Marko Papic

Marko Papic is a geopolitical expert and author of "Geopolitical Alpha: An Investment Framework for Predicting the Future," a book that introduces his constraints-based framework to investors. He provides bespoke research to clients and partners on geopolitics, macroeconomics, and markets. His background includes Clocktower Group, an alternative asset management firm based in Santa Monica, California, leading the firm’s Strategy Team and seeded macro hedge funds. At BCA Research he founded BCA Research’s Geopolitical Strategy practice (GPS) in 2012, the financial industry’s first dedicated political analysis investment strategy. The GPS service generated geopolitical alpha by identifying gaps between the market’s political expectations and the firm’s forecasts.

Papic began his career as a Senior Analyst at Stratfor, a global intelligence agency where he contributed to the firm’s global geopolitical strategy as well as its analyst recruitment and training program. In his academic work, he helped create the Center for European Union Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Papic holds an MA in Political Science from the University of Texas at Austin and an MA from the University of British Columbia.

Born in Belgrade, Serbia, he has lived in Iraq, Jordan, Switzerland, Canada, and the U.S. When he isn’t writing research, you can find him coaching his kids’ basketball games or playing with locals on the neighborhood court.