Crowell Global Advisors Unveils Eight Great Geopolitical Risks of 2025
Global policy experts outline the major global challenges, opportunities, and actions plans to help businesses navigate the year ahead
Washington, DC – Jan. 30, 2025 – Today, Crowell Global Advisors (CGA) released its overview of Eight Great Geopolitical Risks of 2025, highlighting the most pressing challenges facing global businesses in the year ahead. CGA’s team of former senior government officials, C-suite executives, and renowned industry experts provide critical insights for companies as they chart their strategy to navigate the volatile geopolitical environment.
“After an extraordinary year of global elections – one that saw incumbents yield power in many major countries, we start off 2025 with a host of new leaders around the world seeking to make good on their promises of change. For global business, it all amounts to greater policy uncertainty in the year ahead.” said Geralyn Ritter, President and CEO of CGA. “All of this uncertainty creates challenges to long-term planning and investment. For our clients, this environment also creates opportunities for well-informed, strategic, and agile businesses. With geopolitical risk, smart scenario planning and risk mitigation is the name of the game.”
“Eight Great” Geopolitical Risks of 2025 are:
- Geopoliticization of AI: Rising “techno-nationalism” threatening global collaboration and innovation.
- Turning Away from Multilateralism: Shifting global leadership injecting uncertainty into business operations and investment.
- Tariffs and Trade Restrictions: Global supply chains face disruptions and rising costs.
- Cybersecurity: Escalating cyberattacks from state-sponsored actors undermining trust.
- U.S.-China Relations: Early indicators point to intensifying cycles of economic and political tension.
- Global Public Health: Effects of climate change, conflict, and declining funding combining to weaken pandemic preparedness efforts.
- Armed Conflict: Continued global instability requires greater business attention on safety and business continuity.
- Immigration and Workforce Shortages: Negative economic consequences expected from restrictive migration policies.
Over the next several weeks, CGA will release a series of reports that provide an overview of these risks. These publications will explore the challenges in greater detail and outline practical strategies for businesses to stay ahead of emerging threats and identify growth opportunities presented by this current climate.
About Crowell Global Advisors
Crowell Global Advisors helps clients navigate global business challenges, unlock new opportunities and deliver on their promises to customers. CGA is the global policy consulting firm affiliated with Crowell & Moring LLP. Since 1987, public and private organizations around the world have turned to CGA’s team of former C-Suite executives, senior government officials, and industry leaders to solve their most complex problems. With offices in Washington DC, Singapore, and Hong Kong, CGA takes a mission-driven approach to ensure that today’s commercial breakthroughs improve lives, strengthen economies, and drive meaningful, lasting impact for a more sustainable future.
