NAVIGATING THE FORCES RESHAPING THE WORLD
A LETTER FROM THE FOUNDER
How do you change the world? It’s a question I return to often—not as an abstraction, but as a filter for the work we take on and the institutions we support. Leaders today face decisions that will define competitiveness, resilience, and national capability for decades. Emergent Line exists to help them make those decisions with clarity.
My own path into this work began after a previous venture, when I confronted a simple but difficult question as I selected where to focus for the next venture: What problems and technology will define the next decade? While implementing advanced technologies within my own firm, the answer became clear. The challenge wasn’t adoption—it was understanding the structural implications of AI and positioning strategically for the world it would reshape.
I spent months engaging researchers, policymakers, founders, and investors across the U.S., Europe, and around the world. The conclusion was unmistakable: artificial intelligence—its infrastructure, its geopolitics, and its economic consequences—would become a defining force of this century. Emergent Line was created to help leaders operate from that reality.
Since 2020, our mandate has remained consistent: equip forward-thinking companies, governments, and institutional investors to apply frontier technologies responsibly, strategically, and with long-term advantage in mind. As Professor of Practice in Applied AI, and through advisory work with Fortune 500 firms and G20-level institutions, I’ve learned that technical capability is only one piece of the equation. Governance, economic foresight, operational discipline, and strategic alignment determine who succeeds.
This understanding led to the development of our AI & Geopolitical Advisory practice—supporting leaders as AI, supply chains, compute infrastructure, national policy, and global competition converge. It also paved the way for our work in Sovereign AI and the creation of Sovereign AI Finance, introduced in 2023 through the Global AI Bill of Rights initiative. The goal: help nations fund, govern, and deploy AI capability sustainably and equitably, with particular relevance for the Global South.
What you will find across this site is the outcome of years spent at the intersection of technology, business, finance, geopolitics, and economic statecraft. If you are preparing your organization for the next decade—redefining strategy, modernizing capability, or strengthening institutional resilience—we would be honored to support that work.
The future is shaped by those who choose to prepare for it.
Professor Christopher Sanchez
Founder & CEO, Emergent Line
