BIO

Mujtaba (Mij) Rahman leads and oversees the firm’s analysis and advisory work on Europe, helping clients to navigate the macro-politics of Brussels and its interaction with EU member states across a wide range of policy areas. These include the politics of Europe’s response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the EU’s fiscal politics and response to the Inflation Reduction Act, the Franco-German dynamic, the EU’s management of the challenge posed by Viktor Orban’s Hungary, relations with Turkey, as well as the inter-institutional politics of and in Brussels. He also leads country analysis on the UK and France.
Prior to joining Eurasia Group, Mujtaba worked at the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs and at the UK Treasury. He is a senior visiting fellow at the London School of Economics, where he teaches political risk to graduate students. He is regularly quoted by the Financial Times, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Economist, Bloomberg, and he has written for the Financial Times, Guardian, Politico, and New Statesman.
Mujtaba, who holds master’s degrees from Columbia University and the London School of Economics and Political Science, speaks French and Urdu.