Strategic Clarity for a Changing World

Technology, capital, and geopolitics are reshaping the future

• Mark Kennedy helps leaders understand what comes next—and how to respond.
• Former Member of Congress. Former President of two public flagship universities. Director, NYU Development Research Institute. Founding Director of the Wahba Institute for Strategic Competition.
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WHY THIS MOMENT MATTERS

• Artificial intelligence has entered a new phase. It is no longer simply a software race. It is a systems race.
• Economic security now shapes national security. Infrastructure carries strategic weight. Alliances must modernize. The institutions that adapt fastest will lead.
• The systems built in this decade may shape freedom and prosperity for generations.

WHAT MARK KENNEDY OFFERS

Strategic Clarity

• Insight on AI, global competition, economic security, and institutional change.

Proven Leadership

Practical Perspective

• Frameworks leaders can use to navigate uncertainty and act with confidence.
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Immersing students in global cultures in Beijing.

Leadership begins by investing in people.

Guiding institutions through change with clarity.

CURRENT WORK

NYU's Development Research Institute

• Advancing ideas that expand opportunity, growth, and institutional strength.

NYU's Wahba Initiative for Strategic Competition

• Exploring how AI, strategic finance, trusted technology ecosystems, and democratic competitiveness are reshaping global leadership.
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FEATURED IDEAS

AI & Technology

• How intelligent systems are reshaping power, productivity, and leadership.
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Capital & Infrastructure

• Why energy, logistics, finance, and industrial capacity now determine advantage.
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Security & Alliances

• Deterrence through system coherence across military, economic, and technological domains
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RECENT WORK

• Speech: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Deterrence in the Indo-Pacific: Time, Scale, and Alliance Coherence
• Goldman Sachs Podcast: Future of US–China Technology Competition
• America Just Entered the AI Systems Race
• From Architecture to Execution: What It Will Take to Scale a Trusted AI Stack
• Beyond Iran: How Hormuz Will Shape Alliances—and America’s Standing—for Decades
• The Iran conflict is teaching the wrong lessons for the Pacific
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INVITE MARK KENNEDY

• For keynote speeches, executive briefings, media commentary, or strategic discussions.
• Recent engagements include global forums in Paris, Geneva, Doha, Tokyo, Silicon Valley and Washington, DC.
• Based in Washington, DC and New York City | Engaging Globally
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