About

Umair Haque is one of the world’s leading economic thinkers. He’s been Chief Economist of one of the world’s largest institutions, helped reshape several industries, changed the way we think about the economy, been listed among the world’s Top 50 Thinkers, and much more.

An authoritative figure recognized around the world, with over half a million social media followers, whom he regularly teaches about economics, finance, and geopolitics, Umair’s been published in or interviewed by all of the world’s major newspapers, including the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Atlantic, and appeared on CNN with Fareed Zakaria, MSNBC, Vice, the BBC, and many others.

Recently, Umair is one of the minds who created the new field of Macro Risk.

Umair’s well-known for having an extremely accurate set of predictions about the future. Here’s an abridged list of just some of Umair’s many forecasts that have come true over the years:

—The financial crisis of 2008-2009
—Trump’s first election
—Trump’s second election
—The market crash of 2025
—America collapsing and democracy declining globally
—The economic and geopolitical turmoil the world’s in now

He was Harvard Business Review’s most read author for many years, and has written several peer-reviewed books published by Harvard Business Review Press. Umair studied at McGill, London Business School, and Oxford, and has taught at Columbia, Harvard, Stanford, London Business School, and INSEAD.