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Insightful keynotes on geopolitical strategy and leadership

John Sitilides

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Geopolitical strategist and global risk specialist sharing his valuable insights into major political and global news

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5 out of 5 stars

An extremely well informed, knowledgeable and flexible speaker, who presented an excellent, well-rounded overview of U.S. foreign policy. He analyzed the domestic and international factors that influence foreign policy formulation and explained the Washington perspective on the most important international issues that cause instability in different parts of the world

U.S. Embassy (Nicosia) See all references

Reasons to book John Sitilides

  • He explores the complex geopolitical decisions that impact markets in Asia, Europe and the Middle East, helping corporate executives, investment managers and civic audiences understand, anticipate and mitigate risk.
  • Sitilides believes that every organization and company in any industry with international stakes can benefit from his client-specific keynote presentations, to better understand and mitigate geopolitical risk regionally or globally.
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Keynote speaker John Sitilides specializes in U.S. government affairs and geopolitical risk management. He is a diplomacy consultant to the U.S. Department of State, sharing his insights into the major political and global news stories of the day with high-stakes investor sand opinion leaders as a Keynote Speaker at corporate, investment and government conferences and events.

Reasons to book John Sitilides

  • He explores the complex geopolitical decisions that impact markets in Asia, Europe and the Middle East, helping corporate executives, investment managers and civic audiences understand, anticipate and mitigate risk.
  • Sitilides believes that every organization and company in any industry with international stakes can benefit from his client-specific keynote presentations, to better understand and mitigate geopolitical risk regionally or globally.

Since 2006, Sitilides has served as Southern Europe Regional Coordinator, under contract to the U.S. Department of State’s Foreign Service Institute, the diplomacy academy for American foreign policy professionals where he organize and direct professional development training programs since 2006.

Sitilides holds a Master’s Degree in International and Public Affairs from Columbia University He launched his career in the United States Senate and later founded and directed two international relations institutes, including the Woodrow Wilson Center Southeast Europe Project, directing policy, research & forecast analysis on U.S., NATO & EU geopolitical, commercial, and security interests throughout southeastern Europe, from 2005-2011. He is a regular media commentator on American politics and global affairs on broadcast, print and digital media, having been interviewed by major newspapers and leading U.S. and international news networks.

John tailors all his keynotes to your specific situation and audience.

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Washington and the World: The New Geopolitics of Great Power Competition

This keynote simplifies the complex geopolitical risk trends, developments, and the endless cascade of news and information that often overwhelms corporate planning and investment management, to concisely deliver the most valuable knowledge and information to audiences across the industrial, financial, technological, and commercial event spectrum.

Keynote by Speaker John Sitilides

Washington and the World: The New Geopolitics of Great Power Rivalry

The global economy, for decades based upon a rules-based trade system, is undergoing profound and fundamentally transformative shifts. China seeks to dominate and manage Asia’s commercial relations, project military power worldwide, and challenge U.S. global leadership. Russia is upending Europe’s security architecture and fracturing the European Union. Iran’s nuclear weapons breakout is destabilizing the Middle East and its global oil and gas supply network.

Energy scarcity, food shortages, cybersecurity, and climate policy are increasingly shaping international decision-making. Amid the most challenging international landscape since of the end of the Cold War thirty years ago, John Sitilides’ powerful keynote presentation delivers valuable insights, clear-eyed intelligence, and thoughtful understanding of current and future geopolitical and geo-economic trends in the near-term and over the horizon.

Against the backdrop of a visually dynamic slide deck, he simplifies complex foreign policy and international security trends and developments to concisely deliver the most valuable knowledge, information, and open-source intelligence, to help leadership audiences better understand, anticipate, and mitigate geopolitical risk in today’s disrupted industry, finance, and diplomacy landscape.

     

See John Sitilides in action

Geopolitics Keynote Presentation (Live): Royal Fidelity Bank & Trust, Grand Cayman. June 2022

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Geopolitics Keynote (Live): Lockton Global Growth Forum, Nov. 2019

 

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Interview on Russia-Ukraine war impacts on int'l security, finance, FOREX, energy & China, Feb. 2022

 

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May be the most fascinating presentation I have ever seen at an event. Global geopolitics and the impact on trade, economies, and business. This is brilliant.

Christopher Barger

Senior Communications Director Society of Manufacturing Engineers

The thoughtful, comprehensive, understandable and practical view you brought to the complex problems and issues revolving around geopolitics truly enlightened and engaged the audience at P&I’s Global Future of Retirement conference. Setting the tone on the second day of the event kept people talking, and your presentation was referred to numerous times by other speakers throughout the day.

Michael Ocrant

Director of Conference Programming Pensions & Investments, Inc.

Your maritime security presentation was absolutely fascinating and one of the most interesting presentations I have ever attended.

Hugh Craigie Halkett

Aon Risk Solutions/Global Broking Centre

Incredibly informative and phenomenal global risk presentation!

Louis D’Agostino

Iron Cove Partners

You were brilliant talking about global geopolitical risk at the Asia-Global Hedge Fund Summit in New York. Your presentation was one of the most interesting and widely-discussed. Thank you for enriching the summit!

Aradhna Dayal

Access Alts Asia

Your presentation was by far the most engaging at the RiskMinds conference. The pace of delivery was excellent for this audience: bankers with a keen interest to learn the key issues on all international hotspots.

Periklis Thivaios

True North Partners LLP

You did a great job explaining all of the very significant issues facing us from all over the world.

Greg Kushner

LIDO Consulting

You were clearly the best presenter… You have a unique gift to succinctly wrap geopolitical issues into a coherent methodology of whom, why and how.

Jan Ager Karel

Ager Consulting
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5 out of 5 stars

An extremely well informed, knowledgeable and flexible speaker, who presented an excellent, well-rounded overview of U.S. foreign policy. He analyzed the domestic and international factors that influence foreign policy formulation and explained the Washington perspective on the most important international issues that cause instability in different parts of the world

U.S. Embassy (Nicosia) See all references

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