John Sitilides
John Sitilides on Globalization
John Sitilides
Keynote Speaker
Former National Security Senior Fellow, Senior Fellow for Global Risks at the Center for the National Interest; State Department Diplomacy Consultant (2006-2023); Expert on Geopolitical Risk, Global Affairs, and American Politics
John Sitilides is a Washington D.C. geopolitical risk, international relations, and government affairs specialist who explores and explains the complex geopolitical and geo-economic decisions that impact markets in Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and worldwide, helping corporate executives, investment managers, industry leaders, and civic audiences better understand, anticipate, and mitigate risk across an increasingly uncertain security, trade, and finance landscape.
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John Sitilides is Principal at Trilogy Advisors LLC in Washington, D.C., specializing in geopolitical risk, international security, and federal government affairs, and is Senior Fellow for Global Risks at the Center for the National Interest.
He is a professional speaker at corporate, investor, and industry conferences, and before government, military, and intelligence community audiences, on geopolitical and geo-economic risk management and the business impacts of national security policies. He explores the complex decisions that impact markets in Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and worldwide, helping corporate executives, investment managers, and civic audiences better understand, anticipate, and mitigate risk.
From 2006 to 2023, he was a U.S. Department of State Diplomacy Consultant under Presidents Biden, Trump, Obama, and Bush, managing professional development at the Foreign Service Institute, the diplomacy academy for American foreign policy professionals.
He served as Senior Fellow for National Security at the Foreign Policy Research Institute and was Board Chairman of the Woodrow Wilson Center Southeast Europe Project, following seven years as Executive Director of the Western Policy Center, an international relations institute specializing in U.S., NATO, and EU interests in Europe and the Middle East, where he negotiated its 2004 merger with the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
He launched his career in the U.S. Senate, has testified before Congress, and is a frequent national security commentator on U.S. and international media such as Bloomberg News, CNN, FOX News, CNN International, and NewsNation. He has been interviewed or cited in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Washington Times, Newsweek, The National Interest, Politico, NPR, Asia Times, Institutional Investor, South China Morning Post, and other leading print and digital media.
Sitilides serves on the Executive Committee of Leadership 100, a national Orthodox Christian endowment, and the National Hellenic Society. He served on the Board of Directors of an immersive media technology company and an immunotherapy biopharmaceutical company; International Orthodox Christian Charities, a global humanitarian organization; and the Advanced Imaging Society, which promotes the global motion picture industry’s arts and technologies.
He is a member of the Intelligence and National Security Alliance, the Columbia University Club of Washington, D.C., and the Association of Former Senate Aides. He holds a master’s degree in International and Public Affairs from Columbia University, specializing in International Security Policy and Western European Affairs. His wife is an attorney and businesswoman, and they have four sons.
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Geopolitics in a World Re-Ordered: Trade, Technology, Energy & Markets
Geopolitical strategist John Sitilides – Former National Security Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute and former U.S. Department of State Diplomacy Consultant (2006-2023) under Presidents Bush, Obama, Trump & Biden – is a professional speaker at leading corporate, investor, and industry conferences, and before government, military, and intelligence community audiences, on geopolitical and geo-economic risk management and the business impacts of international security policies.
What Your Client Audiences Will Gain:
My presentation examines the Trump Administration’s sweeping foreign policy reset, including:
- Strategic dominance of the Western Hemisphere
- Technology competition and military deterrence against China’s disruption of trade and financial systems
- U.S. tariff policies and global commerce impacts
- New security architectures and trade ties in the Middle East and Europe
- Supply chain security and protected shipping lanes; and
- Advanced technology impacts on energy, rare earth, and commodity markets.
My dispassionate and non-partisan assessments, delivered through a visually dynamic presentation using open-source intelligence, maps, charts, and leader portraits – with zero text – equips executives and investors to understand, anticipate, and mitigate the complex risks that will disrupt and dominate the global landscape for years to come.
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