Michael Moran

CMO & Director of Risk & Sustainability at Microshare.io

Michael Moran drives the firm’s brand, reputation, customer acquisition and market value by emphasizing that the company and its senior executives are a transformational force with the unique capacity to safeguard and optimize their client’s global operations. Moran, who also leads Microshare’s ESG/Sustainability practice, is a noted writer and broadcaster on sustainability and global issues and also hosts Microshare’s ground-breaking podcast, Manifest Density.

Moran is a former Principal and chief US/macro analyst at global risk consultancy Control Risks. Throughout his career, Moran has spent helped major corporations adjust to the advent of the digital age. He has launched successful offerings for the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), Roubini Global Economics, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, Renaissance Capital and other clients, and was a member of the Microsoft launch team at MSNBC.com.

Based in Denver, Moran also lectures in political risk at the Korbel School of International Affairs, 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. 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 and Foreign Policy magazines and many other journals.

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