John Sitilides

Washington & the World: The New Geopolitics of Trade, Energy, Diplomacy, and War

Geopolitical strategist John Sitilides – National Security Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute and former U.S. Department of State Diplomacy Consultant (2006-2023) under Presidents Biden, Trump, Obama, and Bush – 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, as global finance, industrial, commerce, and security sectors, along with supply chains of paramount importance to the U.S. and advanced economies of the world, have been significantly impacted and disrupted by geopolitical, geo-economic, and emerging geo-technological risk on an international scale.

Sitilides explores, explains, and simplifies the complex geopolitical inputs and factors that shape leadership decisions in Asia, Europe, and the world’s major capitals, marked by the deepening interconnectivity of global markets, as follows. He probes the Trump Administration’s current and anticipated foreign policy, international trade, national security, and global affairs priorities and strategies in the years ahead, concentrating on major shifts in U.S. worldwide tariff policies and trade negotiations, including with countries whose metals, minerals, rare earth elements and natural resources are critical to American economic, technological, industrial, and military leadership. He analyzes the strategic commercial, technological, and military competition between the U.S. and China over the next decade to constrain Beijing’s ongoing disruption of international trade systems, global supply chains, and advanced technology interoperability. He assesses the active yet unconventional diplomacy to end the Russian invasion of Ukraine that undermines and weakens the European Union and NATO alliance structures, and to secure regional and global container shipping lanes and energy exports through and from the Middle East. He evaluates projected A.I. and related advanced technology growth trends directly impacting global hydrocarbon, nuclear, and renewable energy markets.   

Sitilides’ dispassionate, non-partisan assessment of the multi-faceted geopolitical and geo-economic decisions that shape and impact global markets in the Asia, Europe, the Western Hemisphere and worldwide – using only open-source intelligence against the backdrop of a visually dynamic and highly engaging slide deck using maps, charts, graphs, world leader portraits and zero text – helps corporate & finance executives better understand, anticipate, and mitigate risk on the complex issues that will continue to disrupt and dominate the global finance, technology, resource, industry, and diplomacy landscapes for years to come.