Dr. Joe Zammit-Lucia

With extensive experience both in the business and political worlds, Dr. Joe Zammit-Lucia is an adviser focused on business leadership in contemporary culture, and an author, public speaker, and commentator in the international press on the inter-relationship between business and politics.

His latest book is “The New Political Capitalism: How businesses and societies can thrive in a deeply politicized world” (Bloomsbury Business, 2022). Previous books have included “The Death of Liberal Democracy?” and “Backlash: Saving Globalization From Itself.”

He is a founder of RADIX – a not-for-profit public policy think tank, and the RADIX Centre for Business, Politics & Society. His executive experience spanned R&D, marketing, global brand management, strategic planning, industry economics, and public policy. He then founded his own business advisory firm with offices in Cambridge (UK), New York, and Tokyo.

He also acted as a Special Advisor to the Director-General at the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and was a member of the Dean's Advisory Board at the College of Arts, Sciences and Education, Florida International University. He is currently on the Advisory Board of the Singapore Forum for long-term investors and business leaders and an External Advisory Board Member at the CEOWORLD magazine.

Dr. Joe Zammit-Lucia is an opinion columnist for the CEOWORLD magazine. You can follow him on LinkedIn.

Executive Briefing

When ‘Purpose’ goes too far

Dr. Joe Zammit-LuciaExecutive Briefing

In 2023, Coutts, a British bank and part of the NatWest group, closed the bank account of Nigel Farage, a prominent UK political figure and now leader of Reform UK. While initially arguing that the closure was for commercial reasons, it subsequently emerged that Farage’s political views were an important factor in the bank wanting to remove him...

Global CEO Forum Executive Roundtable

The breakout of ‘free market’ hysteria

Dr. Joe Zammit-LuciaGlobal CEO Forum Executive Roundtable

The US administration has taken a 10% stake in Intel. The Pentagon (or should I now say the Department of War) has taken a $400 million preferred equity stake in a rare earth mining company. The administration is twisting corporate arms in many ways in pursuit of its political agenda....

CEO Insider

Is Globalisation Worth Saving?

Dr. Joe Zammit-LuciaCEO Insider

The current model of hyper-globalisation has run its course. It’s time to re-think – and actually do something - before the whole edifice comes crashing down. In 2018 my colleague David Boyle and I wrote a book titled Backlash: Saving Globalisation from Itself. We argued that the current form of...

CEO Insider

Rejoice! The financialization of ESG is dying

Dr. Joe Zammit-LuciaCEO Insider

It is not often that a thoughtful newspaper like the Financial Times gets it backwards. In a recent editorial, the FT examined the trend for outflows from ESG funds. It stated that ‘the lustre of ESG has largely been dimmed by politicisation.’  This is what has it exactly backwards. ESG is not a financial issue...

CEO Insider

What Has Changed? Almost Everything.

Dr. Joe Zammit-LuciaCEO Insider

Recently, after giving a keynote at a major conference about The New Political Capitalism I was asked a question: “But business has always had a political dimension. So, what has changed?” Good question. The answer – almost everything has changed. What a business is for? The first thing that has...

Executive Roundtable

Success Through Inspiration

Dr. Joe Zammit-LuciaExecutive Roundtable

Several decades ago, when I was an executive at a major pharmaceutical company, the CEO asked me to go along with him to one of the company’s manufacturing facilities where he was going to give a speech to the assembled workforce. The speech had been written for him by the...

Executive Roundtable

THE DANGERS AND OPPORTUNITIES OF ARTIFICIAL UN-INTELLIGENCE

Dr. Joe Zammit-LuciaExecutive Roundtable

There is, perhaps, no greater misnomer than Artificial ‘Intelligence’. Yet, there is little doubt that the development of machine learning systems will have implications for all of us. And many of those implications are political. When I published my book exploring the political implications of business activities, some were dismissive,...

CEO Insider

The Cleantech Revolution is Finally Here

Dr. Joe Zammit-LuciaCEO Insider

We’ve heard it for decades. We have been ‘on the brink’ of a clean industrial revolution seemingly forever. It never came. Now it’s here and, as always, driven by government policy. The threat from climate change has been the subject of conversation, activism, and often aggressive debate for decades. It...

CEO Insider

Managing the Authoritarian Business Risk

Dr. Joe Zammit-LuciaCEO Insider

China is a market of one billion consumers becoming ever most prosperous. We have to access that market. It’s where much of our future growth will come from. To access the market, we have been willing to do what it takes – embark on joint ventures, share intellectual property –...

CEO Insider

FTX – OBSOLESCENCE PRESENTED AS INNOVATION

Dr. Joe Zammit-LuciaCEO Insider

Several years ago, I was speaking to an investment manager who constantly delivered a good and steady financial performance. I asked him what his investment principles were. One of them, he said, was that he never invested in anything that was labeled as ‘exciting.’ His view was that exciting things...

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