Lee Howell, Executive Director, Villars Institute

This week on our Commodities in Asia series, we welcome Lee Howell, Executive Director at the Villars Institute, into the SmarterMarkets™ studio. Host David Greely sits down with Lee to discuss the shifting tides in international affairs and the new geopolitical realities that are being created by the energy transition – and Asia’s place in […]

Daniel Yergin, Vice Chairman of S&P Global and Author of “The New Map”

This week, we welcome Pulitzer Prize winning author Daniel Yergin back into the SmarterMarkets™ studio. Daniel is Vice Chairman of S&P Global and author of The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations, as well as the Pulitzer Prize winning book The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power. SmarterMarkets™ host […]

Helima Croft, Managing Director & Global Head of Commodity Strategy, RBC Capital Markets

On this week’s installment of our Summer Playlist, we welcome Helima Croft back into the SmarterMarkets™ studio. Helima is Managing Director and Global Head of Commodity Strategy at RBC Capital Markets. SmarterMarkets™ host David Greely sits down with Helima to discuss the geopolitics and current state of play in the global commodities markets. Helima’s Summer […]

Parag Khanna, Founder & CEO, Climate Alpha and Founder & Managing Partner, FutureMap

This week on our Days of Futures Past series, we welcome Parag Khanna into the SmarterMarkets™ studio. Parag is Founder & CEO of Climate Alpha and Founder & Managing Partner of FutureMap. He is the author of seven books including Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilization and The Future is Asian: Commerce, Conflict, and […]

David Shukman, Journalist & Former Science Editor, BBC

We kick off our new Carbon Frontiers series with David Shukman, a distinguished journalist and the former science editor of the BBC, where he reported from the climate frontlines for over 20 years. SmarterMarkets™ host David Greely sits down with Shukman to catch up on his continuing experiences on the frontlines of climate, government policy, […]

Rob Dannenberg, Former Chief of Central Eurasia Division, CIA

We welcome Rob Dannenberg into the SmarterMarkets™ studio as we continue our A Smarter Way series. Rob is the former Chief of the Central Eurasia Division at the CIA. SmarterMarkets™ host David Greely sits down with Rob to discuss how understanding how our adversaries think is the first step in finding smarter ways to navigate […]

Liz Hoffman, Business & Finance Editor, Semafor

We’re joined this week by Liz Hoffman, Business & Finance Editor at Semafor and the author of the forthcoming book Crash Landing: The Inside Story of How the World’s Biggest Companies Survived an Economy on the Brink. SmarterMarkets™ host David Greely sits down with Liz to discuss how to provide trustworthy financial news to an […]

Daniel Yergin, Vice Chairman, S&P Global

In this episode, host David Greely welcomes energy icon and Vice Chairman of S&P Global, Daniel Yergin, to discuss EU energy crisis warnings and calls for immediate solutions spread across global headlines. Covering everything from his predictions in The New Map: Energy, Climate and the Clash of Nations to S&P’s recent Future of Copper Report […]

Ranting on the inadequacies of our systems and riffing on ideas for how to solve them …

SmarterMarkets™ brings together the icons and entrepreneurs of technology, commodities and finance to examine how market systems can be redesigned and improved to address the most important challenges of our time.