Ian McCluskey
Head of Thought Leadership
Ian showcases the talents of senior executives through thought leadership by developing and publishing bylined articles, and leveraging those articles into seminars, webinars and other speaking engagements. Ian pursued an independent career in January 2010, after one year as Director of Thought Leadership at Kroll, a global risk consultancy.
Ian serves on the board of the Miami Finance Forum and is the Thought Leadership Chair on the board of OWIT, the Organization of Women in International Trade. Ian is also a member of the Thunderbird Global Council at the Thunderbird School of Global Management and is past chair of the Executive MBA Advisory Council at Florida International University’s College of Business.
Prior to joining Kroll in January 2009, Ian spent four years as Publisher of WorldCity Business magazine, a publication focused on South Florida's multinational business community. Before WorldCity, Ian was Editor-in-Chief and Publisher of AmericaEconomía, the most prestigious Latin American business publication in the region, formerly owned by Dow Jones.
Ian got his start in the media business in the late 1980s in Brazil, as Managing Editor and part-owner of BrazilWatch, a political and economic newsletter, in Brasilia, Brazil. He later spent five years as Latin America correspondent for Time magazine, based in Brazil, and one year as the Sao Paulo Bureau Chief for Bloomberg News.
Ian lived nearly 20 years in Latin America. He began his career there as a foreign debt negotiator for Canada's Export Development Corp. and spent three years as a Canadian diplomat in Brasilia. Ian has a BA in International Relations from the University of Toronto and an MBA from The Thunderbird School of Global Management.
Ian is fluent in English, Spanish, Portuguese and French.
