About emerge85 Initiative
Johns Hopkins University SAIS & The Delma Institute Partnership on Geo-economic Multiplicity
We are living amid a global geo-economic transformation centred on the rise of emerging markets, the growth of a new global middle class, rapid urbanisation, and unprecedented physical and technological connectivity. These trends are particularly salient in Asia, Africa, and Latin America – home to 85% of the world's population.
Fifty years ago, emerging markets accounted for about 15% of global GDP. Today, this figure is more than 50% – and rising. The centres of gravity in emerging markets – cities, multinational companies, and powerful individuals in Africa, Asia, and Latin America – are reshaping the global economic landscape. And they are not waiting for the West: They are trading with each other, investing in each other, and interacting with each other at historic levels.
To assess the impact of these important geopolitical, geo-economic, geocommercial, and geocultural shifts, emerge85 brings together a network of thinkers, practitioners, and other experts to produce original analysis through a variety of media, including digital stories, visualisations, multi-city pop-up talks, roundtables, and more.
Read more about emerge85 here.
Contact:
Afshin Molavi ('97)
Senior Fellow
