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.

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,...

Executive Insider

Managing the winter of discontent – an essential guide for CEOs

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...

Success and Leadership

Internationalization for Development in the Global South

Success and LeadershipRadu 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...

Tech and Innovation

Emerging Markets Superclans’ NextGen Training

Tech and InnovationRadu 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...

Success and Leadership

Emerging Superclans From Emerging Europe

Success and LeadershipRadu 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...

Executive Insider

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

Executive InsiderRadu Magdin, PhD

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...

CEO Agenda

What superclan founders should make of the COVID-19 cocktail of crises

CEO AgendaRadu Magdin, PhD

The COVID-19 crisis represented a significant exogenous shock to most businesses, with the World Bank’s June Global Economic Prospects estimating the largest plunge to the world economy since 1870, with a baseline of 5.2% contraction exacerbating an economic slowdown which started the previous year. This has translated into widespread business...

CEO Insider

What Numbers Say about Challenges and opportunities for SHE-Successors in Superclans’ businesses

CEO InsiderRadu Magdin, PhD

The world has changed, and the gender gap has become a key topic not only at the societal level, but in corporate boards as well. According to Pew Research, 4.8% of Fortune 500 CEOs were women in 2018, up from 0% in 1995. Based on the same source, the share...

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Radu Magdin, PhD

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

What superclan founders should make of the COVID-19 cocktail of crises

What Numbers Say about Challenges and opportunities for SHE-Successors in Superclans’ businesses

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