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Robert Muggah

Robert Muggah

Keynote Speaker: Specialist in Smart and Green Cities, Geopolitics, Public Safety, and Cybersecurity; Co-Founder of Social Policy Think Tank Igarapé Institute & The SecDev Group

Robert Muggah Biography

Robert Muggah is a globally recognized specialist in smart and green cities, geopolitics and public safety, and cyber security and the digital economy. He is co-founder and principle of the SecDev Group - a risk firm devoted to strengthening cyber security for public and private clients including Facebook and Google. He also co-founded the Igarapé Institute - ranked the top social policy think tank in the world by Prospect in 2019 - and committed to data-driven security, justice, digital rights and climate action. Muggah is also a senior adviser to McKinseys as well as the OECD, UN agencies, and the World Bank. He serves on the board of several technology start-ups and designs big data analytics for a range of clients.

For two decades Muggah has advised national and municipal governments, tech companies and international organizations in over 50 countries on issues ranging from data-driven crime prevention and urban renewal to supply chain risk management to mitigating cyber threats. He is a fellow at Princeton University, the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, and faculty at Singularity University. He also serves on the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Future Council on Cities, its annual Global Risk Report and co-chairs the Global Parliament of Mayors. He is regularly invited by the UN Secretary General to contribute to high-level panels and reports.

Muggah has authored eight books and over 75 peer-review journals - including most recently "Terra Incognita: 100 Maps to Survive the Next 100 Years" (2020, Penguin/Random House). He is a regular contributor to the Atlantic, BBC, CNN, Financial Times, Guardian, Economist, Financial Times, New York Times, Newsweek, USA Today, and Wired (as well as over a dozen French, Spanish and Portuguese outlets) and gave TED talks in 2015, 2017 and 2019. He has given dozens of live talks using mesmerizing data visualization platforms and remote sensing techniques. Muggah received his PhD from the University of Oxford.

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Robert Muggah Speaking Topics

Nuclear & Climate Threats

Robert Muggah consults with governments, the UN, World Bank and firms ranging from Google to McKinsey. He is known for designing award-winning interactive data visualizations that track the global arms trade, homicidal violence, fragile cities, nuclear threats, and climate change.

The Future of the Global Liberal Order

Robert Muggah and Taylor Owen, University of British Columbia (UBC), are leading the Phil Lind Initiative in US Studies series on the future of the liberal order. The series features Ed Luce, Steven Pinker, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Frank Fukuyama, Susan Rice, and Misha Glenny. The initiative strives to help shape a debate on these issues here in North America and later, in Europe and Latin America through a variety of media outlets.

Robert Muggah Videos

Toward Terra Cognita: Mapping an Uncertain World Robert
We need to take action now to protect the Amazon Basin
Coronavirus in Brazil

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What topics does Robert Muggah speak about?

Robert Muggah is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics such as Security & Defense, Cybersecurity, TED, Climate Change, World Affairs, Supply Chain, Geopolitics, Economy, Technology and Government.

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Robert Muggah generally travels from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances.

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Robert Muggah is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics including Security & Defense, Cybersecurity and TED. The estimated speaking fee range to book Robert Muggah for live events is $20,000 - $30,000, and for virtual events Below $10,000. Robert Muggah generally travels from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are Peter Diamandis, Christiana Figueres and Jacqueline Novogratz. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Robert Muggah for an upcoming event.

Robert Muggah Speaking Topics

  • Nuclear & Climate Threats

    Robert Muggah consults with governments, the UN, World Bank and firms ranging from Google to McKinsey. He is known for designing award-winning interactive data visualizations that track the global arms trade, homicidal violence, fragile cities, nuclear threats, and climate change.

  • The Future of the Global Liberal Order

    Robert Muggah and Taylor Owen, University of British Columbia (UBC), are leading the Phil Lind Initiative in US Studies series on the future of the liberal order. The series features Ed Luce, Steven Pinker, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Frank Fukuyama, Susan Rice, and Misha Glenny. The initiative strives to help shape a debate on these issues here in North America and later, in Europe and Latin America through a variety of media outlets.

Robert Muggah Videos

Toward Terra Cognita: Mapping an Uncertain World Robert
We need to take action now to protect the Amazon Basin
Coronavirus in Brazil
Are pandemics increasing and what do they cost?
Robert Muggah - Comite International Geneve

Robert Muggah News

  • Opinion Piece: "So, the liberal order is in free fall? Not so fast."

    Robert Muggah is the co-founder of Igarapé Institute and SecDev Group. Taylor Owen is an assistant professor at the University of British Columbia.

  • The Phil Lind Initiative Series on "The Unraveling of the Liberal Order"

    Digital connectivity and new technologies are accelerating political, economic and social transformation and literally changing the rules of the game, pulling at the seams of global stability. Will the liberal order hold, or is its disassembling inevitable? What kinds of global order(s) does the future hold? The Phil Lind Initiative’s Spring 2018 series will explore these and other questions, with visits from the world’s leading intellectuals on the subject.

  • Brazil's Killing Fields | Robert Muggah

    Brazil is the world's murder capital. More than 1.3 million homicides have occurred there since 1980. And the problem appears to be getting worse. The rate of ...

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