GEOQ is our premier leadership showcase for macro strategists, geoeconomics, and specialist experts serving the emerging markets investment community.
2025's rampant ebbs and flows placed a premium on knowledge and data: on anticipating new EM risks and opportunities for clients, with sound judgment and confident tactics rooted in both rigor and experience. GEOQ highlights those professionals who got the big calls right, whose nuance won influence with clients, and laid a path for long-term trust in their strategy and institution.
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Four GEOQ Categories
For Senior EM and Globally-Focused Professionals
| Macro Strategists
Leaders from buy or sell-side macro teams who primarily focus on EM investment, across asset classes and in research, trading or sales.
| Economists
Senior economists focused on EM, trade, geoeconomics, or adjacent disciplines. Can be placed from financial firms or specialized consultancies, and likewise focus on holistic EM or country-specific mandates.
| Risk Experts
Specialists focused on building strategy at the intersection of EM investment and emerging secular and geopolitical risks, including AI, climate, or cyber.
| Data Science & Visualization
For leaders who lead the increasingly vital effort to create, visualize, and propagate expert IP, both on behalf of EM investment teams and for global audiences.
2026 Selection Criteria
Our Four Big Questions
| Ownership
Showcase specific examples of your 2025 efforts anticipated global markets' movements, their granular effects (both risks and opportunities) uncovered for EM, and the influence of those calls on your firm's short- and long-term investment strategy.
| Research
2025's dynamics posed a wild competition for ideas. Tell us about net-new research initiatives and projects within your team that helped clients navigate that terrain, and enabled your firm to command the broader EM narrative.
| Partnership
Very little in macro and economics work is valuable without a creative and integrated approach in application. Tell us about new initiatives undertaken, within and beyond your enterprise, and how they enhanced that value this year.
| Future Platform
2025 brought about (or resurfaced) notions about the global political economy, and emerging markets' role therein, that haven't been seen for decades - and yet have key impacts on investment and allocation, for today and tomorrow. How did your grounding, positioning and engagement with clients strategically prepare them for what's ahead?
