John Sitilides

Dynamic Geopolitical Strategist delivers high-stakes insights to help corporate executives & investment managers better understand and mitigate risk amid global disorder, financial uncertainty.

Expert on

Government Relations
Geopolitical Risk
International Affairs

Fee Range

$15,000–$30,000

Travels from

DC, US

Biography

John Sitilides is a Senior Fellow in the National Security Program at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. He is Principal at Trilogy Advisors LLC in Washington, D.C., specializing in U.S. government relations, geopolitical risk, and international affairs. 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 US 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 US, 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; the Board of Directors of International Orthodox Christian Charities, a global humanitarian organization; the Board of Directors of Biovest International, developing personalized cancer immunotherapies; 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.

Speaker Videos

GEOPOLITICAL RISK & 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.

WASHINGTON AND THE WORLD: THE NEW GEOPOLITICS OF GREAT POWER COMPETITION

“Washington and the World: The New Geopolitics of Great Power Competition” – simplifies these 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. I also continue to serve 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 I organize and direct professional development training programs since 2006.

My keynote presentation clients during the past two years of the pandemic include Lockton Global Insurance, New York Life Investments, Qualcomm, Naval Information Warfare Systems Command, National Association of Insurance Commissioners, Stable Value Investment Association, Energy Transition & Innovation Forum, Informa’s GAIM Ops hedge fund event, Pensions & Investments’ WorldPensionSummit and Fixed Income & Credit Series event. I am currently negotiating a half dozen live events for 2022, and I can send you video links of either a live onstage or virtual keynote presentation for your internal review.

In these turbulent times of global geopolitical and geo-economic risk and continued financial uncertainty, my powerful presentation can deliver to your client events valuable insights, clear-eyed intelligence, and thoughtful understanding of current and future geopolitical trends in the near-term and over the horizon.