Philipp Ivanov is a leading strategist and advisor on geopolitical risk and foreign policy, with two decades of executive experience across government, think tanks and universities in Australia, the United States, China and Russia.

He is the Founder and CEO of GRASP (Geopolitical Risks and Strategy Practice), a specialist advisory practice helping companies, state governments and universities and their leaders mitigate geopolitical risks and build institutional resilience. 

Philipp is an advisor to C-suites, university leaders, and senior policymakers on risk, strategy, China, and major-power competition. He brings a rare, lived perspective - having worked in China, Russia and the United States, the three powers at the core of today’s geopolitical upheaval.

A globally recognised expert on China and China-Russia relations, Philipp has been published in the New York Times, Financial Times, South China Morning Post, and Bloomberg, CNBC and The Australian Financial Review.

He co-led the Business Council of Australia’s National Asia Taskforce, and founded the Disruptive Asia series.  Previously, Philipp was Global Chief Programming Officer and Senior Fellow at Asia Society New York, where he led global strategy across 16 centres and founded the China-Russia Program. From 2015 to 2023, he was CEO of Asia Society Australia, which he transformed into Australia’s leading business and policy institution focused on Asia.
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Earlier in his career, he served as a China policy officer at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, where he co-authored Australia’s first public China Country Strategy, worked at the University of Sydney and La Trobe University. 

Philipp is currently an Industry Fellow at UTS Business School and a Visiting Scholar at Georgetown University. He holds board and advisory roles with the Foundation for Australian Studies in China, Global Women Asia, Geopolitical Strategy, and the City University of New York. He was a Fulbright Scholar in US-Australia Alliance Studies (Georgetown, 2023), Australian Government’s Endeavour Executive Fellow (China National Academy of Education Administration, 2009) and a McKinsey Executive Leadership Program alumnus. He speaks fluent Chinese and Russian.