Arne Elias Corneliussen is the founder, chief executive officer and chairman of NRCI. He formed NRCI in 2010. He received his bachelor of arts in political science from Wittenberg University in Ohio in 1998. He studied at the American University in Cairo (AUC) in Egypt in 1996. He then returned to the US where he mapped Islamist movements from Morocco to the Philippines at the Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, D.C in 1998. He lived in Santiago, Chile in 1999 where he examined South America’s political situation, economic development, drug cartels in Colombia and strategic relations between South America, North America and Europe. He completed a Master of Arts in International Relations and a Master of Public Administration (MPA) at the Maxwell School at Syracuse University in New York in 2000. He worked as an officer for the Norwegian Armed Forces during NATO’s operation in Kosovo from 2001 until 2002. Since 2002 he held different roles in the corporate sector in Norway including sales, international business development and recruitment services. Arne Elias Corneliussen is a Fellow in the Royal Geographical Society in London.

Arne Elias Corneliussen regularly conducts long fact-finding expeditions where he maps political, security and business risks, infrastructure, local conditions and expands NRCI’s global network with local contacts. He travelled on 10 fact-finding expeditions to 42 countries in Africa and he crossed nearly 30 countries on the African continent by bus. In the fall of 2017 he travelled on an expedition by train, bus and shared taxis from Shanghai across China, Central Asia and the Caucasus to Istanbul to map infrastructure developments, logistical clusters and the geopolitical landscape along the One Belt One Road – the New Silk Road developed by China. In the fall of 2022, he travelled alone by bus and train across 19 countries in eastern, southern, and western Europe. During this fact-finding expedition he examined geopolitical and strategic dynamics, and more broadly he analyzed the future of Europe.

Arne Elias Corneliussen also serves as the program chair, moderator and keynote speaker at Norwegian Risk Forum – NRCI’s annual international conference focusing on geopolitical risks and international business opportunities. He is also the host and anchor on Global Horizon – NRCI’s YouTube Channel, which provides three NRCI original video series: Asian Horizon, Geopolitical Horizon and African Horizon. In these video series he examines geopolitical developments, economic and financial opportunities and security dynamics.