Geopolitical wargaming

Copenhagen Geopolitics Club

Copenhagen Geopolitics Club was founded in 2024 to create an informal forum where executives from Nordic companies can meet for open and candid conversations on geopolitics and global risk from a business perspective.

Copenhagen Geopolitics Club
Copenhagen Geopolitics Club fosters conversations on geopolitics and global risk
Why we meet

Integrating the perspectives of geopolitics and business

The accelerating uncertainty and turmoil of recent years has shaken conventional business thinking on globalisation and international affairs. We are navigating a world that is increasingly fragmented, fragile and unpredictable. This new global environment of polycrisis, overlapping conflicts and hybrid war calls for a much closer integration between the perspectives of geopolitics and business.

The club provides a forum where business leaders can meet under informal terms to discuss with leading experts and decision makers from the field of diplomacy, politics, academia and defence.

Our approach

Wargaming "what if..."

A key barrier to fully understand the current geopolitical dynamics is the blinders of our traditional thinking. We need to expand the limits of our imagination and challenge preconceptions and biases.

Instead of traditional presentations or panel discussions, each gathering in Copenhagen Geopolitics Club uses methods from wargaming to facilitate deep conversations, explore “what if scenarios” and create new insights by pressure testing assumptions and changing perspectives.

Wargame from Copenhagen Geopolitics Club
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Join us

An informal club of peers

Copenhagen Geopolitics Club was founded in 2024 by Mikkel Vedby Rasmussen, Professor in international politics at the University of Copenhagen, Lars Henneberg, Head of Risk Management at A.P. Møller-Mærsk, and Ask Agger, CEO of Workz. These three function as the Club’s steering committee.

The member companies meet 2-3 times annually under Chatham House Rules with focus on a specific crisis or issue. Each gathering normally runs for a full day with 1-3 participants from each company and a small number of selected guests.

Copenhagen Geopolitics Club is organised by the change agency Workz, who also facilitates the gatherings.

Ask Agger

Reach out!

aa@workzchange.com +45 2210 1876
Please let us know if your company could be interested in becoming a member. Or if you have any questions on our approaches and the application of wargaming tools.
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