John Sitilides is Principal at Trilogy Advisors LLC in Washington, D.C., specializing in U.S. government relations, geopolitical risk, and international affairs, and Senior Fellow, National Security Program, at the Foreign Policy Research Institute.

Speech Topics: (more available tailored to industries, countries and regions)

Geopolitical Risk and Global Strategies:

My dynamic keynote presentation focuses on U.S. management of real-time global disruption and geopolitical risk concerns, challenging the traditional analyst and media consensus on the world’s most powerful political leaders in Asia, Europe, and the Middle East, their decision-making processes, and the long-term political and economic ambitions that ultimately shape the international security agenda. The clear-eyed presentation focuses on how geopolitics impact international security and global commerce, delivered using a visually-compelling slide deck of maps, graphs, and world leader portraits – and zero text or bullet points – so it is richly informative and highly engaging for all audience members.

Geopolitical Turbulence:

Geopolitical turbulence is the operative phrase for understanding foreign policy, national security, international relations and grand strategy in 2024. Whether we have entered a global pre-war era, Cold War II, or a “world at war,” as scholars, historians, and journalists have recently posted, the potential 2024 crises across the global landscape are multiple.

The global order will further fray so long as the U.S. is unable to develop a robust domestic industrial production capability within an unprecedented cycle of national debt. Without such industrial might, Washington cannot re-launch, achieve, and sustain a credible strategy of deterrence, which has already failed against Russia and Iran, and may soon be tested by China, as all three regional powers continue to whittle away at global American leadership.

Geopolitical turbulence – the operative phrase for 2024.

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Bio:

John Sitilides is Principal at Trilogy Advisors LLC in Washington, D.C., specializing in U.S. government relations, geopolitical risk, and international affairs, and Senior Fellow, National Security Program, at the Foreign Policy Research Institute.

Delivering exclusive geopolitical risk reports, webcasts, and related products and services to institutional capital market and retail clients, he is a professional speaker at 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.  He explores the complex geopolitical and geo-economic 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.

Under a U.S. government contract since 2006, Sitilides is the Southern Europe Regional Coordinator at the Foreign Service Institute, the State Department’s professional development and diplomacy academy for American foreign policy professionals. He was Board Chairman of the Woodrow Wilson Center Southeast Europe Project from 2005-2011, following seven years as Executive Director of the Western Policy Center, an international relations institute specializing in U.S., NATO and EU interests in southeastern Europe and the Middle East, until he negotiated its 2004 merger with the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

He 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, Newsmax and NewsNation, and has interviewed or cited in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, Washington Times, The National Interest, Politico, National Public Radio, Euromoney, Asia Times, Institutional Investor, South China Morning Post, and other leading print and digital media.

His domestic client portfolio includes industry leaders in real estate development, home construction and agribusiness, along with aviation and emerging technology companies, with a specialization in environmental regulatory reform and private property rights protection. He launched his career in the U.S. Senate and on a series of successful political campaigns.

Sitilides serves on the Executive Committee and Board of Trustees of Leadership 100, a national Orthodox Christian foundation. He served on the Board of Directors of 3doo, Inc., a VR/AR media technology company, and of Biovest International, developing personalized cancer immunotherapies; the Board of Directors of International Orthodox Christian Charities, a global humanitarian organization; and the Board of Governors of the Advanced Imaging Society, promoting the global motion picture industry’s arts and technologies.

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. His wife is an attorney and businesswoman, and they have four sons.

Reports & Articles:

NATO Needs to Get Serious at 75:

https://www.fpri.org/article/2024/02/nato-needs-to-get-serious-at-seventy-five/

Geopolitics of global supply chains, including the growing Middle East shipping disruptions, for the
industry journal “The Purchaser,” examining the trends and technologies impacting procurement and supply chain executives across all major industry sectors –https://www.thepurchasermagazine.com/geopolitics-supply-chain/