Radu Magdin

Radu Magdin is a global analyst and consultant, former prime ministerial advisor in Romania and Moldova. He writes on global leadership and communications. He is, since 2012, Chief Executive Officer of Smartlink Communications, where he advises people and organisations on how to best manage crisis and reputations, and is a well know analyst at home and abroad, having being widely quoted as an expert by global media. Radu Magdin is an opinion columnist for the CEOWORLD magazine. Follow him on Twitter or connect on LinkedIn.

Special Reports

Global Success: The Case of Lebanese Superclans

Radu MagdinSpecial Reports

Phoenician Legacy: For the past thirty or so years, headlines concerning Lebanon have more often than not been occupied by the tragic, the unsettling, and what may be euphemistically described as the concerning. More recently, Lebanon's ongoing economic crisis and political turmoil have put the worse front and center: GDP declined by 21% in 2020...

Money and Wealth

What Active Diasporas Can Do For The Country And The Other Way Around

Radu MagdinMoney and Wealth

The Role of a Diaspora: As a former member of the Romanian diaspora, the 5th largest diaspora in the world in absolute terms and the largest in percentage terms in the OECD, I can wholeheartedly say that a country’s diaspora is one of the most overlooked means of support to a country's development. For...

Money and Wealth

Old Money and New Money in Central and Eastern Europe

Radu MagdinMoney and Wealth

A Look at CEE current and future Superclans: how does Old Money and New Money coexist in Central and Eastern Europe? The Historical Context The history of capitalism in Central and Eastern Europe differs markedly due to the rupture created by the communist period. As with most of the world,...

Executive Insider

Managing the winter of discontent – an essential guide for CEOs

Radu MagdinExecutive Insider

Everyone is having a hard time these days. The fourth, very contagious wave of the pandemic is the proof that, despite expectations, it will take some time until life goes back to normal. The optimism associated with the discovery of the COVID-19 vaccine and the vaccine rollout is unfortunately behind...

Success and Leadership

Internationalization for Development in the Global South

Radu MagdinSuccess and Leadership

Growth and Development: The emerging Global South, as heterogeneous a place as the term allows, has mostly been joined by the fact that it is primarily characterized by perceived underdevelopment coupled with rapid economic growth. That rapid economic growth has made some forecasters lump together quite different economic profiles where...

Tech and Innovation

Emerging Markets Superclans’ NextGen Training

Radu MagdinTech and Innovation

Traditionally, most prominent families are underpinned by a family office. Often offering everything from estate planning to investment advice, the people serving the family are often as important as the management of companies they own. An institution in its own right, the lightly regulated family office has nevertheless remained surprisingly...

Success and Leadership

Emerging Superclans From Emerging Europe

Radu MagdinSuccess and Leadership

The Best of Times The past 30 years have been a golden age of global prosperity (although, to be fair, the same can be said about inequality). As the Third Wave of Globalization physically spread global value chains across the world, the Third Industrial Revolution digitally interconnected that world into...

Lifestyle and Travel

The American growth and the role of its tech superclans

Radu MagdinLifestyle and Travel

Compared to, say, Chinese and Russian elites, America’s upper crust has some enviable advantages. Not only are their business concerns primarily concentrated in what remains the world’s largest individual market and one of the safest regulatory regimes, but they also has access to the most liquid and well-developed equity and...

Lifestyle and Travel

What Wealthy Families In The 2020s Can Learn From The 1920s

Radu MagdinLifestyle and Travel

As, perhaps, a note to future generations, The Great Gatsby ends with the narrator looking across the bay towards the green light of the eponymous character’s erstwhile love and source of eventual downfall. Besides Dickensian comments on class, lies the beguiling simple note that periods of great exuberance often end...

Executive Insider

A framework for superclans to operate amid crises in the 2020s

Radu MagdinExecutive Insider

Even in the context of the positive news about the vaccine, the prolonged pandemic is a major source of uncertainty and this affects the entire society, including the business sector. Amid uncertainty and crises, there is a desperate need to project stability and, given the massive changes we have seen...

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Radu Magdin

Global Success: The Case of Lebanese Superclans

What Active Diasporas Can Do For The Country And The Other Way Around

Old Money and New Money in Central and Eastern Europe

Managing the winter of discontent – an essential guide for CEOs

Internationalization for Development in the Global South

Emerging Markets Superclans’ NextGen Training

Emerging Superclans From Emerging Europe

The American growth and the role of its tech superclans

What Wealthy Families In The 2020s Can Learn From The 1920s

A framework for superclans to operate amid crises in the 2020s

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