ABOUT UMAIR
Hi. I’m Umair. That’s pronounced any way you like, in case you were wondering. The French say “Humair,” the Spanish say “Youmair,” the Germans say “Zhumair.” It’s all cool with me.
Welcome to my diary.
Sometimes, I’m described as one of the world’s top thinkers. I’m just a guy who likes disco, old books, and my little dog Snowy.
Here’s a formal bio for those who need one.
Umair Haque is one of the world’s leading thinkers. He’s been Chief Economist of one of the world’s largest corporations, helped reshape several industries, changed the way we think about the economy, been listed among the world’s Top 50 Thinkers, and much more.
An authoritative figure recognized around the world, with over half a million social media followers, whom he regularly teaches about economics, finance, and geopolitics, Umair’s been published in or interviewed by the world’s top media outlets, including the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Atlantic, and appeared on CNN with Fareed Zakaria, MSNBC, Vice, the BBC, and many others.
Umair’s well-known for having an extremely accurate set of predictions about the future. Here’s an abridged list of just some of Umair’s many forecasts that have come true over the years:
—The financial crisis of 2008-2009
—Trump’s first election
—Trump’s second election
—The market crash of 2025
—America collapsing and democracy declining globally
—The economic and geopolitical turmoil the world’s in now
He was Harvard Business Review’s most read author for many years, and has written several peer-reviewed books published by Harvard Business Review Press. Umair studied at McGill, London Business School, and Oxford, and has taught at Columbia, Harvard, Stanford, London Business School, and INSEAD.
