War, Peace, and Private Equity - w/ Vance Serchuk (KKR)
Wed, 16 Sept
|Robertson Hall - Room 100
Princeton → the Senate → KKR. An hour with the man who tells a $500B firm where the world is going.
Time & Location
16 Sept 2026, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Robertson Hall - Room 100, Robertson Hall, 20 Prospect Ave, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA
About the event
Every deal now gets priced against an unstable world — wars, sanctions, export controls, elections, supply chains rerouting overnight. Most investors read the headlines; KKR built an institute. This TAG Special Session is a moderated conversation about what happens where capital meets conflict: how one of the world's largest investment firms turns geopolitical analysis into investment strategy, why defense technology went from niche to center stage, how sanctions and export controls shape the pricing of a deal, and where the world — and the people investing in it — go from here. We'll close with the question that matters most in this room: how a student gets to the intersection of technology, capital, and geopolitics.
Vance Serchuk is a Partner at KKR and the Executive Director of the KKR Global Institute, responsible for geopolitical analysis and strategy, and a member of KKR's Americas Private Equity Industrials team, where he focuses…