Geopolitical strategist John Sitilides, who is Senior Fellow for National Security at the Foreign Policy Research Institute and was a State Department Diplomacy Consultant under four U.S. Presidents, including Donald Trump’s first term (2017-2021), is a professional speaker at leading corporate, investor, and industry conferences, and before government, military, and intelligence community audiences, on geopolitical risk management and the business impacts of international security policies.
Sitilides probes the incoming Trump Administration’s foreign policy, national security, international trade, and global affairs priorities and strategies for the next four years, concentrating on the expected shifts in U.S. tariffs policy, trade negotiations, increased oil & gas production and export, reduced renewable subsidies, active diplomacy to end hot wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, and the convergence of renewed military deterrence and strategic commercial and technological competition to thwart China’s belligerent disruption of international trade and financial systems.
Sitilides’ dispassionate and non-partisan assessment of the multi-faceted geopolitical and geo-economic decisions that impact markets in Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and worldwide, using only open-source intelligence, helps corporate executives, investment managers and civic audiences better understand, anticipate, and mitigate risk, and delivers high-value personal enrichment on the complex issues that will dominate the global landscape for years to come.
The global economy, long based upon a rules-based trade system, is undergoing profound and fundamentally transformative shifts. Russia’s war against Ukraine is upending Europe’s security architecture, as the EU scrambles to escape its hydrocarbon dependence on Moscow, NATO seeks to prevent alliance fracturing, and Germany and the United Kingdom plan for energy rationing and possible recession. U.S.-China relations are more tense than ever over Taiwan, trade, technology, and human rights, as China seeks to dominate Asia, manage its commercial relations, and challenge U.S. global leadership, while Washington seeks closer ties with India, Japan, and Indo-Pacific powers for regional counterbalance. Beijing is emerging from a zero-COVID policy that unsettled global supply chains and thwarted economic growth. Iran’s potential nuclear weapons breakout is destabilizing the Middle East and its global oil and gas supply network. The global impact of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan is re-shaping counter-terrorism operations and may modify rare earths processing for renewable energy and other advanced technology sectors. Food shortages, energy scarcity, cybersecurity, and climate policy are increasingly shaping international decision-making.
Al Checchi, Checchi Capital Advisers LLC
“Your passion for and understanding of the strategic geopolitical challenges facing the United States and global community are inspiring. Your presentation was excellent.”
Randy Conone, Chief Investment Officer, MTrust
“Your talk was easily the best received one of the Family Office Wealth Management Forum.”
Richard A. Bird, President, Bird Capital Group
“Very much enjoyed your presentation - excellent poise, diction, delivery, substance, coordinated use of effective visuals, and audience connection - exemplary!”
Greg Kushner, LIDO Consulting
“You did a great job explaining all of the very significant issues facing us from all over the world.”
Jan Ager Karel, Ager Consulting
“You were clearly the best presenter…You have a unique gift to succinctly wrap geopolitical issues into a coherent methodology of whom, why and how.”
Trilogy Advisors LLC
- May 13 2016
At the core of NATO’s southeastern flank and the nexus of the Middle East, North Africa and Southern Europe, the eastern Mediterranean region a half decade ago was relatively serene. Today, the transformation of the complex political and geostrategic environment of the broader Mediterranean region, whose regular problems were generally manageable, has been stunning.
Live television interview on Greece, with its credibility at stake, awaiting its looming Eurozone deadline.
Live television interview on the Greek government's formal request for a third international bailout to help pay its debts.
Live television interview on the impact of expanding federal regulations on private property rights across the United States.
“In this time of compounded humanitarian and security crises, Greece is being pummelled by its geography,” said John Sitilides, a geopolitical strategist in Washington DC. Trapped in a geopolitical vice and with the country reeling from its longest recession in post-war history, Greece’s social fabric could easily be torn apart. “The opportunity for nativists such as Golden Dawn to further exacerbate social and economic tensions for political gain is alarmingly significant,” Sitilides said, referring to the neo-fascist party that is Greece’s third biggest political force.
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