{"id":606870,"date":"2026-05-27T15:59:43","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T15:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/606870\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T15:59:43","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T15:59:43","slug":"tony-blairs-consultancy-doubles-down-on-ai-and-restructures-in-europe-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/606870\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony Blair\u2019s consultancy doubles down on AI and restructures in Europe \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Tony Blair Institute, of which Blair is executive chairman, is &#8220;evolving&#8221; its &#8220;operating model as we focus on governing in the age of AI,&#8221; it said in a statement shared with POLITICO.<\/p>\n<p>The firm is preparing a restructuring that will also affect its Brussels office, which it set up in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>The consultancy is &#8220;conducting an ongoing organisational review to reshape and restructure,&#8221; the statement said in response to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.themorningintelligence.uk\/tony-blair-institute-ai-overhaul-staff-redundancies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">report<\/a> that it would cut staff as it pivots towards AI.<\/p>\n<p>The firm will keep a presence in the EU capital to support the work of Andreea Zugravu, a former McKinsey partner who was appointed managing director for Europe earlier this year, the statement said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Tony Blair Institute, of which Blair is executive chairman, is &#8220;evolving&#8221; its &#8220;operating model as we focus&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":606871,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,2453,146,86,18638,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-606870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-innovation","tag-intelligence","tag-technology","tag-tony-blair","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=606870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/606871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}