Speaker profile last updated by AAE Talent Team on 01/09/2024.
Geopolitical strategist John Sitilides, who is Senior Fellow for National Security at the Foreign Policy Research Institute and was a State Department Diplomacy Consultant under four U.S. Presidents, including Donald Trump’s first term (2017-2021), 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 incoming Trump Administration’s foreign policy, national security, international trade, and global affairs priorities and strategies for the next four years, concentrating 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’ dispassionate and non-partisan assessment of the multi-faceted geopolitical and geo-economic decisions that impact markets in 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, and delivers high-value personal enrichment on the complex issues that will dominate the global landscape for years to come.
The global economy, long based upon a rules-based trade system, is undergoing profound and fundamentally transformative shifts. Russia’s war against Ukraine is upending Europe’s security architecture, as the EU scrambles to escape its hydrocarbon dependence on Moscow, NATO seeks to prevent alliance fracturing, and Germany and the United Kingdom plan for energy rationing and possible recession. U.S.-China relations are more tense than ever over Taiwan, trade, technology, and human rights, as China seeks to dominate Asia, manage its commercial relations, and challenge U.S. global leadership, while Washington seeks closer ties with India, Japan, and Indo-Pacific powers for regional counterbalance. Beijing is emerging from a zero-COVID policy that unsettled global supply chains and thwarted economic growth. Iran’s potential nuclear weapons breakout is destabilizing the Middle East and its global oil and gas supply network. The global impact of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan is re-shaping counter-terrorism operations and may modify rare earths processing for renewable energy and other advanced technology sectors. Food shortages, energy scarcity, cybersecurity, and climate policy are increasingly shaping international decision-making.
John Sitilides is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics such as Trump & the World: The New Geopolitics of Trade, Energy, Diplomacy, and War, Washington and the World: The New Geopolitics of Great Power Competition, Washington and the World: The New Geopolitics of Great Power Rivalry, Geopolitics, Geo-Economics, and Great Power Threats to Global Supply Chains, The Big Picture: A Geopolitical and Geo-Economic Outlook and China, Russia, and America: Geopolitics & Geo-Economics in the Decade Ahead. The estimated speaking fee range to book John Sitilides for your event is $20,000 - $30,000. John Sitilides generally travels from D.C., DC, USA and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are Michael Auslin, Bernard Baumohl, Todd Buchholz, Jason Schenker and Peter Zeihan. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling John Sitilides for an upcoming live or virtual event.
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