Fusion & Flying Cars. Deaths From Despair. Blended Reality. AI Cyber War. Super Human. WITA is pleased to have hosted noted futurist Robert Moran of Brunswick Group to discuss 20 notable global trends and risks for 2026
Featured Speakers:
Robert Moran, Partner, Brunswick Group
Moderator: Rachel Rizzo, Senior Fellow, Strategic Studies Programme, Observer Research Foundation
Speaker Biographies
Robert Moran, Partner, Brunswick Group
Robert is a Partner at Brunswick Group. He leads Brunswick Insight, our global public opinion, market research and analytics function with research teams in New York, London, Washington, Dubai, Beijing, Hong Kong, San Francisco, Munich and Dallas.
Brunswick Insight provides intelligence for market-moving decisions by combining experienced, data-driven counsel with an emphasis on rapid research and analysis. Brunswick Insight converts research into strategic advice for communications programmes and campaigns.
Robert was previously President of StrategyOne’s US operations, Edelman’s strategic research consultancy. Prior to that, Robert was Vice President at Fabrizio, McLaughlin & Associates. He began his career at political polling giant Public Opinion Strategies.
Robert is a Partner in the Washington office. He is a published thought leader and frequent speaker on trends in public opinion and market research and frequently writes on future forward subjects. He has lectured at the National War College in Washington and is a frequent contributor on Huffington Post
Rachel Rizzo, Senior Fellow, Strategic Studies Programme, Observer Research Foundation; former Nonresident Senior Fellow, Europe Center, Atlantic Council
Rachel Rizzo is a Senior Fellow with ORF’s Strategic Studies Programme. Her work focuses on US foreign and defence policy, the transatlantic partnership, and US-Europe-India relations.
Rachel was previously a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Europe Center based in Washington, DC (2021-2025); a Robert Bosch Foundation Fellow in Berlin, Germany where she served as a visiting foreign policy advisor to a member of the German Bundestag (2019-2020); and at the Center for a New American Security in Washington, DC where she served as a Research Associate (2016-2018) and was awarded the 1LT. Andrew J. Bacevich Jr. Fellowship (2018-2019), which recognizes emerging leaders who demonstrate a commitment to public service. She began her career as a Financial Analyst at Goldman Sachs working on the institutional fixed income sales desk.
Rachel often briefs senior policymakers from the United States, the European Union, and European member states. She writes for news publications as well as scholarly journals and is a frequent TV and print commentator on US national security and foreign policy, providing analysis for the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, CNN, NPR, Bloomberg, and more. She covered the 2024 US presidential election for TV as a full-time on-air political analyst.