2025 Summit Speakers

Viktor Shvets is a Global Strategist at Macquarie Capital. He is the author of “The Great Rupture – Three Empires, Four Turning Points and the Future of Humanity” published in June 2020 and “The Twilight Before the Storm – From the Fractured 1930s to Today’s Crisis Culture – How to Avoid a World on Fire”, published in August 2024.

In his almost four-decades-long investment banking career, he worked in Sydney, Melbourne, Hong Kong, London, NewYork, and Moscow at a number of global investment banks, such as Citibank, Baring Securities, Deutsche Bank, DLJ, and Lehman Brothers. Over the years, he has been a highly rated equity analyst across various disciplines and is recognized as one of the more innovative market strategists, working on the intersection between finance, technology, politics and history. He is a prolific writer on key global trends and is a frequent commentator on CNBC, Bloomberg and other media outlets.

Viktor was born in Kyiv, which at the time was the capital of the Soviet Ukraine. He attended Kyiv University of Trade before immigrating to Australia, where he completed Bachelor of Economics degree from the University of Sydney and Master of Commerce degree from the University of New South Wales. He is married with two sons and currently resides in New