Tina Fordham

Tina Fordham is Managing Director and Chief Global Political Analyst at Citi, the first to hold this position. Fordham is a member of the Corporate and Investment Bank Diversity Board and the Veteran's Network at Citi, and sits on the International Advisory Council for the foreign policy think tank Carnegie Europe, as well as the Advisory Board for the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. A fellow of the Aspen Institute's Socrates Society for emerging leaders, Fordham was appointed in 2016, by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon, to the U.N.'s first High-Level Panel on Women's Economic Empowerment, which also includes IMF president Christine Lagarde. Fordham is a frequent commentator on CNN, the BBC, CNBC and Bloomberg as well as Davos. Previously, she served as senior advisor in the U.K. Prime Minister's Strategy Unit and head of global political risk at Eurasia Group, where she started the firm's financial markets research business. Fordham earned her master's degree in internat