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RANE Network
This RANE Network podcast series offers risk intelligence and analysis from industry-leading risk experts. RANE is a risk intelligence company that provides business professionals with access to critical insights, analysis, and support, enabling them to better anticipate, monitor, and respond to emerging risks and threats. In the RANE podcast series, risk management experts and thought leaders share best practices for managing business risk, geopolitical risk, physical and cyber security risks, compliance risk, and other key risks and threats that organizations face today. These podcasts empower businesses, governments, and individuals to confidently navigate an increasingly complex international environment. At RANE, we believe shared risks require shared solutions and invite you to listen in.
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Dec 12, 2023 • 17min
China’s Current Economic Outlook
In this episode of Essential Geopolitics, RANE's Global Economy Analyst, Markus Jaeger provides a rundown on China’s current economic and financial outlook.
RANE is a global risk intelligence company that delivers risk and security professionals access to critical insights, analysis and support to ensure business continuity and resilience for our clients. For more information about RANE's risk management solutions, visit www.ranenetwork.com.

Dec 12, 2023 • 25min
An Update on the Infectious Disease Landscape
In this episode of Beyond COVID, our experts discuss the three diseases that they are most concerned about for this winter.
Dr. Fred Southwick is an infectious disease specialist at the University of Florida's College of Medicine, and Dr. Bill Lang is an expert in public health responses to biological incidents. Our host, David Lawrence, is the founder of RANE.
RANE is a global risk intelligence company that delivers risk and security professionals access to critical insights, analysis and support to ensure business continuity and resilience for our clients. For more information about RANE's risk management solutions, visit www.ranenetwork.com.

Dec 9, 2023 • 1h 19min
A Conversation with Adam Robinson: The Strategy behind Investing, Chess, and the SATs
In this episode, David Lawrence interviews Adam Robinson, President of Robinson Global Strategies. They discuss his investing philosophy, analyzing errors and lessons learned, teaching chess to young children, finding loopholes, unconventional strategies in financial markets, and lasting lessons and decision-making strategies.

Dec 8, 2023 • 16min
Europe’s Shifting Relationship with China
Over the past year, the European Union and some of its member states have taken bold steps to recalibrate their strategies in dealing with China. In June, Brussels unveiled its first-ever economic security strategy which, while never mentioning China explicitly, has heavily implied it as the main target. Germany followed in July with its first ever China Strategy, which explicitly focuses on cutting dependency on the Chinese market and restricting sensitive technology transfers to Beijing. In October, the EU launched an anti-subsidy investigation into Chinese electric vehicles and Italy just announced its formal exit from China’s Belt and Road Initiative.
In this episode of Essential Geopolitics, RANE’s Europe Analyst, Matteo Ilardo explores how these moves, from protectionist measures to economic-security adjustments, are shaping Europe’s relations with Beijing.
RANE is a global risk intelligence company that delivers risk and security professionals access to critical insights, analysis and support to ensure business continuity and resilience for our clients. For more information about RANE's risk management solutions, visit www.ranenetwork.com.

Nov 15, 2023 • 9min
Biden’s AI Executive Order
President Biden released an executive order requiring the developers of artificial intelligence systems that pose a serious risk to national security, national economic security, or national public health and safety to notify the U.S. government and share the results of a red-team safety review prior to their public release. In this episode of Essential Geopolitics, RANE’s Cyber Analyst Ali Plucinski discusses the potential implications of the order for companies that use AI systems in their daily operations.
RANE is a global risk intelligence company that delivers risk and security professionals access to critical insights, analysis and support to ensure business continuity and resilience for our clients. For more information about RANE's risk management solutions, visit www.ranenetwork.com.

Nov 14, 2023 • 36min
The Importance of Due Diligence Research
In this episode of the RANE Insights podcast, RANE co-founder David Lawrence speaks with Forhad Razzaque about his work in the due diligence space.
Forhad Razzaque is the President of Integras Intelligence, Inc., a highly respected firm offering due diligence, employment screening and investigative services. Forhad is widely recognized in the industry for his ability to develop long-term partnerships with clients and for his dedication to customer needs.
RANE is a global risk intelligence company that delivers risk and security professionals access to critical insights, analysis and support to ensure business continuity and resilience for our clients. For more information about RANE's risk management solutions, visit www.ranenetwork.com.

Nov 7, 2023 • 10min
Essential Geopolitics: The Geopolitical Implications of the Israel-Hamas Conflict for Asian Nations
Geopolitical implications of Israel-Hamas conflict for Asian nations. Shifting position of China. Response of Japan and South Korea. Geopolitical implications for Southeast Asia. Thailand's kidnapped nationals, Malaysia's negotiation efforts, contrasting stances of Muslim-majority countries.

Oct 28, 2023 • 30min
Everything You Need to Know about the Newest COVID Strain: EG.5
In this episode, infectious disease specialist Dr. Fred Southwick and public health expert Dr. Bill Lang discuss the characteristics of the EG variant and compare it to Omicron. They also debate whether young healthy people should receive booster vaccines and emphasize the importance of vaccination for older individuals and those with health issues. Additionally, they explore the significance of the RSV vaccine for pregnant women and its prevention of RSV infections in newborns, as well as the effectiveness of the COVID-19 vaccine for different age groups.

Oct 25, 2023 • 46min
How Should Organizations Approach Geopolitical Risk?
In this episode of the RANE Insights podcast, RANE co-founder David Lawrence interviews Scott Atran, a leading global geopolitical, national security and terrorism lecturer, author, and government advisor.
Scott Atran is an anthropologist and psychologist who studies how cognitive constraints and biases in cultural preferences and values shape social structures and political systems. He is co-founder of ARTIS International and the Centre for the Resolution of Intractable Conflict at the University of Oxford, research professor at the University of Michigan’s Gerald Ford School of Public Policy, research fellow at Oxford University’s Changing Character of War Centre, and advisor to the UN Security Council on Counterterrorism on issues of youth, peace, and security.
RANE is a global risk intelligence company that delivers risk and security professionals access to critical insights, analysis and support to ensure business continuity and resilience for our clients. For more information about RANE's risk management solutions, visit www.ranenetwork.com.

Oct 24, 2023 • 5min
Somalia’s Security Outlook
The African Union Transition Mission in Somalia (ATMIS) is expected to withdraw its troops from the Horn of Africa nation by December 2024. They have been carrying out counter terrorism operations against al-Qaeda affiliate group, al-Shabaab, that has been active in Somalia for over a decade and still continues to target security forces and civilians. In this episode of Essential Geopolitics, RANE’s Global Security Analyst, Hellen Muzungu explains the circumstances surrounding this transition.
RANE is a global risk intelligence company that delivers risk and security professionals access to critical insights, analysis and support to ensure business continuity and resilience for our clients. For more information about RANE's risk management solutions, visit www.ranenetwork.com.


