John Sitilides

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.

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.

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.

Sitilides probes the Trump Administration’s foreign policy, international trade, national security, and global affairs priorities and strategies for the next four years, concentrating on major shifts in U.S. worldwide tariff policies and anticipated trade negotiations; enhanced military deterrence and strategic commercial and technological competition in the “cold peace/trade war” to constrain China’s disruption of international trade and financial systems; active unconventional diplomacy to end hot wars in Ukraine and the Middle East; and aggressive increases in oil & gas production and exports.

Sitilides’ dispassionate and non-partisan assessment of the multi-faceted geopolitical and geo-economic decisions that shape and impact markets in the Western Hemisphere, 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 on the complex issues that will disrupt and dominate the global landscape for years to come.