Nader Mousavizadeh

Nader Mousavizadeh

Founding Partner & CEO, Macro Advisory Partners

Nader Mousavizadeh is the Founding Partner and CEO of Macro Advisory Partners. Nader has spent the past 20 years in leadership positions in global institutions at the intersection of geopolitics, policy and markets. Prior to founding MAP, he was Chief Executive of Oxford Analytica (2000-2013), a leading global analysis and advisory firm. Previously, he was an investment banker at Goldman Sachs, where he worked in the mergers and acquisitions group in New York and London.

Before entering the private sector, Nader served at the United Nations where he was Special Assistant to the Executive Office of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan from 1997-2003, and a UN political officer in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Nader is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College and a Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford where he received his M.Phil. in international relations from Christ Church College. He received his MBA as a Sloan Fellow at the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Nader is a widely published contributor of essays to The Financial Times, The New York Times and Foreign Policy. In 2012 Nader co-authored, with Kofi Annan, Interventions: A Life in War and Peace, and is the editor of the Black Book of Bosnia, published in 1996.

Nader is a member of the global board of directors for the World Resources Institute. He is a member of the European Council on Foreign Relations, a member of the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Global Future Council on Geopolitics and was elected by the WEF as a Global Leader for Tomorrow.