Klisman Murati

As founder and managing director of Pareto Economics, Klisman Murati heads one of the world's leading companies for strategic analysis and future planning.

Using his own analytical tool, the Global Power Index (GPI), he evaluates 194 countries based on six key dimensions of national strength. The GPI is used by international institutions, global corporations, institutional investors and government agencies to better assess risks, identify opportunities and make informed decisions for the future.

Klisman Murati: "How to understand the Changing World Order."

As a keynote speaker, Klisman Murati is known for his clarity, originality and surprising perspectives. Each keynote is tailored to the respective audience. He not only informs – he changes mindsets and patterns of behaviour.

Klisman Murati lecture 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 topics covered by Prof. Klisman Murati

- Geo-economic strategies and global power shifts
- Dealing with global supply chain disruptions
- Leadership in uncertain and dynamic times
- The future of international trade and investment
- First principles thinking for executives
- Strategic risk management in volatile markets

With over 250 published articles and a readership in more than 120 countries, Klisman Murati has shaped the perspectives and strategies of renowned organisations, including NATO, HSBC, the European Commission, Telia, Vanguard, Shell, Stena Bulk, OP Bank and JP Morgan. He is considered a proven expert in making complex geo-economic relationships understandable.

His method combines data analysis, first principles thinking and a global perspective. In this way, he supports decision-makers in not only understanding developments, but also actively shaping them.

Klisman Murati also teaches as a visiting professor at the Helsinki Geoeconomics Institute, where he combines academic depth with practical strategy. His interdisciplinary background encompasses anthropology, political economy, energy policy, human rights, security studies, financial crime and space policy. This enables him to identify global patterns and convey holistic, forward-looking analyses.

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

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