Arne Elias Corneliussen

Arne Elias Corneliussen is founder and Chief Executive Officer at NRCI – a geopolitical risk advisory. He formed NRCI in 2010. Mr. Corneliussen developed a genuine passion for international relations and history at a very early age. Regular travels around the world from an early age formed his international personality and zest for exploration and instilled in him a natural ability to connect with people on the ground from different cultures, religions and local communities. This gave him a unique ability to reflect, listen and observe the world with a unique lense from different perspectives, which he brings into his presentations, keynote speeches and advisory sessions with clients.

Arne’s most sought after keynotes include:

The Future of AI, Geopolitics and Globalisation

• This captivating keynote address with key emerging and future trends of AI, maps future trends in geopolitics, globalisation and the global economy, and provides a strategic design of the future.
  

• AI opens a new landscape of opportunities and risks, which NRCI´s founder and CEO Arne Elias Corneliusssen, examines in this captivating and thought-provoking keynote address.
  

• Arne combines his extraordinary geopolitical, strategic and economic insights from his multiple overland fact-finding expeditions worldwide
  

• Creative and innovative mindset on how companies, investors and fiancial companies should position for a future engulfed with geopolitical, strategic, economic and AI risks exacerbated by US – China decoupling tremors reverberating across industries, economies and countries.

Originally from Oslo, Arne Elias Corneliussen received his bachelor of arts in political science from Wittenberg University in Ohio in 1998. He studied at the American University in Cairo (AUC) in Egypt in 1996. He then returned to the US and worked at the Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, D.C in 1998. He lived and studied in Santiago, Chile in 1999. He completed a Master of Arts in International Relations and a Master of Public Administration (MPA) at the Maxwell School at Syracuse University in New York in 2000.

He worked as an officer for the Norwegian Armed Forces during NATO’s operation in Kosovo from 2001 until 2002. Since 2002 he held different roles in the corporate sector in Norway including sales, international business development and recruitment services. Mr. Corneliussen travelled to more than 115 countries in the Middle East, Africa, Asia, Latin and North America and Europe. He brings a unique combination of an intrepid practitioner, insightful academic and dynamic business acumen. He provided keynote addresses, presentations and moderator and hosting roles at international conferences, corprate and online / virtual events and webinars. He also provides lectures at universities around the world and in February 2019 he gave a presentation at St Antony´s College at the University of Oxford about his overland expeditions across western, southern and eastern Africa.

He regularly conducts long fact-finding expeditions where he maps political, security and business risks, infrastructure, local conditions and expands NRCI’s global network with local contacts. He travelled on 10 fact-finding expeditions to 42 countries in Africa and he crossed 28 countries on the African continent by public bus. In the fall of 2017 Mr. Corneliussen travelled on an expedition by train, bus and shared taxis from Shanghai across China, Central Asia and the Caucasus to Istanbul to map infrastructure developments, logistical clusters and the geopolitical landscape along One Belt One Road – the New Silk Road developed by China.

Arne Elias Corneliussen is also a motivational and inspirational speaker and provides unique presentations, which drive and build motivation for teams and companies.

He also serves as the conference director and program chair for Norwegian Risk Forum NRCI’s annual international geopolitical conference in Oslo focusing on geopolitical risks and international business opportunities.

Arne Elias Corneliussen provides thoughtful, carefully nuanced, inspiring and eye-opening presentations, keynote speeches and advisory sessions in virtual events, leadership and board meetings and webinars.

Teemat: Inspirational and Motivational, Strategic and Economic Forecast, New Geopolitical Landscape, Changing Global Environment, Current Affairs, Asia, Africa, the Middle East, China, US