GlobalStrat is a geopolitical risk and security consultancy firm with a regional specialization on Europe, the Middle East and Africa, where it has built a reliable and extensive source network.
GlobalStrat clients include governments in Europe, Africa and the Middle East along large multinationals, Sovereign Wealth Funds, asset managers and large law firms.
Nowadays, more than ever, geopolitics and security are key to the business world. Our financial and management background allows us to bring you Foreign Affairs and Security with a business edge.
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GlobalStrat is a Strategic Partner of renowned Security Boutique Firm Burrill Green.
Biography of Olivier Guitta, CEO and Founder of GlobalStrat
Olivier Guitta is the Managing Director of GlobalStrat, a geopolitical risk and security consultancy firm with a regional specialisation on Europe, the Middle East and Africa, where he has built a reliable and extensive source network.
Olivier has been ranked in the Top 250 terrorism experts in the world, Top 500 National Security and Top 500 Maghreb experts.
He has briefed the UK Home Office, the UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office, the European Union, the United States Congress, NATO, the Swedish, the Belgian Foreign Ministry and the UAE Foreign and Defence ministries, as well as US presidential candidates, SOCOM and Europol. He has addressed the US Congress, the Parliaments of the United Kingdom, the European Union and Bosnia. He is a regular speaker at international security conferences and has lectured at the National Defense University and the Joint Special Operations University.
His clients include governments in Europe, Africa and the Middle East along large multinationals, Sovereign Wealth Funds, asset managers and large law firms. He regularly briefs Chief Security Officers from the largest companies in the world.
His writings on geopolitics and security issues have been published in a range of prestigious outlets, including The Times, Le Monde, Newsweek, Fortune, Forbes, The Daily Beast, World Affairs, Weekly Standard, Jane’s Weekly, National Post, National Interest, The National, Valeurs Actuelles, Le Temps (Switzerland).
Olivier is also a Columnist for the Dubai-based Akhbar and al-Aan TV.
Olivier appears very often on numerous international broadcast outlets including the BBC, CNN, Sky News, NBC, CNBC, ITN, ABC Radio, France 24, Canadian TV, Fox News and NPR.
Olivier is also very often cited in numerous outlets, including Reuters, AP, AFP, Bloomberg, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, The Times, The Telegraph, The Mail, Time, Newsweek, Sky News, RFI, NBC News, CNBC, Fox News, The Daily Beast, The Australian, Euro Money, Le Figaro, Liberation, RTL, Le Parisien, L’Obs, Le Point, Europe 1.
He was until July 2014 the Director of Research at the Henry Jackson Society, a British foreign policy think tank, where he was responsible for setting the strategic agenda for the research department and overseeing the Society’s academic focus, as well as conducting his own research on geopolitics in the MENA region.
Born in Morocco, raised in Spain and France and educated in Cologne and Paris, Olivier spent twelve years, working as a Portfolio Manager for two financial firms in the USA. Following the attacks of September 11th 2001, he left the world of finance to work as a geopolitics and risk analysis consultant for large multinationals and governments alike first in Washington DC and then France, before joining The Henry Jackson Society in London in 2013.
Their opinion on Olivier Guitta, GlobalStrat's CEO
“I have been liaising with Olivier for over a year, discussing his analysis of various regions of interest. I have found his knowledge of these regions second to none, and the work product he shared extremely well researched and of the highest professional quality. Olivier is an energetic analyst with a wealth of knowledge and local contacts. I am always impressed with his reports, easy reads, coupled with accurate representation of the local situation.”
— Paul Barker, Regional Security Advisor - EEMEA at Chevron Corporation
“Olivier Guitta has an in-depth expertise in global security issues and is a hugely well-informed source and resourceful. Olivier’s geopolitical expertise shows a deep understanding of the security concerns in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. His briefs on the region help me as a journalist to have a much better understanding of the issues being faced. His analysis of Islamic State and its exporting of terrorism to mainland Europe has been invaluable in a number of subsequent articles.”
— Robert Mendick, Chief Reporter at The Telegraph
“Olivier brings a wealth of insights to the study of terrorism and counterterrorism. His unique ability to navigate multiple cultural contexts in Europe and elsewhere makes him an invaluable resource in understanding the nuances and underlying sources of today’s homegrown terrorist threat”
— James Forest, Professor & Director of Security Studies, University of Massachusetts Lowell
“Olivier Guitta consistently contributes as a thought leader in the global security arena. Olivier is a brilliant geopolitical expert with a deep and profound understanding of the EMEA. His briefs on the region provide the professional analyst and the lay reader the necessary tools to identify the dynamic political trends as well as the more static cultural undercurrents that define today’s - and tomorrow’s - events. Olivier is an excellent analyst on geopolitical international events, with a keen eye for issues and the ability to deliver timely and in-depth demarches on matters of deep importance but not really covered. He gets a great deal of information from a wide range of impressive sources and presents the results in crisp, efficient prose. He is, in short, a great resource for western policy-makers, particularly those interested in the crescent from North Africa to Central Asia.”
— Jane Corbin, Senior Reporter BBC Panorama
“Olivier is a leading analyst of political violence. I have benefitted greatly from his analytical insight and productivity”
— James M. Dorsey, Senior Fellow at S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
“Olivier delivers concise, thought-provoking insights across a spectrum of global security risk issues. Each time Olivier pens a new article, its the top of my reading list.”
— Karl Mattson, Senior Vice President, Technology Risk at PNC
“I have had the pleasure to work with Olivier in the past and was impressed by his deep level of knowledge and understanding of geopolitical security and risk issues. I was later even more impressed by his ability to interpret and explain to less-initiated audiences the complexities of the world that we live in and have been ever since a loyal follower of Olivier’s frequent TV interviews and print articles. A true expert with few peers.”
— Ivo Ilic Gabara, President at Gabara Strategies Ltd
