Keynote SpeakersOlivier Guitta is a Geopolitical Risk and Security Consultant with a regional specialization on Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
He is the MD of a geopolitical risk and security consultancy firm looking at global trends and events. As a result, Olivier has built a reliable and extensive source network around the world.
Olivier is ranked in the Top 250 Terrorism Experts in the World, Top 500 in National Security, Top 500 Maghreb and Top 750 Gulf Experts.
He has briefed on international affairs, geopolitical risk and security matters the European Union, the United States Congress, US presidential candidates, NATO, the UK Home Office, the UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office, the Swedish Foreign and Defence ministries, the Belgian Foreign Ministry, 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.
Olivier regularly briefs on security and geopolitical matters Members of the U.S. Congress, UK MPs and MEPs.
His clients include Sovereign Wealth Funds, private equity firms, hedge funds and asset managers, multinationals, prestigious law firms and governments in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
He also regularly briefs Chief Security Officers from the largest companies in the world.
His writings on international affairs and security issues have been published in a range of prestigious outlets, including The Times, Le Monde, Forbes, The Daily Beast, Jane’s Weekly, Fox News, National Post, National Interest, The National, Le Temps (Switzerland), De Morgen (Belgium).
Furthermore, Olivier is also a Columnist for the Dubai-based Akhbar and al-Aan TV.
Olivier provides expert insight on a regular basis 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.
Olivier wrote the Libya chapter in the John Hopkins-SAIS book “Paradigm in the Mediterranean”.
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.
Olivier Guitta – Keynote Speaker:
As a keynote speaker, Olivier’s speaking topics include:
- Fight for Supremacy in the World: Russia, China, the US, EU and Non-state Actors
- The Middle East on Fire
- The West at Risk because of its Foreign Policy
- Will Turbulent Geopolitics spell Trouble for the Economy and Financial Markets?
- Security and Terrorism on our Streets
- Investing in Dangerous Regions
- Africa, the Next Frontier?
- Terrorism Hotspots and Trends
