Michael O’Sullivan

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Michael O’Sullivan

Michael O’Sullivan tracks the intersection of economics, politics, markets and history. He is the author of  ‘The Levelling’, a treatise on where the world might be heading as globalization grinds to a halt.

He has twenty years experience in global financial markets, most recently as Chief Investment Officer in the International Wealth Management Division of Credit Suisse, where he worked for twelve years. In addition to working in investment management, he was the lead contributor to Credit Suisse’s think tank, the CS Research Institute. He is an entrepreneur in the fintech and NFT spaces.

He is a member of the World Economic Forum’s Council on the New Economy, and a Forbes contributor, and a speaker at the 2021 TED Talk conference. His talk received in excess of 1 million views in five weeks.

He studied in Cork and received MPhil and DPhil degrees at Balliol College, Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. He has taught finance and economics at Oxford and Princeton.

He was an independent member of Ireland’s National Economic Social Council from 2011 to 2016, has is the author of a number of books and has contributed to journals like Foreign Affairs, the Financial Times, and Wall Street Journal in addition to being a regular guest on CNN, BBC, CNBC and Bloomberg.

A brilliant analysis of the transition in world economics, finance, and power as the era of globalization ends and gives way to new power centers and institutions.

The world is at a turning point similar to the fall of communism. Then, many focused on the collapse itself, and failed to see that a bigger trend, globalization, was about to take hold. The benefits of globalization–through the freer flow of money, people, ideas, and trade–have been many. But rather than a world that is flat, what has emerged is one of jagged peaks and rough, deep valleys characterized by wealth inequality, indebtedness, political recession, and imbalances across the world’s economies.
These peaks and valleys are undergoing what Michael O’Sullivan calls “the levelling”–a major transition in world economics, finance, and power. What’s next is a levelling-out of wealth between poor and rich countries, of power between nations and regions, of political accountability from elites to the people, and of institutional power away from central banks and defunct twentieth-century institutions such as the WTO and the IMF.
O’Sullivan then moves to ways we can develop new, pragmatic solutions to such critical problems as political discontent, stunted economic growth, the productive functioning of finance, and political-economic structures that serve broader needs.
The Levelling comes at a crucial time in the rise and fall of nations. It has special importance for the US as its place in the world undergoes radical change–the ebbing of influence, profound questions over its economic model, societal decay, and the turmoil of public life.

Here is a Forbes article Michael wrote on: Quid Pro Quo, economic rescue package must share the future economy

Some recent articles Michael has written:

Will AI take over the world?

Will AI crush diversity?

AI and the Workforce

 

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