GEOPOLITICAL RISK · BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE · SECURITY ADVISORY

Geopolitical risk intelligence for companies, financial firms and governments

Human-source intelligence from Europe, the United States, the Middle East and Africa, read for what it means to your position, your people and your plans.

Trusted by governments, financial institutions, multinationals and leading law firms

  • McKinsey & Company
  • European Commission
  • UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
  • EY
  • Government of Sweden
  • Government of Belgium
  • Abu Dhabi Investment Council (ADIC)

The record, in public

Every prediction we publish, and what happened next.

Most advisory firms tell you afterwards that they saw it coming. We publish the call, the date it was made, every scenario we weighted at the time, and what happened next.

What we do

A trade war closes a supply route.
Finance reads it as a new range to plan against.
Strategy reads it as one market closing and another opening.
Security barely reads it at all.

The same event never means one thing, so we read it for every part of your business.

  • Ongoing Advisory

    A standing read on your exposure, as it changes.

  • Regional and Thematic Briefs

    The answer you need before a decision with a date on it.

  • Country and Security Risk Assessments

    Where you are exposed, and where the opportunity is.

  • In-Person Executive Briefings

    Your board hears it first hand, and asks its own questions.

If geopolitics never used to touch your business, it does now

Wars, sanctions and trade disputes have made geopolitics a material risk for mid-sized organisations that never used to think about it. Most still make those calls on the same headlines and country reports as their competitors.

Our founder, Olivier Guitta, on what changes when your read is built around your own exposure, and the record behind it. Three minutes.

Our own analysis

A read on what is likely to come next, and what it could mean for your plans.

We write about where risk is easing as often as where it is building, because when one market closes another one opens.

What clients say

Olivier delivers concise, thought-provoking insights across a spectrum of global security risk issues.”

Karl MattsonSenior Vice President, Technology Risk, PNC

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.”

Paul BarkerRegional Security Advisor EEMEA, Chevron Corporation

Where we appear

  • BBC
  • Forbes
  • CNN
  • The Washington Post
  • CNBC
  • The Times
  • Sky News
  • Fortune
  • ITV
  • France 24

Who we are

GlobalStrat is small by design.

Two principals, both working directly with clients, with around 40 years of combined field experience across conflict zones, intelligence communities and policy circles.

Olivier Guitta, Managing Director, GlobalStrat

Olivier Guitta

Managing Director

Has briefed NATO, the US Congress, the UK Foreign Office and the European Parliament.

Hollie McKay, Research Director, GlobalStrat

Hollie McKay

Research Director

Has reported from more than 50 countries, including Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Ukraine and Sudan.

What is the decision in front of you?

We will tell you whether we can help, what a briefing would cover, and what it would take.

Speak with us