Michael Moran
CMO | Chief Risk & Sustainability Officer
As Chief Markets Officer, Michael helps drive the firm’s brand, customer acquisition and market value. A noted writer and broadcaster on sustainability and global issues, he also leads Microshare’s risk and sustainability practices and crafts market strategy across all regions.
Michael is a former Principal and chief US/macro analyst at global risk consultancy Control Risks. Throughout his career, he has helped major corporations adjust to the advent of the digital age. He has launched successful digital offerings for the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), Roubini Global Economics, the Economist and Foreign Policy magazines, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, Renaissance Capital and other clients, and was a member of the Microsoft launch team at MSNBC.com in the mid-1990s.
Michael also lectures in political risk at the Korbel School of International Affairs at the University of Denver, a sideline that draws on a 20-plus year career as a journalist and foreign correspondent. He is also an accomplished author, award-winning documentarian and lecturer. Of his 2012 book, The Reckoning: Debt, Democracy and the Future of American Power, Ian Bremmer of Eurasia Group wrote, “Moran is a sharp thinker and fine storyteller, and The Reckoning is a terrifically engaging read.” Moran is also co-author with economist Charles Robertson of The Fastest Billion: The Story Behind Africa’s Economic Revolution, and the winner of three Emmy Awards for the Crisis Guides documentary series he conceived and produced for the Council on Foreign Relations. In 2018, he was executive producer of US-Russia Relations: Quest for Stability, which warned of the coming war in Ukraine. His work has appeared regularly on major broadcast outlets as an analyst of political risk and global affairs and has been published in The New York Times, the Financial Times, Forbes, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy magazines and many other journals. He is the proud father of three children.