Robert Muggah is a political scientist specializing in geopolitics and international security and climate and nature action. He is co-founder of the Igarapé Institute and SecDev as well as start-ups such as Bioverse and Civic Net Zero. Muggah advises national and city governments, international organizations, technology and commodity companies and impact philanthropies, including UN agencies, IDB, the IMF and the World Bank, across more than 40 countries. He is a fellow or affiliate of Princeton University, the Robert Bosch Academy, the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and Singularity University, and advises the World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Report and international commissions on AI safety, transnational crime and gun policy. He has authored eight books and more than 100 peer-reviewed articles, is a columnist at several leading international outlets such as Foreign Policy, has delivered multiple TED Talks, and holds a DPhil from the University of Oxford.