Ashby Monk, executive and research director of the Stanford Global Projects Center, takes us on a fascinating journey from financial geography to investment portfolio maps, with stops along the way for pension plans, innovation, ESG investing, climate change, sovereign wealth funds, tech disruption and much more.

The Take 15 Series is a collection of illuminating, short conversations with noted economists, best-selling authors, leading researchers, and successful practitioners on topics ranging from geopolitics and whistleblowing to irrationality and outlooks.