Radu Magdin, PhD

Radu Magdin, CEO at Smartlink Communications, is a global analyst, consultant, trainer and think tanker. He worked as an honorary advisor to the Romanian Prime Minister (2014-2015) and advised the Moldovan PM (2016-2017) on various strategic issues, from political strategy and communications to reforms implementation and external affairs. Radu is a NATO Emerging Leader with the Atlantic Council of the US (2014), a Forbes Romania Trendsetter (2014), and a Warsaw Security Leader (2015). Magdin, who has a Ph.D. in Resilience to Russian Information Operations, is a widely quoted analyst by global media; he has taught, since 2019, with Romania’s SNSPA, “Global Competition and Strategic Communications” respectively "Global Communication Campaigns", courses with a special focus on great power competition and its impact on global players and communications. Radu is coauthor of the Naumann Foundation's 2021 "Playbook on Liberal Leadership and Strategic Communications in the Covid-19 Era" and will be publishing, in 2024, his first book, "Global Europe and Global Romania as Crisis Solutions".

Radu Magdin is an Executive Council member at the CEOWORLD magazine. You can follow him on LinkedIn.

CEO Explainers

C-Suite’s 2024 Challenge: Culture War Management

CEO ExplainersRadu Magdin, PhD

In today's rapidly evolving landscape, culture wars have become a defining feature of our times. These battles over values and beliefs have transcended political boundaries and seeped into public discourse, leaving no corner of society untouched. From the frenetic frenzy of the 2024 U.S. presidential elections to boardrooms worldwide, the...

Special Reports

Global Success: The Case of Lebanese Superclans

Special ReportsRadu Magdin, PhD

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

Money and WealthRadu Magdin, PhD

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

Money and WealthRadu Magdin, PhD

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,...

Chief Executive Insider

Managing the winter of discontent – an essential guide for CEOs

Chief Executive InsiderRadu Magdin, PhD

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...

CEO Perspectives

Internationalization for Development in the Global South

CEO PerspectivesRadu Magdin, PhD

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...

Big Business

Emerging Markets Superclans’ NextGen Training

Big BusinessRadu Magdin, PhD

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...

CEO Perspectives

Emerging Superclans From Emerging Europe

CEO PerspectivesRadu Magdin, PhD

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

Lifestyle and TravelRadu Magdin, PhD

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

Lifestyle and TravelRadu Magdin, PhD

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...

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CEOWORLD magazine

Radu Magdin, PhD

C-Suite’s 2024 Challenge: Culture War Management

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

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