The Sweeney Agency Speaker News
July 11, 2012 |
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Geopolitics & Your Business
Ask yourself this question - what would the closure of the Strait of Hormuz do to your daily business operations? Oil prices would shoot up tripling transportation costs for you, your suppliers, your staff and your clients. Do you and your team have a plan to respond to a crisis like that?
If Russia uses their energy resources to assert more influence on Europe how will that change Europe's trade relationship with the US? Do you have suppliers or key clients or even investments that are vulnerable to changes in European trade ?
Understanding World events and their implications on the global economy is a key part of managing any business in 2012. A riot in the Middle East can spill on to twitter in minutes, strengthen on Facebook in hours, and in perhaps a day disrupt your logistics or investments or even your safety.
Dr. George Friedman and his team at STRATFOR are the global leaders on strategic intelligence, providing insights to clients on global business, economic, security and geopolitical affairs. Using STRATFOR's impressive resources, Dr. Friedman and his team can pull together a fascinating customized presentation that highlights what Strafor believes are the major geopolitical challenges and threats to your organization. This presentation will open your eyes to both the global dynamics and threats facing your company as well as the strategies you need to develop to be able to respond.
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 Dr. George Friedman
Dr. George Friedman is the Chief Executive Officer and founder of STRATFOR. Since 1996 Dr. Friedman has driven the strategic vision guiding STRATFOR to global prominence in private geopolitical intelligence and forecasting. A very popular keynote speaker on the future of international politics and economics, Dr. Friedman is in high demand at numerous conferences and industry-specific events for major financial firms such as JP Morgan, Citibank, Ernst & Young and many Fortune 500 companies.
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 Peter Zeihan
Peter Zeihan oversees the day-to-day operations of global political intelligence firm STRATFOR's analytical staff, integrating the firm's myriad sources of information into a variety of products for STRATFOR clientele. Prior to joining STRATFOR, Mr. Zeihan worked with the U.S. Embassy in Canberra, Australia, and was formerly Susan Eisenhower's office coordinator while with the Center for Political and Strategic Studies in Washington, D.C.
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 Scott Stewart
Scott Stewart oversees Stratfor's security team and its analytic efforts on issues around the globe. He also consults with clients on security-related issues affecting their organizations or personal safety and oversees Stratfor's extensive coverage of the security environment in Mexico and closely monitors Mexican drug cartels, their areas of influence and their drug trafficking routes. Mr. Stewart is a former special agent with the U.S. State Department and was involved in hundreds of terrorism investigations, most notably the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
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 Reva Bhalla
Reva Bhalla is STRATFOR's Vice President of Strategic Intelligence. Ms. Bhalla joined STRATFOR in 2004 and developed her expertise in the Middle East, South Asian and Latin American affairs. As a senior global analyst, Ms. Bhalla plays an integral role in applying a forward-looking, strategic lens to STRATFOR's coverage of global events.
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 Fred Burton
Fred Burton is one of the world's foremost authorities on security and terrorism. Mr. Burton oversees Stratfor's terrorism intelligence service. Mr. Burton is author of the best-selling memoir, GHOST: Confessions of a Counterterrorism Agent, the story of his role in the fight against the burgeoning terrorist threat in the 1980s and beyond. His new book, Chasing Shadows: A Special Agent's Lifelong Hunt to Bring a Cold War Assassin to Justice, follows his 35 year old quest to solve the murder of an Israeli diplomat assassinated in his childhood neighborhood.
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 Rodger Baker
Rodger Baker is a leading expert on geopolitics andinternational affairs. He leads a global team of analysts, focusing on topics ranging from global political and economic affairs to U.S.-Chinese relations to East Asian politics. At Stratfor, Mr. Baker writes and oversees the production of articles for the company's website and special reports for clients around the world, keeping them apprised of events of vital interest to their businesses and organizations.
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 Robert Kaplan
Robert D. Kaplan is Chief Geopolitical Analyst for STRATFOR, a private intelligence firm, and a non-resident senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security in Washington, D.C., and has been a foreign correspondent for The Atlantic for over a quarter-century. In 2011, Kaplan was chosen by Foreign Policy magazine as among the world's Top 100 Global Thinkers. He is the author of Monsoon: The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power.
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 Nathan Hughes
Nathan Hughes oversees Stratfor's tactical team and its analytic efforts on issues around the globe. He is also a military expert, covering global defense issues and providing military context for wider geopolitical analysis. This includes both on-going military conflict and emerging trends, from the war in Afghanistan to strategic weapons systems, naval developments and the weaponization of space.
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