and (still) the only company of it's kind -- fuses political science and computer science to generate benchmark measures of (geo)political risk for global investors. The company was acquired by Fitch Solutions in 2022, where I was most recently a Managing Director. I previously taught political risk analysis at Columbia-SIPA and now teach political science and computational social science at UC Berkeley, where I am also a Visiting Scholar in the Dept of Political Science. I publish and speak internationally on geopolitical risk.