Matters of Policy & Politics

Area 45: Anticipating Global Insecurity With Amy Zegart

Lessons learned in keeping cargo planes moving, hotel guests protected – and possibly coffee customers better served.

Matters of Policy & PoliticsMay 30, 2018
Area 45: Anticipating Global Insecurity With Amy Zegart

In a world complicated by terrorism, cyber threats and political instability, the private sector has to prepare for the unexpected. Amy Zegart, the Hoover Institution’s Davies Family Senior Fellow and co-author (along with Condoleezza Rice) of Political Risk: How Businesses And Organizations Can Anticipate Global Insecurity, explains lessons learned in keeping cargo planes moving, hotel guests protected – and possibly coffee customers better served.  

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