Director, Global Economist
Morning Consult is seeking a Director, Global Economist to serve as a senior subject matter expert at the intersection of economics, geopolitics, and corporate strategy. This role is a rare combination: someone who can explain why wheat prices in the American Midwest are a function of Iranian foreign policy — and make a room full of C-suite executives lean forward.
You will be the intellectual engine behind how Morning Consult's global clients — from multinational corporations to major financial institutions — understand and act on the forces reshaping the world economy. You will advise prospects and clients, develop reproducible analytical frameworks and AI-powered outputs, and build the content and thought leadership that drives Morning Consult's brand in global markets.You should be an expert in a single region of the world outside the United States - ideally EMEA or APAC- and informed about the rest of the world.
This is not a role for pure researchers or policy wonks. The right candidate brings serious academic and professional credentials and knows how to apply them commercially — translating complexity into insight, and insight into action that helps drive business outcomes.
Morning Consult is seeking a Director, Global Economist to serve as a senior subject matter expert at the intersection of economics, geopolitics, and corporate strategy. This role is a rare combination: someone who can explain why wheat prices in the American Midwest are a function of Iranian foreign policy — and make a room full of C-suite executives lean forward.
You will be the intellectual engine behind how Morning Consult's global clients — from multinational corporations to major financial institutions — understand and act on the forces reshaping the world economy. You will advise prospects and clients, develop reproducible analytical frameworks and AI-powered outputs, and build the content and thought leadership that drives Morning Consult's brand in global markets.You should be an expert in a single region of the world outside the United States - ideally EMEA or APAC- and informed about the rest of the world.
This is not a role for pure researchers or policy wonks. The right candidate brings serious academic and professional credentials and knows how to apply them commercially — translating complexity into insight, and insight into action that helps drive business outcomes.
What You'll Be Working On:
Client Advisory & Commercial Impact
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Serve as Morning Consult's senior global economic subject matter expert in client and prospect conversations, bringing credibility and dynamism to engagements with global corporate clients.
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Partner with commercial teams to advance strategic opportunities, support pitches, and strengthen long-term client relationships by connecting macroeconomic and geopolitical developments to clients' business outcomes.
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Develop reproducible analytical frameworks for global and foreign market assessments, drawing on Morning Consult's proprietary high-frequency data and external sources.
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Build and maintain AI-agent and GPT-layer outputs that scale economic and geopolitical analysis across client use cases.
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Lead original economic and geopolitical research projects, with a particular focus on how political and economic dynamics — elections, trade policy, energy geopolitics, monetary regimes — translate into business risk and opportunity.
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Collaborate with the Economics Team to ensure analytical quality, methodological rigor, and forward-looking relevance.
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Drive survey data collection efforts that shed light on complex political and economic dynamics — trade flows, monetary policy, energy markets, supply chain disruption — and distill that data into clear, actionable narratives for senior executive audiences.
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Develop and publish high-quality economic and geopolitical analysis— reports, briefings, data analyses, op-eds — that build Morning Consult's profile among global corporate and financial audiences.
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Conceive and lead webinars, client events, and media engagements that demonstrate Morning Consult's differentiated perspective on the intersection of markets, policy, and geopolitics.
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Contribute to inbound marketing strategy, with analysis designed to generate qualified leads and deepen engagement with existing clients.
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Work closely with product, marketing, and strategy teams to ensure economic and geopolitical intelligence is integrated into Morning Consult's data products and client solutions.
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Serve as an internal resource and thought partner for commercial teams navigating global economic questions in client engagements.
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Contribute to team knowledge-sharing and mentorship within the economic intelligence function.
Research, Analysis & Product Frameworks
Thought Leadership & Brand Building
Cross-Functional Collaboration
Who You Are:
7+ years of relevant experience in a research, advisory, or analytical role with demonstrated exposure to global economic and geopolitical dynamics, including professional experience conducting time series analysis
Proven ability to operate in client-facing or commercially oriented environments — you are as comfortable presenting to a boardroom as you are writing a research memo.
Strong command of macroeconomics and the ability to connect political developments — trade policy, energy geopolitics, monetary regime shifts — to real-world business outcomes.
Track record of producing high-quality written analysis that is both intellectually rigorous and accessible to non-specialist audiences.
Comfort working with data, building reproducible analytical outputs, and contributing to AI-assisted research tools.
What Would Strengthen Your Application:
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Regional expertise across Europe or APAC, preferably with in-country work experience
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Prior experience at organizations such as the World Bank, IMF, International Finance Corporation, Economist Intelligence Unit, Federal Reserve, S&P Global, or IHS Markit.
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Prior experience in the private sector a plus
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Experience developing content, hosting webinars, or building a public-facing analytical voice.
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Familiarity with survey-based economic research or proprietary datasets.
