Arne Elias Corneliussen is a geopolitical advisor and global strategist who supports business leaders, financial companies, and policy makers. He is a political scientist and he studied in the US, Egypt, and Chile. He traveled around the world from a young age, and possesses a broad and deep global understanding of geopolitical and strategic events and dynamics. He is the founder and chief executive officer of NRCI – a geopolitical advisory firm he established in Oslo, Norway, in 2010.
Arne traveled to more than 125 countries, and he conducted a wide range of long overland fact-finding
expeditions alone by bus, train, and car across Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and Latin America where he mapped geopolitical, strategic and economic risks and opportunities. These overland fact-finding expeditions gave him extraordinary geopolitical, strategic, and business insights.
He conducted 11 fact-finding expeditions to 42 countries on the African continent, and he traveled by public bus across 28 countries in western, southern, and eastern Africa. Furthermore, he also traveled on a fact-finding expedition by train, bus and car from Shanghai to Istanbul across China, Central Asia, and the Caucasus to map infrastructure developments, logistics clusters, and the geopolitical landscape along One Belt One Road, also called the New Silk Road, which China develops. In the fall of 2022, he traveled by bus and train across 19 countries in eastern, southern, and western Europe and assessed geopolitical and strategic dynamics in Europe, and Europe’s future. Moreover, in 2023 and 2024, he traveled on a 5-month fact-finding expedition in southern and eastern Africa to assess geopolitical dynamics, and investment and business opportunities.
His vast global on the ground experience assessing geopolitical, strategic, and economic developments,
and investment and business opportunities, combined with managing a geopolitical advisory firm make him uniquely experienced and highly knowledgeable about global geopolitical events, risk management and global business strategy.
Arne Elias Corneliussen maintains close dialogue with a vast network of informed contacts on all levels in academia, business, diplomacy, and governments worldwide. He is program chair, conference host, moderator, and keynote speaker at Norwegian Risk Forum – NRCI’s annual geopolitical conference focusing on geopolitical risks and business opportunities worldwide.
Arne provides truly eye-opening, captivating, and highly insightful virtual and in-person keynote presentations, speaking engagements, and advisory sessions on geopolitics, global economy, energy, leadership, global business strategy, and future trends. Arne is also an insightful panelist on a range of topics, an engaging and thoughtful moderator, and a conference host able to provide extraordinary insights while leading memorable conferences and events. His geopolitical and strategic advice is sought-after among global companies, financial firms, and governments.
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