John Sitilides is a geopolitical speaker specializing in U.S. government relations, geopolitical risk, and international affairs, and is a National Security Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute.

He is a brilliant geopolitical strategist and speaks at conferences globally on geopolitical risk management and the business impacts of international security policies.

John examines the geopolitical and geo-economic factors affecting markets in Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. He assists corporate executives, investment managers, and civic audiences in understanding and mitigating risks.

He served as Southern Europe Regional Coordinator at the Foreign Service Institute under four U.S. Presidents and has testified before Congress, frequently appearing as a national security commentator in major media outlets.

His clients include leaders in real estate, construction, agribusiness, aviation, and technology, focusing on environmental regulatory reform and private property rights, and he began his career in the U.S. Senate and political campaigns.

He is a member of the Association of International Risk Intelligence Professionals, the Intelligence and National Security Alliance, the Columbia University Club of Washington, D.C., the Empire State Forum, and the Association of Former Senate Aides. Sitilides holds a Master’s Degree in International and Public Affairs from Columbia University.

TALK TOPIC:

“Trump & the World: The New Geopolitics of Trade, Energy, Diplomacy, and War”

Sitilides probes the incoming Trump Administration’s foreign policy, national security, international trade, and global affairs priorities and strategies for the next four years.

He concentrates 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’ delivers dispassionate and non-partisan assessment of the multi-faceted geopolitical and geo-economic decisions that impact markets in Asia, Europe, the Middle East.

He 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.