Dr Lindsay Newman is an experienced geopolitical risk expert and thought leader. Most recently, she served as the Practice Head, Global Macro-Geopolitics at Eurasia Group. Lindsay focuses on global trend forecasting and thematic strategy, building on her decades-long experience in the political risk space. She is a frequent public speaker and contributor across television, radio, and print media, and writes the “Views on America” column for GZERO Media. Lindsay is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Lindsay was previously Head of Geopolitical Thought Leadership with S&P Global, Market Intelligence. Lindsay was a member of S&P Global’s Research Council, and co-led the Council's Diversity in Markets research lab. Lindsay has also served as a Senior Research Fellow with Chatham House in the US and Americas Programme. She began her career as a corporate lawyer working in the capital markets practice of White & Case in New York, where she advised global companies and financial institutions on capital raising activities in the debt and equity markets.

Lindsay holds a Bachelor of Arts from Yale University, graduating magna cum laude with honours with distinction in both Political Science and International Studies. She earned her Juris Doctor from New York University School of Law and her PhD in politics from the Politics Department at New York University, where her research modelled drivers of and investor response to electoral violence.

Research Interests

• Geopolitical risk
• Political risk and opportunities
• International global order and international relations
• Political violence
• Elections and electoral systems

Publications

• Views on America column, GZERO Media.
• A Pragmatic World (Re)order, S&P Global Look Forward Journal, January 2023.
• Biden may have won the election, but so much rests in Trump’s hands, The Independent, 9 November 2020.
• If Americans are to have a proper election in November, these five things have to happen, The Independent, 7 May 2020.
• Forget the tweets, read the contract, The World Today, April 2020.
• Coronavirus is going to have untold effects on the 2020 election, The Independent, 13 March 2020.
• The Democrats have set themselves up to fail in November’s election, The Independent, 20 February 2020.
• Do terrorist attacks increase closer to an election?, Terrorism and Political Violence, vol. 25, no. 1, 2013.